World leaders are appalled by storming of US Capitol — WJXT News4JAX

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Lead­ers around the world con­demned the storm­ing of the U.S. Capi­tol by sup­port­ers of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Wednes­day, express­ing shock at the chaos unfold­ing in a coun­try they once relied upon for glob­al lead­er­ship. “Dis­grace­ful scenes in US Con­gress,” tweet­ed Prime Min­is­ter Boris John­son of Britain, a staunch ally of the Unit­ed States over…

The Infodemic: Social Media Posts Spread Misinformation About COVID-19 Deaths

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Polygraph.info is a fact-check­­ing web­site pro­duced by Voice of Amer­i­ca (VOA)​ and Radio Free Europe/Radio Lib­er­ty. The web­site serves as a resource for ver­i­fy­ing the increas­ing vol­ume of dis­in­for­ma­tion and mis­in­for­ma­tion being dis­trib­uted and shared glob­al­ly. A sim­i­lar web­site in the Russ­ian language

A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

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On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in October.…