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An ICE Raid Leaves an Iowa Town Divided Along Faith Lines

The detention of 32 workers at a concrete plant opened fissures among the town’s churches and secular leaders, and brought an abstract national issue painfully close to home.

Facebook reveals it gave 61 companies access to widely blocked user data

they were shooting for 100/

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Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information

Facebook gave 61 businesses including Nike, Spotify, UPS and dating app Hinge special rights to access user data after blocking such access more broadly.

In written responses to the US Congress on its operations, the social network revealed it granted numerous extensions to access a user’s public profile as well as some data from their friends.

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Matteo Salvini backed by politician ‘with links to mafia’

Just like fascists of old

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Interior minister won senate seat with backing of Giuseppe Scopelliti, who is accused of having ties to ‘Ndrangheta

Matteo Salvini’s electoral victory in the southern region of Calabria during the Italian general election this year was supported by a former politician who law enforcement authorities have claimed has close ties to the ‘Ndrangheta, the criminal organisation that controls most of the cocaine trade in Europe.

The far-right interior minister and head of the League party, who has emerged as a de facto prime minister, won his senate seat in the region with the backing of a former mayor of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, with whom Salvini had a political alliance and who was arrested weeks after the March poll for forging documents while he was mayor.

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