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Written by: Alex Kasprak
March 16, 2018
While there have been promising developments in the effort to create an artificial, implantable ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 13, 2018
A junior high instructor was accused of feeding a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
Written by: Arturo Garcia
March 9, 2018
Sam Ballard contracted "rat lungworm" after eating a slug when he was 19 years old.
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 7, 2018
Robert Ussery and Jodi Mann have been stalking mass shooting victims and survivors for months.
Written by: Bethania Palma
March 6, 2018
The pair have spent months stalking families of victims and their communities in a failed attemp ...
Written by: David Mikkelson
March 3, 2018
A New York City college is trying to evict a former student who it says is illegally squatting i ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 27, 2018
Although we don't know if people using social media to harass massacre survivors are all NRA mem ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 26, 2018
The chief executive visited Maddy Wilford in the hospital shortly after a high school shooting t ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 23, 2018
George Soros, a billionaire philanthropist and constant target of right-wing conspiracy theories ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 22, 2018
Burt Minor, a candidate for the Illinois state legislature, reportedly asked a black GOP candida ...
Written by: Dan Evon
Feb. 22, 2018
The time it takes varies from state to state, but you can buy an assault rifle in less than an h ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 21, 2018
Both Twitter and Medium implemented changes that led to various accounts being deleted or suspended.
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 21, 2018
Why do the same sets of shooting conspiracy theories and tropes appear every time there is a hor ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 19, 2018
A shady web site promised a cure for the supposedly imminent plague to members who pay a $74 fee.
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 16, 2018
The 37-page indictment details a sophisticated effort to leverage social media to manipulate Ame ...
Written by: Bethania Palma
Feb. 16, 2018
A report by McClatchy revealed that the FBI is looking into whether a Russian banker with Kremli ...
Written by: Kim LaCapria
Feb. 15, 2018
A number of unverified claims about the Parkland school shooting spread on social media in its i ...
Written by: Dan MacGuill
Feb. 15, 2018
After a mass shooting at a Florida school, comedy writer Bess Kalb made a powerful point about c ...
Written by: Arturo Garcia
Feb. 14, 2018
The head of one advocacy group says the program hinges on an "antiquated" idea about people enro ...
Written by: Alex Kasprak
Feb. 12, 2018
His comments were reportedly a reference to the legal tradition of common law that the American ...
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