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Kim Kardashian suing over MediaTakeOut for claims she faked Paris robbery

Kim Kardashian is suing gossip website MediaTakeOut.com for indicating she faked being robbed and assaulted in Paris earlier this month, according…

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News & Observer on Trial for Libel

The Raleigh News & Observer newspaper is fighting a libel lawsuit over its 2010 investigative reporting that included claims that a…

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Billy Bush suspended over Trump Access Hollywood tape

NBC's Today show suspended host Billy Bush, former president George H.W. Bush's nephew and cousin to former president George W. Bush…

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Weather Channel Anchor says Children in Haiti eat Trees in Hurricane Matthew Coverage, Apologizes

The Weather Channel's Jennifer Delgado apologized after saying that Haitian children eat trees. What prompted her inaccurate comments? Delgado was talking…

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Globe & Mail Stands by Story on Racial Slurs at Orioles-BlueJays Game

It was fair and accurate for the Globe and Mail to report that some fans attending a Baltimore Orioles-Toronto Blue…

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Welsh Editor Fined for Naming 17-Year-Old Charged for Crashing Boat

A Welsh editor, Thomas Sinclair of the Pembrokeshire Herald, was fined after he named a minor who was charged after he…

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Why Honolulu Civil Beat Published Video of Mayor’s ‘Profanity-Laced Toast’

The Honolulu Civil Beat published a video of Hawai'i Island Mayor Billy Kenoi giving a "profanity-laced toast" that showed him…

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BuzzFeed Hacked after story IDing OurMine Hacker, ‘Several Posts’ Edited

The secretive hacking group known as OurMine sabotaged BuzzFeed's website and changed "several posts" on Oct. 5, BuzzFeed reported yesterday. According…

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Fox News’ Jesse Watters apologizes after Asian American Journalists Association complaint over election segment ‘rife with racist stereotypes’

The Asian American Journalists Association called for Fox News to apologize for a segment that was "rife with racist stereotypes,…

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NZ Radio Host Miles Davis Complains over Spinoff Homophobic Article

New Zealand news site The Spinoff called a radio host named Miles Davis homophobic but didn't include any evidence for…

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