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Democrat Gil Cisneros pulls further ahead of Republican Young Kim, putting GOP House seat in peril

Democrat Gil Cisneros extended his lead over Republican Young Kim on Friday in California’s 39th Congressional District, depressing the GOP’s prospects for retaining its last House seat in Orange County.

Updated vote tallies released by election officials in Los Angeles and Orange counties showed…

Facebook seeks to patent software for figuring out who lives together and profiling the household

Facebook Inc. is applying to patent software that it could use to create profiles of users’ households by making educated guesses about how many people live in the household, what their relationships to each other are, what interests they share and what electronic devices they use.

The system would…

New Yorkers Fear Using Public Benefits After Trump Threatens Policy Change

How cruel and inhuman can he be? We are finding out. It is wrong! It is evil. New Yorkers Fear Using Public Benefits After Trump Threatens Policy Change

As yet another wave of Trump-induced panic ripples through immigrant communities, some New Yorkers are opting out of food stamps, Medicaid, housing assistance, and other public benefits to which they’re legally entitled, out of fear that taking advantage of them will negatively impact their immigration status or that of a family member. [ more › ]

‘Moai are family’: Easter Island people to head to London to request statue back

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Delegation from island, backed by Chilean government, will ask for return of statue British Museum acquired in 1869

Towering at the entrance of the British Museum’s Wellcome gallery is a 2.5-metre basalt statue from Easter Island. For indigenous Rapa Nui islanders, such statues – known as moai – carry the spirit of prominent ancestors and are considered the living incarnation of their relatives.

Next week, a delegation from the island – which has been part of Chile since 1888 and is officially known as Rapa Nui – will travel to London to request the moai’s return, emboldened by the backing of the Chilean government and the museum’s willingness to engage in talks for the first time since it acquired the statue in 1869.

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Facebook told us it wasn’t a typical big, bad company. It is | Jessica Powell

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The tech giant claimed to be bringing the world together for the benefit of humanity. The truth is far less palatable

Facebook, like so many companies in Silicon Valley, has always told us it was a different kind of company. Not so much a business really, but a social utility. That it was linking the world for the benefit of democracy, friendship and human connection.

Related: Facebook’s pretensions have turned it into a useful idiot of the right

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