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Minks Culled Over COVID-19 Fears Are Rising From Their Mass Graves

Minks that were culled in Den­mark over fears they could spread a mutat­ed strain of the coro­n­avirus to humans are ris­ing from the mass shal­low graves in which they were buried, mul­ti­ple media out­lets report­ed. “As the bodies

North Korean Gymnast Defects By Jumping Over Militarized Border Fence

A North Kore­an gym­nast defect­ed from the coun­try ear­li­er this month by jump­ing over a heav­i­ly for­ti­fied, 10-foot-tall fence that bor­ders the Demil­i­ta­rized Zone (DMZ) sep­a­rat­ing North and South Korea, a South Kore­an offi­cial said Mon­day. The man,

Supporters Rally Around Meghan Markle After Duchess Writes About Pregnancy Loss

Sup­port­ers are prais­ing Meghan Markle for com­ing for­ward and dis­cussing her expe­ri­ence los­ing a preg­nan­cy in July.  In an emo­tion­al essay for The New York Times called “The Loss­es We Share,” that Duchess of Sus­sex wrote that she knew some­thing “was not

Fox News reaches settlement with family of slain DNC staffer

Novem­ber 25, 2020 Fox News reach­es set­tle­ment with fam­i­ly of slain DNC staffer This sto­ry, plus YouTube tem­porar­i­ly sus­pends OANN, Buz­zFeed inher­its diver­si­ty prob­lem in Huff­Post acqui­si­tion, and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Nov

Meghan Markle Describes Having Miscarriage While Holding Baby Archie

Meghan Markle has spo­ken about expe­ri­enc­ing a mis­car­riage in July, detail­ing how she was hold­ing Archie when she real­ized some­thing wasn’t right.  “After chang­ing his dia­per, I felt a sharp cramp. I dropped to the floor with

Facebook struggles internally with how to deal with misinformation

Novem­ber 24, 2020 Face­book strug­gles inter­nal­ly with how to deal with mis­in­for­ma­tion This sto­ry, plus a look at how new busi­ness mod­els have trans­formed some media orga­ni­za­tions, new research shows Amer­i­cans paid close atten­tion as elec­tion returns came

Federal judge rules that VOA appointee unconstitutionally interfered

This sto­ry, plus Vox founder goes to New York Times, the Ad Coun­cil pre­pares for a COVID-19 vac­cine cam­paign and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries­Nov 21, 2020Trump appointee uncon­sti­tu­tion­al­ly inter­fered with VOA, judge rules­David Folken­flik / NPRNov