Amazon has told Parler, a social media app that's become popular among conservatives and far-right extremists, that it would be cut off from its Amazon Web Services hosting by midnight Pacific Time on Sunday, BuzzFeed first reported and Amazon confirmed to Axios.Driving the news: Earlier Saturday, Apple said it had suspended Parler from its App…...
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Sign up for the Guardian’s First Thing newsletter Efforts to remove Donald Trump from the White House gathered pace on Saturday, as Democrats announced that at least 180 members of Congress would co-sponsor an article of impeachment they intend to introduce in the House of Representatives on Monday. The show of force by the president’s…...
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NPR's Michel Martin discusses domestic extremism and counterterrorism with Mary McCord, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to go back now to the questions of accountability and the way forward after the violence at the Capitol Wednesday. In recent years, far-right…...
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That happened fast. Image: Hollie Adams / getty By Jack Morse2021-01-09 21:23:24 UTC UPDATE: Jan. 9, 2021, 7:50 p.m. EST Apple announced it has suspended Parler. In a statement provided to Mashable, the company wrote: "We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on…...
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire’s highest court sided with the television show “North Woods Law” on Friday in a legal dispute with a couple whose blurred faces were featured on the program in 2018. The New Hampshire Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling in favor of the couple, who sued after they appeared…...
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NPR's Michel Martin discusses domestic extremism and counterterrorism with Mary McCord, legal director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to go back now to the questions of accountability and the way forward after the violence at the Capitol Wednesday. In recent years, far-right…...
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That happened fast. Image: Hollie Adams / getty By Jack Morse2021-01-09 21:23:24 UTC UPDATE: Jan. 9, 2021, 7:50 p.m. EST Apple announced it has suspended Parler. In a statement provided to Mashable, the company wrote: "We have always supported diverse points of view being represented on the App Store, but there is no place on…...
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire’s highest court sided with the television show “North Woods Law” on Friday in a legal dispute with a couple whose blurred faces were featured on the program in 2018. The New Hampshire Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling in favor of the couple, who sued after they appeared…...
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CLOSE Republicans and Democrats share firsthand accounts as pro-Trump supports stormed the U.S. Capitol. USA TODAYPresident Donald Trump urged a Georgia election investigator to "find the fraud" in a phone call last month, raising new questions about his effort to pressure local leaders to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election.Trump called the state’s lead…...
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Pollution Control Board serves notice on municipality Unauthorised dumping of waste near the collection yard at North Kalamassery. | Photo Credit: Thulasi Kakkat Pollution Control Board serves notice on municipality The increasing incidents of illegal waste dumping in Kalamassery municipality has come under the scanner of the State Level Monitoring Committee (SLMC) on solid…...
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