Fake news study links 2016 Obama vote to misinformation
Ohio State researchers find that belief in fake news stories may have lowered Clinton support among Obama voters in 2016. About 26 percent believed at least one false claim, with 11 percent of defections attributed to fake news after adjusting for other factors.
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Barack Obama
Clinton
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Erik Nisbet
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Fifty Years On Black Economic Inequality Persists
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis while supporting sanitation workers, data show continued economic injustice. An Economic Policy Institute report notes stagnant black homeownership about 40 percent, unemployment around 7.5 percent, high imprisonment rates, and a widening wage gap, with poverty at 27 percent.
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Economic Policy Institute
America
EPI
State of Working America
U S plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week
Washington aims to impose sanctions on Russian oligarchs under a law linked to Moscow’s 2016 election meddling. The move targets elites close to President Putin as the Trump administration seeks accountability amid rising tensions and the Mueller inquiry. Russia sought a UN Security Council meeting over the Skripal poisoning.
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Moscow
Russia
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Sergei Skripal
U.N
Vassily Nebenzia
New York
Britain
Shooting survivor Anthony Borges leaves hospital after shootings
Fort Lauderdale teen Anthony Borges, 15, spoke from his Parkland bedroom about feeling good weeks after being shot five times at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He appeared on NBC Today after release from Broward Health Medical Center. nine surgeries so far with more healing ahead per his attorney.
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