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In the two days since conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated, social media reactions have ranged from the sorrowful—grief, condemnation, and offering prayers—to the crassest expressions…

Members of a far-right nationalist party are helping to organise protests outside hotels used to house asylum seekers across the UK, according to a series of…

Any Dallas Cowboys fans hoping for a peaceful resolution to the Micah Parsons saga may want to stay off social media. That’s because Parsons has scrubbed…

Vaccination rates among the country’s kindergartners have fallen once again, with coverage of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination dropping from 92.7 percent in the…

Ned Davies, Shayan Sardarizadeh & Matt MurphyBBC VerifyGetty ImagesSocial media companies ​​are blocking wide-ranging content – including posts about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza -…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Amazon announced strong sales and profit growth in…

Summer weekends in America are good for lots of things: baseball games, cookouts, farmers’ markets, sipping a bev next to a lake. Or, if you’re President…

Eric Adams, possible resident of New Jersey and mayor of New York City, is a man of many talents. He is the city’s “most famous vegan”,…

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI says it is working to remove “inappropriate” posts made by its chatbot, Grok, after users shared how it made positive…

The annual tally of measles cases in the US is the highest in 33 years, as an ongoing outbreak in west Texas continues to drive cases.The…