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Twitter, Spotify and Netflix Among Websites Downed in Massive Internet Outage
If you had trouble reading your Twitter timeline or listening to your favorite Spotify playlist Friday morning, you are not alone. Major sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, Netflix and Etsy were down Friday morning after hackers unleashed a major distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attack on servers at Dyn, a major DNS host. Domain…
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T-Mobile Punished for Misleading Customers About 'Unlimited Data' Plans
T-Mobile has come to an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to pay at least $48 million for not telling its customers that there were actually limits to its highly publicized unlimited-data plans. The settlement, announced Wednesday, is a result of an FCC investigation that began last year into whether the mobile carrier had adequately…
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Federal Magistrate Judge Sides With Transgender Teen in Ill. Bathroom Case
A federal magistrate judge has recommended that a transgender teen be allowed to use the girls’ locker room at her high school. The Washington Post reports that “Student A,” a transgender girl at Fremd High School in Illinois’ Palatine Township, is at the center of a lawsuit brought on by four female students, one male…
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DOJ Proposes Citizens Advisory Commission in North Charleston, S.C.
Seeking to improve relationships between the community and police, a proposal for a citizen’s advisory committee will be presented to North Charleston next month. The U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Office will present the proposal for the North Charleston Citizen’s Advisory Commission on Community/Police Relations Nov. 4 at Royal Baptist Church in North Charleston,…
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BuzzFeed CEO: I Heard Ivanka Trump Talk About 'Mulatto C–k'
Editor’s note: This post contains a tweet that some may find offensive. Ivanka Trump once told a group of friends drinking in a bar that although she had never seen “a mulatto c—k,” she would like to, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti alleges. Peretti tweeted that little tidbit in response to a BuzzFeed News report that Ivanka Trump…
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Police Officer Who Killed Walter Scott Wants Change of Venue for Trial
The former North Charleston, S.C., police officer charged in the death of a black motorist is asking the court for a change of venue in his state trial. The Charleston Post and Courier reports that attorneys for Michael Slager filed a motion Tuesday asking the court to move Slager’s state murder trial out of Charleston.…
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Report: Student Loan Debt Up 4 Percent
Undergraduate students are leaving school with an average of $30,000 in student loan debt, a new study shows. Consumerist reports that the latest annual student debt survey from the Institute for College Access & Success found that nearly 7 out of 10 seniors graduating from four-year public and nonprofit colleges in 2015 owed an average…
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Facial-Recognition Technology Affects African Americans More Often
A Georgetown University think tank and the American Civil Liberties Union, along with 52 other civil liberties organizations, are urging the U.S. Department of Justice to look into the way federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies use face-recognition technology, which they say is having a “disparate impact on communities of color.” On Tuesday the Georgetown…
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2 Inmates Have Died in ‘Preventable Deaths’ at Striking Prisons
Two prison inmates have died at two separate facilities where inmates were participating in a national prison strike, and organizers say the deaths were preventable. Charles Lee Johnson died Oct. 10 at Kinross Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Mich., and his death is being investigated by police, BuzzFeed News reports. Last month, 400 Kinross inmates took…
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Police Shoot and Kill Man in Benton Harbor, Mich.
Officers responding to a 911 call shot and killed a man early Tuesday morning in Benton Harbor, Mich. The South Bend Tribune reports that four officers arrived at a house at 2:17 a.m. after receiving a report that someone was being held at gunpoint inside. Three of the officers approached the house, and one stayed…
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