Friday News Roundup - Domestic
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AT&T And Justice Department Meet In Court Over Potential Time Warner Deal
After months of build-up, lawyers for AT&T and the Justice Department squared off in court Thursday over the potential $85 billion deal for Time Warner. The Justice Department says it will hurt competition and drive up cable TV subscription prices.
Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize-Winner And NABJ Founder, Dies At 76
He committed himself to improving conditions for African Americans saying "I saw myself as a kind of lead pipe in the hands of people who did not otherwise have a weapon to counter such things."
Zuckerberg Breaks Silence, Promises To Protect Facebook Community
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his first responses, followed by a CNN appearance, after the controversy surrounding reports that Cambridge Analytica exploited users' data without their knowledge,
Opening Arguments Begin In AT&T And Time Warner Merger Case
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and AT&T square off in opening arguments this week over whether AT&T's proposed takeover of media conglomerate Time Warner hurts consumers.
Slovakia Government's Collapse Not Enough To End Protests Over Journalist's Murder
An investigative journalist and his fiancée were killed, sparking a political upheaval. But that failed to quell the largest protests in the Central European country since the 1989 Velvet Revolution.
Attacked By Alt-Right Trolls, A Jewish Journalist Links Trump To The Rise Of Hate
Trump "has made nationalist policy into the policy of the executive branch," says New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman. His new book, (((Semitism))), is about being Jewish in the Trump era.
Spot Fake News By Making It
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Sander van der Linden of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab about his online game which tries to teach players about fake news by making them produce it.
ProPublica Corrects Its Story On Trump's CIA Nominee Gina Haspel And Waterboarding
The investigative and fact-checking newsroom is retracting parts of its story that had resurfaced after Gina Haspel was picked by President Trump to lead the CIA.
Layoffs Hit 'Chicago Tribune' Newsroom
The Chicago Tribune went through a new round of layoffs on Thursday. The newspaper's parent company Tronc has big plans to change what readers will see on the websites of its newspapers.