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Attorney General William Barr’s enthusiastic support for President Donald Trump’s law and order agenda during the final months of a presidential campaign is sparking debate about the appropriate role of his department in electoral politics.  When Trump visited Kenosha, Wisconsin, last Tuesday to tour damaged businesses and to announce more than $40 million in emergency funding for public safety for Kenosha and Wisconsin, he brought Barr with him.

Tennessee Senators say President Biden has resettled more than 18,300 migrant children across the United States in two months.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former hedge fund CEO David McCormick conceded the Republican primary in Pennsylvania for U.S. Senate to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, ending his campaign Friday night as he acknowledged an ongoing statewide recount wouldn't give him enough votes to make up the deficit.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Texas' voter ID law has a "discriminatory" effect on minorities in a victory for President Barack Obama, whose administration took the unusual step of bringing the weight of the U.S. Justice Department to fight a wave of new ballot-box restrictions passed in conservative statehouses.

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Police said Monday night that the man accused of hitting another person with his vehicle outside a Vancouver bar and driving away over the weekend has turned himself in. Charles R. Holliday-Smith, 30, turned himself in Monday afternoon, police said. The crash left Shane Moon in the hospital.

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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy insisted that Democrats and Republicans negotiate without President Biden to find how Congress can reach a compromise on gun reform legislation.

Wired website has the results of a study by two scientists at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology that shows the algorithm used by Google in its search engine could accidentally determine the outcome of a close presidential race.Specifically, the ranking of negative and positive stories about a particular candidate vastly influences the decision on whom to vote for by individual voters.IMAGINE AN ELECTION—A close one. You’re undecided. So you type the name of one of the candidates into your search engine of choice. (Actually, let’s not be coy here. In most of the world, one search engine dominates; in Europe and North America, it’s Google.) And Google coughs up, in fractions of a second, articles and facts about that candidate. Great! Now you are an informed voter, right? But a study published this week says that the order of those results, the ranking of positive or negative stories on the screen, can have an enormous influence on the way you vote. And if the election is close enough, the effect could be profound enough to change the outcome.In other words: Google’s ranking algorithm for search results could accidentally steal the presidency. “We estimate, based on win margins in national elections around the world,” says Robert Epstein, a psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and one of the study’s authors, “that Google could determine the outcome of upwards of 25 percent of all national elections.”Epstein’s paper combines a few years’ worth of experiments in which Epstein and his colleague Ronald Robertson gave people access to information about the race for prime minister in Australia in 2010, two years prior, and then let the mock-voters learn about the candidates via a simulated search engine that displayed real articles.One group saw positive articles about one candidate first; the other saw positive articles about the other candidate. (A control group saw a random assortment.) The result: Whichever side people saw the positive results for, they were more likely to vote for—by more than 48 percent. The team calls that number the “vote manipulation power,” or VMP. The effect held—strengthened, even—when the researchers swapped in a single negative story into the number-four and number-three spots. Apparently it made the results seem even more neutral and therefore more trustworthy.Google's algorithm is proprietary, so forget about anyone seeing it to determine the cause of this effect. But it would be interesting to see if one party or the other was usually or always negatively impacted by the ranking of search results.The rankings of positive and negative stories are a by-product of the algorithm -- not the intent of Google managers. But could Google -- or a campaign -- actually game the system to manipulate a desired result?What they call the “search engine manipulation effect,” though, works on undecided voters, swing voters. It’s a method of persuasion.Again, though, it doesn’t require a conspiracy. It’s possible that, as Epstein says, “if executives at Google had decided to study the things we’re studying, they could easily have been flipping elections to their liking with no one having any idea.” But simultaneously more likely and more science-fiction-y is the possibility that this—oh, let’s call it “googlemandering,” why don’t we?—is happening without any human intervention at all. “These numbers are so large that Google executives are irrelevant to the issue,” Epstein says. “If Google’s search algorithm, just through what they call ‘organic processes,’ ends up favoring one candidate over another, that’s enough. In a country like India, that could send millions of votes to one candidate.”Conservatives have been claiming for years that Google has an anti-conservative bias. But in recent years, Google has been contributing to conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society. Of course, that doesn't mean much, but it raises questions as to whether Google's bias against conservatives and conservative issues translates into a deliberate effort to create an algorithm that would penalize the right when it comes to elections.I don't even know if that's possible. People use Google to search for everything from baby clothes to candidates' positions on issues. Could they actually write a program that would always rank negative stories about conservative candidates first?There's no doubt Google, the company, has a liberal bias. But whether they could -- or would -- consciously use their search engine to advance their agenda can't be proved and would seem to be impossible.

On November 13, a 24-year-old North Korean soldier, known only by his surname Oh, commandeered a jeep and sped toward the De-Militarized Zone that for 64 years has separated his Communist homeland from the democratic capitalist South. As he approached the border, the young man abandoned the vehicle and scrambled on foot toward the line of control. North Korean soldiers began firing on him. He was hit five or six times before collapsing onto South Korean ground. Transported to a hospital in Suwon, near Seoul, doctors performed emergency surgery. They discovered and extracted parasitic worms from his small intestine ...

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The defense team representing Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz in the case of a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, asked the judge to withdraw herself from the case.

By now you probably know about the disastrous and obscene poisonous toxins that the EPA stupidly released into a scenic and beautiful Colorado river. But you may not have heard about why some peopl...

Two weeks ago, it seemed that former President Bill Clinton was finished as a public figure.

In a video that's quickly going viral, an outraged woman confronted an employee behind a counter at a spa and demanded to know why a naked man was allowed to enter a female-only section — in front of young girls.What are the details?Instagram user cubanaangel — who claimed the cellphone video is her...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) deleted a recommendation for travelers to wear masks in its guidance on the monkeypox virus, citing "confusion."

President Trump set off a firestorm for retweeting three videos showing violent attacks and actions by Muslims, posted by Britain First?s Jayda Fransen. In case you missed them, here they are. VIDEO: Muslim migrant beats up Dutch boy on crutches! pic.twitter.com/11LgbfFJDq ? Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) November 28, 2017 VIDEO: Muslim Destroys a Statue of Virgin Mary! ?

FBI Director Christopher Wray served as closing speaker at the International Conference on Cyber Security in New York on July 25, 2019. The conference was co...

Twitter itself plays a significant role in promoting anti-Semitism. Despite thousands of complaints, Twitter left most of the rapper's (Wiley's) tweets up for six days and only decided to ban him for life after a 48-hour boycott of the platform by

In Western universities and board rooms, souls are cheap. But Jimmy Lai's is not. He is willing to lose the whole world for the sake of his soul.

En kvinna i Värnamo straffas med 6500 kronor i böter efter att ha ertappats med ett basebollträ i sin bil. Det enligt lagen om förbud beträffande knivar och andra farliga föremål. Kvinnan själv menar att det blivit kvar efter att hon spelat brännboll i höstas.

Accounting gimmicks can't hide the fact that federal support ultimately pays for abortion.