A newly released Ipsos poll found that nearly half of those living in the Western world believe that democracy is “broken,” with “people feeling unrepresented particularly by their national governments,” according to Politico.
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INTERNET FREEDOM DECLINED FOR THE 15TH YEAR IN A ROW, RESEARCH GROUP SAYS
A research group in Washington released a report last week that found internet freedom declined around the world for the 15th consecutive year as “authoritarian governments employed censorship and offline repression to quash protests” organized online, with China and Myanmar considered the most repressive governments for online freedoms.
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FOR BETTER OR WORSE, AI COMES TO NEWSROOMS
News reporters and editors at major news outlets across the U.S. are learning how to use AI technology to help research projects and look up arcane facts, but newsrooms are still trying to figure out how to make sure they’re using the new tool in a responsible way.
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‘PEACEMAKER’ TRUMP CARRIES OUT MORE AIRSTRIKES IN SOMALIA
The U.S. carried out more airstrikes across Somalia last week to target al-Shabaab fighters in the southern part of the country, but had not disclosed the full extent of the damage or the number of civilians killed in these attacks.
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TRUMP’S DISAPPROVAL RATING JUMPS, AS MIDTERMS LOOM
U.S. President Donald Trump, hot off the shellacking earlier this month at the polls, which saw top contests carried by Democrats, has seen his disapproval rating jump this month, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
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‘INCREDIBLE STRETCH’ TRUMP’S JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS FENTANYL CAN BE WEAPONIZED IN ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY MURDERS ON THE HIGH SEAS
The U.S. Justice Department came up with a classified brief to approve the administration’s unlawful strikes on alleged drug boats out of Venezuela by claiming that fentanyl could be weaponized and could be seen as a potential chemical weapon, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper, citing the document, noted that the weaponization claim is......
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TRUMP’S NEW EPSTEIN HEADACHE: PEDOPHILE WRITES IN EMAIL THAT TRUMP ‘SPENT HOURS’ AT HOUSE WITH VICTIM
U.S. President Donald Trump is having a hard time getting past the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, and matters were just made even worse for the embattled president after more than 20,000 pages of emails sent from the deceased pedophile had been released last week, which included one that said Trump “spent hours at my house” with an individual identified as a victim of sex trafficking.
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IRAN WANTS U.S. TO MAKE ‘FULL REPARATION’ AFTER TRUMP ADMITS TO PLAYING A LEAD ROLE IN ISRAEL’S SNEAK ATTACK IN JUNE
Iran’s top diplomat last week called on the UN to hold the U.S. accountable for the destruction and casualties that resulted from its June war with Israel, and Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump came out and said he played a leading role in that effort.
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“JOB CREATION IS PRETTY CLOSE TO ZERO,” POWELL SAYS
The U.S. labor market might appear healthy, with a jobless rate near historic lows. However, once statistical overcounting is adjusted out of the data, “job creation is pretty close to zero,” U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said in a 15 November press briefing.
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SUPER-RICH CONSOLIDATING POWER BY BUYING UP MEDIA OUTLETS
Robert Reich, the former secretary of labor under Bill Clinton, penned an op-ed last week that highlighted the growing trend of the richest people in the U.S. buying up major media outlets and, in the process, giving them more control than ever to use their power to suppress democracy.