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Are Facebook’s “Trending Stories” Really Trending?

“Workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the

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Amnesty: Babies dying in Nigerian military detention

The United Nations Security Council has expressed concern over the terror group’s links to ISIS and is calling the summit a “crucial initiative”.

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Sanders’ West Virginia win makes up little ground on Clinton

The former secretary of state lost her party’s primary there Tuesday while businessman Donald Trump cruised to victory on the Republican ballot.

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Google to ban payday lending ads, calling industry ‘harmful’

It’s the same line being drawn by advocates of a South Dakota ballot initiative that would cap interest rates of local payday lenders. Payday loans are often used to cover

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Cruz Responds To Boehner Calling Him Lucifer: “He Didn’t Work With Me”

“I don’t have any problem with voting for Hillary”, staunch Democrat Arlene Horenovsky said.

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Dave Joerger goes from Grizzlies to Kings in two days

It was only two weeks ago that Dave Joerger was sitting on the dais in Memphis, talking about the way the Memphis Grizzlies fought their way into a playoff berth

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Man Wanted for Allegedly Shooting at Police Office

About 10:45 p.m. Saturday, a Mahomet police officer was involved in a shooting with a man identified as Dracy “Clint” Pendleton, 35. The man suspected in the shooting is Dracy

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Austin voters keep fingerprinting for Uber, Lyft drivers

Uber and Lyft spent more than $8 million in an effort to support Proposition 1.

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Student ‘spends $1m on handbags’ after bank glitch

Christine Jiaxin Lee, 21, was arrested at Sydney Airport and she still allegedly owes £1. million to her bank after the money was transferred into her Westpac account.

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Judge in Prince’s estate case authorizes DNA testing

District Judge Kevin Eide, who is overseeing the settlement of Prince’s estate, ordered that a blood sample be taken from the late singer’s body “for any objective relevant to the

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North Korea prepares for highest political gathering in 3 decades

While the agenda – and even the duration – of the event is still unknown, its main objective is widely seen as cementing Kim Jong-Un’s status as supreme leader and

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EU’s highest court upholds new restrictive law on cigarettes

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published long-awaited rules Thursday that could ban 99 percent of e-cigarette products and wreck industry innovation for years to come. That year, U.S. President

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