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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) released their annual list of the worst colleges for free speech on Monday.

The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opening ceremony was hit with a cyberattack last week, however the attacker has yet to be revealed.

The U.S. military has introduced acupuncture as a pain relief treatment for troops in an effort to fight opioid abuse, according to a report.

Despite Conan O’Brien’s claims that Haiti is ‘a beautiful country,’ and ‘great already,’ during his recent publicity stunt against President Trump’s alleged negative comments about the country, the comedian trashed the country on his show in 2005.

The advertising industry wants to make the web family-friendly, and leftist pressure group Sleeping Giants-friendly too.

A guest at a Kentucky hotel was in for a surprise Wednesday when he discovered hundreds of high school choir students singing a rendition of the national anthem.

An anthropology professor at Princeton University has come under fire after he used the “n-word” multiple times during a class discussion on “hate speech, blasphemy, and pornography.”

White social justice warriors were not happy when a single negative Black Panther review emerged this week, taking to Twitter to vent their rage.

YouTube has suspended ad revenue on popular YouTube Star Logan Paul’s channel due to his “recent pattern” of behavior.

A school district in Duluth, Minnesota, has announced that they will ban To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn from classroom curricula.

University of Michigan Hosts ‘Pederastic’ Lecture on Sex Between Adult Men and Boys

A “record-setting” light display consisting of 1,218 drones was revealed during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Friday.

A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute claiming that conservatives and Trump supporters are more likely to share so-called “junk news” on social media has a hopelessly slanted methodology, which labels virtually every major conservative news site, ranging from National Review to Breitbart News, as “junk.”

A South Dakota House of Representatives bill written to protect free speech on campus was voted down during a committee vote on Friday.

A petition is urging Disney-owned Marvel Studios to invest 25 percent of the profits from its upcoming superhero epic ‘Black Panther’ to the black community.

A bevy of Black Twitter users took to social media this week to reveal what the upcoming Black Panther movie means to them through the use of the hashtag ‘#WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe.’

Google has received a $21.1 million antitrust fine in India relating to bias within the tech giant’s search product.

The Brexit nullification project was dealt a major blow yesterday as Twitter revealed the numbers behind the much-vaunted “Russian meddling” narrative promoted by Remain campaigners and the establishment media. While the BBC, Sky News, the Daily Mail, Buzzfeed and others hyped the story,

The lawsuit between Waymo and Uber has been dismissed as the tech companies reached a surprise settlement.

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has sparked outrage after posing topless for a photo taken by her 4-year-old daughter.

Twitter’s stock spiked up 20 percent on better than expected profits Thursday, but then fell back to a 10.89 percent gain in late trading as analysts questioned the quality of its earnings.

TEHRAN – Iran said Friday that its athletes had refused to accept special Samsung mobile telephones issued for the Winter Olympics in South Korea until they received an apology for initially being refused them.

The Log Cabin Republicans protested against the stalling of openly gay diplomat Richard Grenell’s appointment as U.S. ambassador to Germany, Thursday, following Donald Trump Jr.’s own complaints last month.

Even when disconnected or in airplane mode, phones powered by Google’s Android operating system still track your every move.

A recent episode of the Freakonomics podcast explained and debunked the gender pay gap between male and female Uber drivers.

As the world marvels at Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX publicity stunt, Tesla’s Model 3 has been delayed — again.

A Yale-published study claiming to mirror Facebook’s new methodology for sorting “broadly trusted” news sources from partisan news inadvertently undermines its author’s own advocacy of the methodology by listing far-left sites Salon.com and HuffingtonPost as “mainstream” while packing its “hyper-partisan” category with right-of-center news sources.

Facebook’s A.I. research team (FAIR) has revealed their AI neural network, which can map skins onto people in videos during real-time.

Twitter has posted their first profitable quarter in 12 years, but the company is still lagging behind in monthly user metrics.

Two writers have discovered a likely source of inspiration for eleven Shakespeare plays, including Macbeth, by using anti-plagiarism software.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that male executives who follow the “Pence rule,” and refuse to dine alone with female colleagues, should avoid eating with male colleagues as well.

NBC News conducted an interview with Obama era Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cybersecurity chief Jeanette Manfra Wednesday, then tweeted out a largely inconsequential revelation from last year as “BREAKING” news.

Two New York state lawmakers are pushing legislation that would ban manufacturers from making laundry detergent pods that look edible.

The Holy Cross College Board of Trustees voted to retain the college’s “Crusaders” monicker after a long debate over whether or not the nickname was appropriate.

Facebook “has completely destroyed independent digital comedy,” according to Funny or Die’s Matt Klinman, who was recently interviewed following mass layoffs at the company.

Tayler Ivy Boncal, a student teacher at Conard High School in West Hartford, Connecticut, has been charged with sexual assault after she engaged in a consensual sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student.