How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town
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How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West of imagination. And for decades, its media diet was classically all-American, too. Nightly news broadcasts played on living room televisions….

Prelude to a Funeral – The New York Times
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Prelude to a Funeral – The New York Times

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Francis set the stage for his own mourning late last year, when he approved a simplified procedure for papal funeral rituals. Simplicity, of course, is relative — in this case to the breathtaking grandeur bequeathed by centuries of Roman Catholic tradition. The procession…

Ukrainians Mourn Many Killed in Russian Strike Near Playground
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Ukrainians Mourn Many Killed in Russian Strike Near Playground

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Their lives intersected around a playground on a sunny Friday evening in Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine. Kostiantyn Novik, 16, had come with his cousin to hang out with friends. Serhii Smotolok, a 57-year-old welder, was nursing a beer nearby on…

Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War
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Sudan’s Military Sweeps Across Capital, Hoping to Turn the War

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the battle-scarred presidential palace in the heart of Sudan’s shattered capital, soldiers gathered under a chandelier on Sunday afternoon, rifles and rocket launchers slung over their shoulders, listening to their orders. Then they trooped out, down a red carpet that once welcomed…

Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Find Themselves Stranded and in Limbo
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Migrants Deported to Panama by Trump Find Themselves Stranded and in Limbo

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When the first buses of newly freed migrants arrived this month in Panama City from a detention camp at the edge of a jungle, three people were visibly ill. One needed H.I.V. treatment, a lawyer said, another had run out of insulin and…

After Israeli Strike Kills More Than 400, Palestinians Tally the Dead
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After Israeli Strike Kills More Than 400, Palestinians Tally the Dead

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For nearly 60 days, Gazans did not have to tally the newly dead as a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas held. Hostages and prisoners were freed, food and supplies returned to markets, and people picked their way through ruins they had called…