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When Jennifer Watkins got a message from YouTube saying her channel was being shut down, she wasn’t initially worried. She didn’t use YouTube, after all. Her 7-year-old twin sons, though, used a Samsung tablet logged into her Google account to watch content for children and to make YouTube videos of themselves doing silly dances. Few …

About this essay. I wrote this for an anonymous essay competition organized by the Foundational Questions Institute with the theme “How could science be different?” (it arrived third place!). But I also wrote it, from the very beginning, as a sort of manifesto for Plankton Valhalla. It’s all this website is about. Halfway through the …

Republican Sen. Mike Braun is attempting a rather unconvincing cleanup job after telling reporters on Tuesday that the Supreme Court was wrong to strike down state laws banning interracial marriage in its landmark 1967 decision, Loving vs. Virginia. Braun, the junior senator from Indiana, made his comments during a media call in which he argued …

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two alleged burglars couldn’t talk their way out of trouble after being caught red-handed last week breaking into a Todt Hill home, authorities allege. Aleska Buono initially told cops she was working for a construction company renovating the home when she and Frankie Torres were busted on Friday, said a law …

Iran says it accidentally shot down Flight 752. After maintaining for days that there was no evidence that one of its missiles had struck a Boeing 737-800 minutes after it took off from Tehran on Wednesday with 176 people on board, Iran admitted early on Saturday that its military had accidentally shot down the passenger …

U.S. intelligence officials have evidence that suggests the Ukraine International Airlines jetliner that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing 176 people, was downed by an Iranian missile by mistake, multiple officials told NBC News. An initial Iranian report released Thursday suggested a sudden emergency struck the Boeing 737 before it went down just moments after …

A contingent of U.S. Special Forces has been caught up in Turkish shelling against U.S.-backed Kurdish positions in northern Syria, days after President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart he would withdraw U.S. troops from certain positions in the area. Newsweek has learned through both an Iraqi Kurdish intelligence official and senior Pentagon official that …

New Zealand was accidentally labelled as Japan on a map screened by a Russian media outlet in the latest geographic snub for the country. Moscow-based RT has apologised to Kiwis for the mix-up that also labelled Papua New Guinea as South Korea. The bungle came in a report by its US bureau earlier this month …

JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images EU Commissioner of Competition Margrethe Vestager speaks to reporters after slapping Google with an antitrust fine in March 2019. Congress, with some goading from their competitors, appears eager to apply antitrust enforcement to Facebook FB, -1.21% …

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow insisted on Sunday Donald Trump is not backing off national security concerns, despite agreeing to allow US companies to sell some components to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. Trump made the announcement on Saturday after meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping for trade talks at the G20 summit in Japan. Trump …