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Byline: Liz Goodwin Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) suggested at a rally in Nevada this month that Black people are criminals. A day later in Arizona, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) [...]

Byline: Geoffrey A. Fowler Elon Musk wants to use his billions to remake Twitter as a 'platform for free speech around the globe.' He says he'll stop it from censoring [...]

The same information revolution that brought us Netflix, podcasts and the knowledge of the world in our smartphone-gripping hands has also undermined American democracy. There can be no doubt that [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski, Gerrit De Vynck, Niha Masih and Shibani Mahtani In February 2019, not long before India's general election, a pair of Facebook employees set up a dummy account [...]

Pauline Harmange is adjusting to the success and backlash of her debut book, one of a handful of titles from France that suggest a more frank approach to sexism and [...]

Officials have long atoned for their racist and inappropriate comments. But unlike years past, when apologies might have been enough, they have also been asked to step down. On a [...]

Byline: Michael Brice-Saddler A Minnesota congressman on Tuesday said those aligned with Black Lives Matter in protest of police brutality are 'at war' with 'western culture' - language advocacy groups [...]

Byline: Emily Yahr In April 2018, Bravo's 'Vanderpump Rules' star Stassi Schroeder went on a podcast and told a story about how she and her co-star, Kristen Doute, called the [...]

One wrote about being asked to move out by a landlord in Europe. Others described fleeing China to escape the epidemic. The coronavirus outbreak has radiated to at least 77 [...]

For Print Use Only. This appeared in Saturday's Washington Post. - - - Eight Chinese doctors expressed concern about a new sickness in Wuhan in December and were reprimanded for [...]

HONG KONG -- Ask the Anti-Defamation League, and they will tell you Pepe the Frog is a hate symbol, a cheerleader of racism and anti-Semitism, a friend of alt-right extremists. [...]

In Philadelphia, the police commissioner pulled 72 officers from the streets and said some would be fired. In Phoenix, the chief gave some officers ''nonenforcement'' duty. In St. Louis, the [...]

When Martin and Mart Helme were sworn in as lawmakers in the Estonian Parliament this week, they accompanied their broad grins with a gesture -- making a circle with the [...]

Byline: the Monitor's Editorial Board Abstract: In the world's most-populous Muslim country, Indonesia, the leading Muslim group asks the faithful to end the use of a religious slur - to [...]

Byline: Felicia SonmezWASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., should resign from Congress or give up her seats on congressional committees following her suggestion on [...]

JACKSON, Miss. -- When Mike Espy, the Democrat challenging Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, faced his opponent at a debate ahead of this Tuesday's runoff election, he had to make [...]

Byline: Fred Bowen Trea Turner, shortstop for the Washington Nationals, became the most recent Major League Baseball (MLB) player to get into trouble for his Twitter account. Turner posted tweets [...]

Byline: Paul Schwartzman WASHINGTON - District of Columbia Council member Trayon White Sr. recently volunteered a theory to explain why his community on Washington's eastern edge and other African-American neighborhoods [...]

AT&T, one of the nation's biggest marketers, has yet to return to YouTube nearly a year after pulling its advertising from the platform because of concerns that it could appear [...]

LONDON -- The Czech president has called Muslim immigrants criminals. The head of Poland's governing party has said refugees are riddled with disease. The leader of Hungary has described migrants [...]

A top aide to Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas resigned on Thursday after posting a Facebook message that mocked the #MeToo movement against sexual assault and harassment. The aide, [...]

No sooner had Britons found some sorely needed trans-Atlantic cheer in the engagement of their prince charming to an American actress than President Trump dashed it all with his baffling [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Trump touched off another racially charged furor on Wednesday by sharing videos from a fringe British ultranationalist group purportedly showing Muslims committing acts of violence, a move [...]

Byline: Lucía Martínez Valdivia At Reed College in Oregon, where I work, a group of students began protesting the required first-year humanities course a year ago. Three times a week, [...]

Richard B. Spencer, a prominent white nationalist, is scheduled to speak at the University of Florida on Thursday, prompting an outcry over whether his views are protected speech, dividing the [...]

I've watched the N.F.L. on ESPN for more than 20 years in part because I grew up with the kind of father who pretty much refused to talk to me [...]

Byline: Molly Roberts Happy New Year! Or not. On the first full day of Rosh Hashanah, unmasked CIA officer Valerie Plame tweeted out an article entitled, 'America's Jews are driving [...]

Tournament organizers devised a wide-reaching plan to stop the chant. They enlisted players to read a pledge about fans' setting an example for children, and they empowered stadium security officials [...]

Byline: Susan Hogan Earlier this month, GuideStar, the world's largest source for information about charities, added a new feature to its website: warning labels flagging would-be donors to nearly four [...]

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- It started with a suggestion that white students and professors leave campus for a day, a twist on a tradition of black students voluntarily doing the same. [...]

TORONTO -- Baseball teams have long used the ceremonial first pitch to celebrate a player from their past, or a current cause. So the Toronto Blue Jays commemorated the start [...]

There was a time when IBM was a monopolistic giant that looked indestructible. And there was a time when Microsoft looked like the tech company that could never be beaten. [...]

When Google acquired YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, it was considered a pricey gamble, one made with the belief that an online service known for pirated videos and vapid [...]

AT&T and Johnson & Johnson, among the biggest advertisers in the United States, were among several companies to say Wednesday that they would stop their ads from running on YouTube [...]

Byline: Abby Ohlheiser On Tuesday night, Twitter permanently banned the conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos as it cracked down on a wave of racist abuse targeting the 'Ghostbusters' actor Leslie Jones. [...]

WASHINGTON -- There is a federal law that allows the government to discriminate against messages that may disparage people, even the dead, as well as ''institutions, beliefs or national symbols.'' [...]

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''Is there anyone who's not ready for me to sign this contract?'' Jeremy, the chief executive of a small manufacturing company, held up a pen and looked around the room. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFacebook on Tuesday acknowledged that its systems to identify and remove hate speech had not worked effectively, as it faced pressure from feminist groups that want the site to [...]

The Rangers are down 3-0 in their N.H.L. playoff series; the Grizzlies, 2-0, in the N.B.A. playoffs. But no one was as deep in a hole, or hazard, as the [...]

After broadcasting an audio clip on the ''Today'' show about George Zimmerman last month that hit the trifecta of being misleading, incendiary and dead-bang wrong, NBC News management took serious [...]

OTTAWA - Over the last quarter century, ''Money for Nothing'' by Dire Straits has moved from the Top 40 to the playlists of classic rock stations all over the world. [...]