Early last year, amid mounting criticism that social media was spreading disinformation about covid-19, Facebook expanded an unprecedented campaign to police falsehoods by banning what it called “debunked claims” about the virus.Among them: The claim that covid was “man-made” and had leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.To the Biden administration and the scientific establishment,…

At top universities like Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there’s a fall tradition playing out behind the scenes: students are back, and so are company recruiters looking to hire the best and the brightest. These prize students, say New York Times investigative reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, want a place to work as prestigious as…

Post Office handles more cash as banks close and prices rise Published 2 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Post Office Post Office branches handled increased amounts of cash in August, a trend it expects to continue, as banks close branches and the cost of living bites. The Post…

It’s been 11 days since Hurricane Ian, a Category 4 monster of a storm, cut across central Florida.Even in a state that’s no stranger to hurricanes, the destruction in the wake of Ian is staggering: more than 100 deaths, most by drowning; communities in tatters; the price tag for recovery estimated at more than $100…

Share this story ARVADA, Colo.— Not long after the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion, Robin Kupernik and Elizabeta Stacishin met for lunch and then went for a walk through the Denver Botanic Gardens.“We were both angry,” Kupernik later recalled.“We both said at the same time, ‘This is not about babies, this is…

With grocery prices soaring , consumers are changing the way they shop for food .That’s great news for discount grocers like bare-bones supermarket Aldi. Aldi, which requires a 25-cent deposit to use grocery carts, sells mostly store brands and doesn’t waste time on elaborate displays, might not be for everyone. But more than one million…

A parade of character witnesses provided a judge Thursday with glowing reports about a southern Arizona woman who admitted to collecting four early ballots in the 2020 primary election as her lawyer seeks leniency and prosecutors urge him to send her to prison for a year.Testimony in Yuma County Superior Court painted a picture of…

Cost of Living 4:44 Forget quiet quitting.How do I know if I’m being quietly fired? Looking back, says MaryAnn Kerr, it was a work call at home on a day off that heralded the beginning of the end of a job. About five years ago, Kerr, a veteran executive in the non-profit sector, landed a…

San Francisco — The suspect in the kidnapping and killings of an 8-month-old baby, her parents and an uncle had worked for the family’s trucking business and had a longstanding feud with them that culminated in an act of “pure evil,” a sheriff said Thursday. The bodies of Aroohi Dheri; her mother Jasleen Kaur, 27;…