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Outdated Headline in Las Vegas Paper Unleashes ‘Fire Hose of Hatred’

Social media users seized on a weeks-old story in The Las Vegas Review-Journal to falsely accuse it of lying about the death of a retired...

Liberty Safe Backlash: How a Gun Safe Maker Angered Gun Owners

Liberty Safe faced intense criticism this week after it acknowledged that it had voluntarily given the F.B.I. the access code to a safe in response...

Alexandra Paul, Olympic Figure Skater From Canada, Is Killed in Car Crash

Ms. Paul, 31, competed in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Her infant son survived the crash, the authorities said.

Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco

Though driverless cars have not been blamed for any serious injuries or crashes in the city, they have been involved in several jarring episodes.

Reddit Communities Still Dark As Protest Continues

Users’ anger continued to bubble over changes to the company’s business model.

Reddit Communities Go Dark to Protest New App Policy

Volunteer moderators closed off access to numerous subreddits and denounced the platform’s pricing plan for developers of popular outside apps used to navigate the site.

Possible Cyberattack Disrupts The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Inquirer, citing “anomalous activity” on its computer systems, said it was unable to print its regular Sunday edition and told staff members not to...

Sum 41, Pop-Punk Band of Early 2000s Fame, Says It Will Disband

With catchy songs like “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep,” the Canadian band was part of a pop-punk wave that included Blink-182, Simple Plan, Good...

Twitter Removes ‘Government-Funded’ Labels From NPR and Other Media Accounts

NPR and public broadcasters in Canada, Australia and New Zealand had criticized the label as misleading. The CBC and NPR have suspended the use of...

Texas Observer Reverses Plan to Shut Down and Lay Off Staff

Former and current staff members had fought the decision to shut down the 68-year-old magazine, a bastion of liberal opinion and investigative journalism in a...