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The Shift: Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition

Messages released publicly on Wednesday suggest the idealistic image the company promoted for years was a carefully cultivated smoke screen.

Congress has tried more than 200 times to pass an anti-lynching law. This year, it could fail again

It was nearly a century ago that Rep. Leonidas C. Dyer, a Republican from Missouri, introduced a bill to make lynching a federal crime. With vigilante slayings of African Americans rampant, it promised to force the federal government to prosecute lynch mobs for murder.

The bill wasn’t the first…

Putin threatens arms race if US dumps nuclear treaty

All fall down…

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Russia would also build new medium-range missiles if the US were to do so, says president

Vladimir Putin has threatened that Russia will develop new missiles banned by the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty if the US exits the pact and pursues an arms buildup of its own.

The Russian president’s remarks came one day after the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Moscow was in “material breach” of the cold war-era treaty and issued a 60-day ultimatum for Russia to correct the alleged violations. Otherwise, he said, the US would quit the 1987 accord, considered a milestone in reducing the threat of a nuclear war in Europe.

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Luxembourg to become first country to make all public transport free

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Government seeks to prioritise environment and end some of world’s worst traffic congestion

Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.

Fares on trains, trams and buses will be lifted next summer under the plans of the re-elected coalition government led by Xavier Bettel, who was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Wednesday.

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To Reduce Privacy Risks, the Census Plans to Report Less Accurate Data

Ah, err, umm… the Census is not taken for the benefit of scholars, it is taken to apportion voting, get an idea of where the government should be spending or not spending money… Grin. Guaranteeing people’s confidentiality has become more of a challenge, but some scholars worry that the new system will impede research.

‘Killed for speaking the truth’: nine journalists murdered in 2018

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Over 30 journalists – including Jamal Khashoggi – have been murdered so far this year. With the help of colleagues and relatives, or in their own words and pictures, we pay tribute to some of them here.

A trainee producer and presenter at Radio Azadi in Afghanistan, Durrani was one of at least nine journalists killed by a suicide bomb while making her way to work in Kabul.

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In humble Tecate, Mexico, Central American migrants find a break from caravan drama

Always liked Tecate!

The streets were silent, save for the jingle from a truck selling gas tanks to residents and a pair of men singing Mexican ballads, when Sergio Pineda left Casa del Migrante for the day.

Pineda ran to catch up with the dozen men who had just left the migrant shelter in this small border city best…