Paris Facebook has prevented a French man with an incurable illness from streaming his own death on the social media site, according to a company statement.
Liz Cheney calls Matt Gaetz allegations ‘sickening’ but stops short of calling for his resignation
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Washington Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, called allegations against Rep. Matt Gaetz "sickening" on Sunday, but stopped short of calling for the resignation of the Florida Republican, who's faci...
Georgiev stops 31 shots, Rangers beat Islanders 4-1
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Mika Zibanejad and K'Andre Miller also scored and Artemi Panarin had two assists for the Rangers, who have won four of six (4-1-1). Georgiev improved to 7-1-0 in eight starts against the Islanders. He has allowed two...
Pa. woman stabbed by man selling fridge on Facebook Marketplace, cops say
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Denise Williams, 54, suffered a "violent death" Monday when she went to check out the appliance put up for sale on Facebook Marketplace by a Geistown man, according to Cambria County Coroner Jeff Lees. "She did put u...
French Open postponed by a week because of pandemic
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The clay-court Grand Slam tournament was set to start on May 23, but first-round matches will now get underway on May 30. The French tennis federation said the decision was taken in order to maximize chances the even...
California truck driver stops high-speed police chase with murder suspect
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Ahmed Shabaan said he was in his big-rig truck in the Pomona area, east of Los Angeles, on Tuesday night when he got word of the police chase -- and that it involved a murder suspect -- and decided to help by blockin...
PolitiFact admits CBS ‘could’ have ‘deceptively edited’ DeSantis remarks, stops short of stating it as fact
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The Sunday newsmagazine show has received intense backlash from conservatives over its report accusing DeSantis of taking part in a "pay-for-play" scheme by granting grocery store chain Publix coronavirus vaccine dis...
Justice Clarence Thomas suggests US should regulate Facebook, Google and Twitter
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Justice Clarence Thomas suggested on Monday that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that, he said, have come to have "unbridled control" over "unprecede...
‘Black Widow’ joins the streaming battle, but nobody’s sure what winning looks like
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Wonder Woman, Mulan and now Black Widow have all been enlisted to help power streaming services. Yet despite that high-profile roster of heroes, it's a battle the studios deploying them appear somewhat conflicted ab...
‘Calls’ dials streaming TV back to what creepily feels like radio drama
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The newish medium of streaming is perhaps inevitably taking TV to its logical endpoint -- namely, a weird return back to radio. At least, that's the sense watching (or really, listening to) "Calls," an Apple TV+ thr...
Academy Awards 2021: In a year of streaming, the Oscars should go with the flow
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The Oscar nominations reflect the breadth of quality work produced and released in what was by any measure a difficult, terrible year for the movie industry. Viewers can now flock to the streaming services of their ...
To help people find Covid-19 vaccines, Facebook debuts new features
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Facebook is rolling out a handful of new tools on its platforms to help people get vaccinated against Covid-19. The tech giant, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, announced on Monday that it will use its platforms t...