In a radio interview with WHYY’s NewsWorks in Philadelphia, FactCheck.org Director Eugene Kiely talks about the recent announcement that FactCheck.org will work with Facebook to combat fake news on the popular social media site.
Today we look at another request for a presidential pardon, this one from the family of Marcus Garvey, a pioneering figure in the Black Freedom struggle in the early 20th century
One of the most potent worries about the coming Trump presidency is concern about free speech. Trump’s willingness to tolerate or even encourage violence against nonviolent critics of his agenda and personnel choices is alarming. The Washington Post
ACLU applauds end of "completely failed counter-terrorism tool and massive profiling program that didn’t yield a single terrorism conviction in nearly a decade"
Beyond Nuclear, a leading national anti-nuclear advocacy group, today called on the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to make public the full list of U.S nuclear power plants that are known to be operating with potentially defective parts imported
Businessman Mark Cuban says he would take 100 billion of the government's proposed $1 trillion dollars in infrastructure investment and invest it in robotics. Cuban believes the U.S. is falling behind China in the robotics industry and that we really need to invest in R&D.
In 2015, researchers discovered 163 new species in the Greater Mekong subregion, an area in Asia that covers 1 million square miles. The area is under constant threat of industrial development, so many of its species are in danger of going extinct, which could hurt both the ecosystem and humans.