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Something historic happened in Massachusetts on Tuesday night: A Kennedy lost an election. Seventy-four-year-old incumbent Senator Ed Markey beat out 39-year-old Representative Joseph Kennedy III in the state’s Democratic Senate primary. The outcome of the race flips the script on the upstart-insurgent-beats-Washington-old-timer formula that has been used by young progressives…

Sen. Ted Cruz is leading the charge on a Hail Mary plea to the Food and Drug and Administration: He wants the agency to cut off access to a pill that’s used in nearly 40% of U.S. abortions. On Monday, the Texas Republican led a group of 20 senators in…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Defying anger from China, the president of the Czech Republic’s Senate addressed Taiwan’s legislature on Tuesday, offering a strong rebuke of authoritarian politics and Beijing’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy. Milos Vystrcil concluded a speech that underscored shared democratic values by proclaiming in Mandarin that “I am…

President Trump again denounced Black Lives Matter as a "Marxist organization" and said it was "discriminatory" during an interview with Fox News that aired Monday night.What he's saying: "The first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, I said, 'That’s a terrible name.' It's so discriminatory," Trump told Fox…

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This summer has been littered with stories about algorithms gone awry. For one example, a recent study found evidence Facebook’s ad platform may discriminate against certain demographic groups. The team of coauthors from Carnegie Mellon University say the biases exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities, an insight applicable to a broad swath of…

Sara Ramirez, best known for playing Dr. Callie Torres on "Grey's Anatomy," came out this week as gender nonbinary.In a post shared on Instagram Thursday, Ramirez said, "In me is the capacity to be" everything from a "girlish boy" to a "boyish girl."Ramirez included the hashtag #nonbinary in the caption…

Friends, delegates and distinguished guests, please, I stand before you tonight honored by your support, proud of the extraordinary progress we have made together over the last four incredible years and brimming with confidence in the bright future we will build for America over the next four years.We begin this…

Senators back proposal to end contracts with Chinese firms involved in West Philippine Sea reclamation Bella Perez-Rubio (Philstar.com) - August 28, 2020 - 5:40pm MANILA, Philippines — Two senators on Friday backed the country's top diplomat after he urged concerned government agencies to terminate contracts with Chinese companies involved in…

The governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and California said they will not follow controversial new coronavirus testing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even as the agency defended its new stance. The guidance says people without symptoms who have been exposed to someone who tested…