Lauren McCauley

US May Soon Vet Social Media Accounts Before Granting Travel Visas

Department of Homeland Security says collecting social media data will “provide greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity”

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Department of Homeland Security says collecting social media data will "provide greater clarity and visibility to possible nefarious activity"

File this under Another Unsettling Development: People who want to travel to the United States may soon have their Facebook profiles and other social media accounts “vetted” by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before entering. A proposed change to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) and to Form I-94W posted to the

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Latest Poll Shows Trump Riding Wave Of ‘Hatred’ To Tie With Clinton

Brexit serves as troubling backdrop to latest U.S. election polling numbers.

Lauren McCauley
作者 Lauren McCauley
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listens as he is introduced at Politics and Eggs in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

"Hate winning." That's the troubling explanation provided by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday as its latest national poll showed that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a statistical dead heat. The latest survey (pdf) published Wednesday finds the contest between two frontrunners "too close to call," with Clinton securing 42 percent of

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Republicans Show Just How Much of Trump’s “Textbook Racism” They Will Tolerate

As many Republicans rush to disavow latest comments, has the presumptive nominee finally gone too far?

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作者 Lauren McCauley
The New York billionaire has insulted entire sectors of people. Yet, the party has widely gotten behind his candidacy. (Image: Credo Action/ with overlay)

Testing the endurance of the proverbial 'camel's back' on Tuesday, many mainstream Republicans claimed to have reached their threshold of blatantly discriminatory remarks made by the anointed party nominee, Donald Trump. Throughout his campaign, the New York billionaire has insulted entire sectors of people, from Mexicans and Muslims to women

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Facebook ‘Blacklisting’ Conservative Leaning News Stories

Journalists from across the political spectrum raise concerns after former employees reveal manipulation of ‘trending’ bar

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作者 Lauren McCauley
In this Oct. 10, 2011 file photo, a magnifying glass is posed over a monitor displaying a Facebook page in Munich. (AP Photo, Joerg Koch, File)

Revelations that Facebook may have regularly "blacklisted" conservative stories from the platform's "trending" news section was met with outrage on Monday from journalists across the political spectrum who found the company's alleged abuse of power "disturbing" and potentially dangerous. After speaking with several former "news curators,"

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How One State Ended Its ‘Rigged’ Superdelegate System Once And For All

Though Sanders won 64 percent of the Maine vote, he has only received one of the state’s five superdelegates.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Vote sign

Frustrated by what they describe as a "rigged" electoral system in the face of Bernie Sanders' overwhelming majority win, Democrats in Maine on Saturday voted to adopt a rule change that will essentially eliminate the power of superdelegates to pick a candidate of their choosing. Though Sanders won 64 percent of the Maine vote, he has only

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Kerry’s Hiroshima Wreath-Laying Decried As ‘Nuclear Hypocrisy’

Historic visit and call for ‘nuclear-free world’ come amid an unprecedented weapons build-up in the United States.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
From left, Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Britain's Foreign Minister Philip Hammond carry wreath to offer at the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan Monday, April 11, 2016. (Kyodo News via AP)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made headlines on Monday for being the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan, after which he and other world leaders issued a call for a "world without nuclear weapons." But the historic visit comes amid a massive nuclear weapons build-up within the United States, and

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While Clinton Backed 2011 Trade Deal, Sanders Foresaw Panama Papers Fiasco

‘Panama is a world leader when it comes to allowing wealthy Americans and large corporations to evade US taxes,’ Sanders told Congress in 2011.

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作者 Lauren McCauley
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a campaign rally in Laramie, Wyo., Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Sanders won the Democratic presidential primary in Wisconsin Tuesday. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Who could have predicted that the global tax evasion by the world's ultra-rich, made publicthis week with the release of the Panama Papers, was ushered in with the help of a free trade agreement? Turns out, Sen. Bernie Sanders did. In fiery speech before the U.S. Senate in 2011, Bernie Sanders declared his "strong opposition" to the

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