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Podcasting ‘plays a particularly outsized role’ in propagating white supremacy, a 2018 report from the Anti-Defamation League says Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the leadup to the presidential election, and expanded their efforts in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But Apple and Google, among others, have left open a major loophole for this material: Podcasts. Podcasts […]

Michael McKinney, who left the Iowa National Guard in 2017 after a five-year military career, faces 25 years in prison if convicted A white military veteran shot and wounded a 15-year-old girl when he fired his gun into a car carrying four Black teenagers during a tense confrontation at a rally in support of President Donald Trump near the Iowa Capitol last month. Michael McKinney, 25, is charged with attempted […]

Seventeen officers and supervisors were suspended for up to 20 days after being spotted resting amid looting, a police union challenging the penalties says Chicago Police suspended several officers captured on video during last summer’s widespread unrest who were lounging — and apparently even sleeping — inside a burglarized congressional campaign office as people citywide vandalized and stole from businesses, a police union official said Thursday. Fraternal Order of Police […]

Seven passengers suffered minor injuries after one part of the articulated bus fell 50 feet onto a highway ramp The driver of a New York City bus that plunged off a bridge has been suspended after refusing to submit to a drug and alcohol test, a regional transit agency said Saturday. The 55-year-old driver has been “withheld from service without pay” following the dramatic crash, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said […]