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While posting revenge porn was already against the social network’s community guidelines, the Menlo Park company said it will now identify and catalog specific images reported as revenge porn, according to a blog post by Facebook’s head of global safety, Antigone Davis. Policing such images has proven a difficult task for Facebook and other social networks that deal with a flood of posts each day and have not always consistently enforced their policies regarding graphic images. Approximately 4 percent of U.S. Internet users... Читать дальше...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — As the residents of Russia’s second-largest city try to regain their nerve in the wake of a fatal subway bombing, officials announced Wednesday that six people have been arrested on suspicion of recruiting others to commit extremist crimes. Wednesday’s statement from the Investigative Committee gave few details, but said those arrested came from Central Asian countries that once were part of the Soviet Union. The six detained were accused of recruiting “mostly immigrants... Читать дальше...

Retired Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch visited the Raiders facility on Wednesday, further paving the way for the Oakland native’s returrn to the NFL to play for his mom’s favorite team. Lynch told the Raiders Wednesday that he plans to un-retire, the NFL Network reported, after a month of leaning in that direction. The Raiders still need a big running back to go with 5-foot-8 Jalen Richard and DeAndre Washington, as free agent Latavius Murray left to sign with the Minnesota Vikings. Oakland... Читать дальше...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two recent state House members have been elected to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors by their former colleagues. The chamber also elected Robeson County finance director Kellie Hunt Blue, Asheville lawyer Carolyn Lloyd Coward, Wendy Murphy of Wallace and hotel management executive Doyle Parrish of Raleigh.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing no evidence, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused his predecessor's national security adviser of breaking the law, one month after he accused former President Barack Obama of illegally wiretapping him. In an interview with The New York Times, Trump said Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, committed a crime when she asked government analysts to disclose the names of Trump associates documented in intelligence reports. Trump's first national security adviser... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unhappy that their favorite whipping boy is still in charge of the IRS, House Republicans asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to fire Commissioner John Koskinen. Through it all, Koskinen maintained that the IRS was doing all it could to help lawmakers in their multiple investigations, even as the agency discovered troves lost emails from a key official in the investigation. In response to the letter, the IRS issued a statement saying that Koskinen is focused on completing... Читать дальше...

SEOSAN, South Korea — Chung Young-chul takes a drag on his cigarette and watches as wild ducks fly across rice fields and land on a reservoir in this remote farming village. Some were ordered to marry female inmates, mostly ex-prostitutes sent from government-run shelters, in two rounds of mass weddings. After repeated legal defeats, some have accepted a recent government proposal to buy the land at market prices in installments over 20 years, though they know they’ll probably die before they complete the payments. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A man known as the Godfather of Grass has been deported from Canada and will be held in a Vermont prison pending his return to Kentucky to face federal marijuana charges. The 73-year-old Boone was convicted in the 1980s in what prosecutors called the "largest domestic marijuana syndicate in American history."

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will become the sole owner of premium cable network Epix, after the mini-major studio bought out partners Paramount Pictures and Lionsgate, the company announced Wednesday. The acquisition creates increased revenue diversity, new opportunities for growth, and earnings accretion for the benefit of stockholders, Gary Barber, Chairman and CEO of MGM said in a statement.  With Mark’s strong leadership and dedicated management team, Epix’s innovative platform and premium film and television content... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A medical examiner has ruled that a Connecticut college student who choked on pancakes during an eating contest on campus died of accidental asphyxia. The New York City chief medical examiner's office released autopsy results Wednesday for Caitlin Nelson, a 20-year-old from Clark, New Jersey, who attended Sacred Heart University in Fairfield.

“There’s a camaraderie,” said Asia scholar and journalist Orville Schell, glancing at orchestra members taking their places as we in the audience took ours. In early winter, in response to the passage of HB2, the North Carolina law that removed protections for transgender people, the orchestra’s administration canceled two concerts scheduled to be performed on Wednesday-Thursday, April 5-6 in Chapel Hill, N.C. And then, on a “dark, rainy day in December,” said the Symphony’s interim director Derek... Читать дальше...

