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China paid Facebook and Twitter to help spread anti-Muslim propaganda
A Uighur woman beside a propaganda painting showing soldiers meeting with a Uighur family, in China’s northwest Xinjiang region. | Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images One of
9 questions about the Hong Kong protests you were too embarrassed to ask
A protestor outside the British Consulate General during a demonstration in Hong Kong, on June 26, 2019. | LightRocket via Getty Images Why is Hong
“In a perfect world, they’d be running mates”: New Hampshire voters are torn between Sanders and Warren
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters during a campaign stop and town hall at Toad Hill Farm in Franconia, New Hampshire, August 14,
Scientists weighed all the mass in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s mind-boggling.
The Milky Way has a mass of 1.5 trillion suns. We have no idea what most of it is made of. Something weird is happening
More than half of House Democrats now support opening an impeachment inquiry against Trump
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answered questions and pushed back on the need for an impeachment inquiry during her weekly news conference at the US Capitol.
Elizabeth Warren’s criminal justice reform plan, explained
Elizabeth Warren speaks at a town hall event in Aiken, South Carolina, on August 17, 2019. | Sean Rayford/Getty Images Elizabeth Warren says Americans should
Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus, calls out Marvel Comics for its “apolitical” politics
Spiegelman in 2012. | Bertrand Langlois/AFP/Getty Images The Pulitzer-winning author says an editorial policy prevented him from calling Donald Trump an “Orange Skull.” Marvel Comics
Vox Sentences: Planned Parenthood loses funding
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Bernie Sanders wants to ban police use of facial recognition tech
Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he would ban police use of facial recognition technology as part of his 2020 presidential platform on criminal justice reform.