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In the mountains, heavy downpours can be devastating, especially when storms hit back to back. .
Les gens croient aux fausses théories du complot pour un large éventail de raisons, y compris le fait qu'il existe de véritables complots.
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Conspiracy theories abound. What should you believe − and how can you tell?
As campanhas de desinformação usam truques emocionais e retóricos para tentar fazer com que você compartilhe propaganda e falsidades.
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As campanhas de desinformação geralmente usam um conjunto de artifícios retóricos que você pode aprender a identificar, como narrativas de conspiração, enquadramento do bem contra o mal e “segredos revelados”
Disinformation campaigns use emotional and rhetorical tricks to try to get you to share propaganda and falsehoods.
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Disinformation campaigns often use a set of rhetorical devices that you can learn to spot, like conspiracy narratives, good versus evil framing, and revealed secrets.
People lie dead in the aftermath of the unprovoked shooting of peaceful protesters.
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Despite its historic importance, Sharpeville itself has remained unknown and its residents anonymous, yet they have a story to tell.
Military police clash with supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro after an invasion to Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia on January 8, 2023. Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images.
In Europe, a large-scale war could cause the Baltic Sea to freeze over and severely compromise food security – potentially for decades and even centuries to come.
Get a shot of preparation and protect yourself from malicious information warriors.
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As elections approach – and even after they’re done – there’s a lot of confusing, and deliberately misleading, information out there. Learn how to protect yourself.
Jurnalisme opini dapat membuat orang gusar – atau dapat menyatukan mereka.
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The decline of the news industry has been well documented. How did news organizations in the US heartland, facing potential extinction, survive – and even thrive – through the pandemic?
The twin buttes that give Bears Ears National Monument in Utah its name are sacred places to many Indigenous Tribes and Pueblos.
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The Biden administration is restoring full protection to three national monuments that President Trump sought to cut down drastically.
“My family has lost everything. We all live in this area, and now it’s all gone,” said Fusto Maldonado, whose home in Barataria, Louisiana, flooded during Hurricane Ida.
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As the state copes with hurricanes and climate disasters, it is figuring out how to manage the slow-motion loss of its coastal land. But its plans could endanger the cultures that define the region.
Opinion journalism can rile people up – or it can bring them together.
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The best op-ed pages operate like a town square, allowing readers to discuss and debate issues important to their communities and beyond. But many now focus on divisive national political issues.
The U.S. Capitol remains on lockdown, defended by the National Guard.
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New members are joining and some are leaving – as right-wing groups reorganize, scholars of the movement foresee increased polarization, with a risk of more violence.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to the press after the House voted to remove her from committee assignments.
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A storm-driven chlorine gas release in a vulnerable community is the type of worst-case scenario that scientists and engineers have warned about for decades.
A member of the far-right Boogaloo Bois group walks next to protestors in Charlotte, N.C., on May 29, 2020.
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Global Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC and Hopkins P Breazeale Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University