January 2020

Elizabeth Warren’s Iowa Pivot: From Her Plans to Her Plan to Win

Since the October debate, when Ms. Warren’s rivals attacked her policy vision, arguing that she had not adequately explained her health care proposals and that “big, structural change” was too politically risky, her campaign has yet to fully recover. And quietly, a campaign that has made few drastic changes over the course of a year […]

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Twitter Reminds David Schwimmer About ‘Living Single’ After His ‘Friends’ Remarks

David Schwimmer recently addressed the diversity problem in “Friends” and suggested that there should be an all-Black version of the popular sitcom. But Twitter users were quick to remind the actor about “Living Single,” a show that predated “Friends.” During an interview with The Guardian published Monday, Schwimmer, who played Ross in “Friends,” shared that he

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Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit

Facebook said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay $550 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology in Illinois, giving privacy groups a major victory that again raised questions about the social network’s data-mining practices. The case stemmed from Facebook’s photo-labeling service, Tag Suggestions, which uses face-matching software

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To Senate Republicans, a Vote for Witnesses Is a Vote for Trouble

WASHINGTON — In the end, the impeachment calculation nearly all Senate Republicans are making is fairly simple: They would rather look like they ignored relevant evidence than plunge the Senate into an unpredictable, open-ended inquiry that would anger President Trump and court political peril. As Republicans on Wednesday lined up behind blocking witnesses in the

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How the Fed Chairman Is Shielding It From Trump

Interest rates have fallen to historic lows, leaving policymakers with limited room to control the economy by cutting borrowing costs. The problem demands pre-emptive solutions, which officials are expected to announce in mid-2020. For example, the Fed could formally embrace periods of slightly higher inflation. But inflation remains a dirty word in much of America,

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Barbie Debuts An Even More Inclusive Line of Dolls, Including One With Vitiligo

HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Prices and availability subject to change. HuffPost Barbie just dropped its latest line of inclusive dolls, and the doll with vitiligo is already available.  The doll aisles that you might have grown up seeing, with rows of blonde, blue-eyed Barbies, are a-changing. While

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