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Mr. LaCorte acknowledged in an interview this week that he operated the hyperpartisan sites with help from young Macedonians and American editors. He uses them, he said, to drive Facebook traffic to his flagship venture, LaCorte News, a “centrist-right” website that he brands as a “digital news start-up with the stated goal of restoring faith […]

Internet connectivity trickles back in Iran after government shut down access to rest of the world By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer November 21, 2019, 8:21 PM 1 min read Internet connectivity is trickling back in Iran after the government shut down access to the rest of the world for more than four days. The

A 16-year-old boy became the first person killed while riding a shared electric scooter in New Jersey when he collided with a tow truck in Elizabeth on Wednesday night. The boy, identified by a city official as Nelson Miranda Gomez, was riding one of 150 Lime scooters that were made available for public rental in

In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low. Instead the milestone was relegated to a lone figure at the bottom of a government press release and went

WeWork said on Thursday that it was laying off 2,400 employees around the world, a move that comes weeks after huge losses at the co-working company brought it close to financial collapse. The layoffs are equivalent to nearly 20 percent of the 12,500 employees WeWork said it had at the end of June. The company

Netflix went down for thousands of users on Thursday November 21, 2019, 4:18 PM 1 min read Netflix suffered a brief outage Thursday. The problems at the TV and movie streaming site started a little before 9 a.m., according to downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages. It received more than 1,100 reports of problems at

When Deb Fink heard about a company that could drive her 9-year-old son to his after-school program, she balked at the idea of putting him in a car with a stranger. But faced with the unrelenting pressure of driving him where he needed to go in the middle of her workday, she decided to give

Former Vice President Al Gore kicks off “24 Hours of Reality,” featuring climate change presentations around the globe By TRAVIS LOLLER Associated Press November 21, 2019, 11:51 AM 4 min read Former Vice President Al Gore said that even though President Donald Trump wants to back out of the Paris Climate Agreement, the U.S. cannot

FILE – This July 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter office building in San Francisco. Social media companies have vowed to tackle misinformation in politics. Social media companies have vowed to tackle misinformation in politics. But when Britain’s Conservative Party changed its press office Twitter account Tuesday, Nov. 19, to

Payments platform PayPal says it is buying Honey Science Corp., a shopping and rewards company, for $4 billion November 20, 2019, 10:27 PM 1 min read Payments platform PayPal says it is buying shopping and rewards company Honey Science Corp. for $4 billion. Founded in 2012, Honey helps people find online coupons and discounts while