NEW DELHI — A Muslim man beaten by a mob that accused him of transporting cows for slaughter has died in western India, police said Wednesday, in the latest violence by Hindu vigilante groups enraged over treatment of the animal they consider sacred. The men had bought the dairy cows at a cattle fair and were taking them home in neighboring Haryana state when the mob stopped the trucks, pulled out the men and beat them, said the duty officer at the police control room in Behror town, where Saturday’s attack took place. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Students and school employees would gain wider rights to express their religious viewpoint at public schools under a bill approved by the Florida House. School districts could not stop school personnel from participating in student religious activities.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Republican Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed Maryland's blueprint for identifying and assisting struggling schools on Wednesday, saying the formula approved by the Democrat-led legislature weakens accountability and undermines state efforts to help. Hogan, speaking at the Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys, said the bill is too lax on academic performance standards, caves in to special interests and would make it "nearly impossible" for the state to fix struggling schools. Betty Weller... Читать дальше...

Financial documents recently released by Ohio State show its legal costs to fight former band director Jonathan Waters' lawsuits over his firing totaled more than $1.4 million relating to his action in federal court. The university fired Waters in 2014 after an internal investigation determined he ignored the band's culture of raunchy, profane and suggestive traditions and mishandled sexual discrimination allegations.

Military officials say a pilot whose F-16 crashed near Washington has been released from the hospital after being treated for minor injuries. The pilot is with the District of Columbia Air National Guard and was flying one of four fighter jets from Maryland to a shooting range in Pennsylvania for a training exercise. A homeowner who lives near a fighter jet crash site in a Washington suburb says the remains of the plane are in his backyard. Fire officials say it's "very fortunate" that no one... Читать дальше...

BAGHDAD — Islamic militants unleashed multiple suicide attacks in the city of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, a provincial official said Wednesday. Iraqi forces drove out Islamic State militants from Tikrit in April 2015. [...] Islamic State militants have launched a number of big attacks in and around Tikrit, located about 80 miles north of Baghdad. Islamic State has suffered a string of defeats over the past two years — most recently in the operation in Mosul, where Iraqi... Читать дальше...

[...] Hef turns 91 on April 9 and is as over-covered as a cultural icon as his playmates of the month have been under-covered since 70,000 copies of the very first issue of Playboy magazine hit the stands in 1953. The docuseries is an odd hybrid of archival footage; new interviews with Hef’s inner circle — including daughter Christie, Playboy marketing director Victor Lownes and Charlaine Karalus, who went from the magazine’s circulation department to its first “girl next door” Playmate as Janet... Читать дальше...

The case involved a dispute between Unwired Planet, a U.S. company that has purchased patents developed by other firms, and China-based Huawei Technologies Co., which makes phones and other communications equipment, over the use of patented technologies that have become the standard on which mobile phone networks are based. [...] that raised the question of what FRAND terms would be, with patent holders and manufacturers choosing different definitions. [...] the courts have offered little guidance... Читать дальше...

Any film that celebrates the greatness of the movies (and the plucky souls who make them) risks getting lumped together with such recent hooray-for-Hollywood awards-bait as “The Artist,” “Argo” and “La La Land,” but “Their Finest” goes in another direction entirely, demonstrating how Britain’s wartime cinematic output was used to rally support for the war (at home and abroad) while never shying away from the loss, horror and heartbreak that every war creates. For many, it means jobs in munitions factories... Читать дальше...

ROMAGNE-SOUS-MONTFAUCON, France — Carpenter Guy Ford liked to watch fish play in the currents around his ship as it sailed for Europe to offload untested troops for a war as horrendous as it was defining for the century to come. [...] unlike many young Americans who fought in World War I, he lived to see his country go from a fledgling, inward-looking nation to a world power. Before April 6, 1917, the United States still was, in the words of American writer Walter Lippmann, a country where “money... Читать дальше...

'That's hot!' Paris Hilton has a blonde new beau.

The Republicans sent a letter to UW System President Ray Cross on Tuesday saying that an oversupply of milk is driving prices down and hurting farmers. The letter says it's time to get creative and explore alternative uses for milk, pointing to how the development of ethanol has helped improve things for Iowa corn farmers.

(AP) — A former Forbes magazine publisher accused of scaring elementary school children on a school bus in a case of alleged road rage was allowed Wednesday into a probation program that could result in misdemeanor charges being erased. Breach of peace and disorderly conduct charges will be erased in six months if the 64-year-old Westport resident stays out of trouble. [...] police said Berrien's statements conflicted with video from surveillance cameras on the bus.

For the fifth annual SFJazz Poetry Festival, Genny Lim has curated more than four nights of interdisciplinary performances. The whole mnemonic, oral tradition really heavily influenced and shaped the poetry that I do today. The pen is mightier than the sword, as they say, and it’s true, because we plant word bombs and word seeds in people’s minds; the deterrent to that is to cut off our pipeline access to federal and state dollars. “All of these people who fought so hard for civil rights have become pushed aside... Читать дальше...