Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Staff Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.
31 Aug
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Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Staff Writer? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

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Top Stories Tamfitronics Top Stories Tamfitronics Make it a habit! Get the Slate Quiz in your inbox every weekday. Welcome to Slate’s weekly news quiz. It’s Friday, which means it’s time to test your knowledge of the week’s news events. Your host, Ray Hamel, has concocted questions on news topics ranging from politics to business, from culture to sports to science. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be able to compare your score with that of the average contestant, as well as that of a Slatester who has agreed to take the quiz on the record. This week’s contestant is staff writer Henry Grabar. Can you ace the quiz and beat Grabar? Good luck! The original 86 area codes...
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Finally, a Federal Court Hits Back Hard at Big Tech on Section 230
31 Aug
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Finally, a Federal Court Hits Back Hard at Big Tech on Section 230

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Top Stories Tamfitronics This week saw a dramatic turn inour nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous onlinesewers that we call social media.First, the backstory. If youpublish a newspaper or newsletter and you publish “illegal” content—encouragecrimes or homicide, offer to sell drugs, promote child porn, advocateoverthrowing a government—you can go to jail. If you publish things that defameor lie about persons or corporations, you can be sued into bankruptcy.If you own a bookstore or newsstandand distribute books, magazines, and newspapers and offer for sale illegalcontent—child or snuff porn, stolen copyrighted material, instructions formaking illegal drugs or weapons—you can also go to jail. And if you sellmaterials that openly defame individuals or corporations, you can be sued intobankruptcy.In the first category, you’d be apublisher. In the second, you’d be a distributor.But what is social...
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WATCH: Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. – Aug. 30, 2024
31 Aug
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WATCH: Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. – Aug. 30, 2024

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Top Stories Tamfitronics By StaffGlobal NewsPosted August 30, 2024 8:00 pmUpdated August 30, 2024 9:06 pm1 min read 11:13Global Okanagan News at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30, 2024Watch the online edition of the Global Okanagan at 5:30A suspicious house fire in Kelowna. The Okanagan’s economy is looking up and we find out why. And a look at the kids and animals in the spotlight at the IPE in Armstrong.Get breaking National newsFor news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.Click here to view more Global News videos.Trending Now&copy 2024 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.
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In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism
31 Aug
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In new book, journalist Joshua Leifer offers a scathing take on American Judaism

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — In journalist Joshua Leifer’s new book, a sweeping historical account of American Judaism, is an impassioned indictment of a fractured and contentious religious tradition. His central charge is that Judaism is hampered by its embrace of Zionism, which has become a substitute for the faith itself.It was therefore ironic that last week, a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a book talk with Leifer, where he was slated to discuss “Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life,” with a prominent Reform rabbi. The reason for the cancellation? The rabbi’s professed Zionism. (The book talk was later rescheduled and took place earlier this week at another venue.)In his book, which spans an entire century, Leifer, 30, now a Ph.D. candidate in history at Yale University, describes...
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