Facebook has bowed to an outcry over content promoting violence against women after advertisers pulled ads in protest.
The company said on Tuesday it would update its policies on hate speech, increase accountability of content creators and train staff to be more responsive to complaints, marking a victory for women's rights activists. "We need to do better – and we will," it said in a statement.
Facebook gives way to campaign against promoting violence toward women
California environmentalists fear frack fight a distraction
As California sets the ground rules for drilling in the Monterey oil formation, a hard-to-reach shale reserve that is the largest in the United States, some environmentalists worry that politicians, regulators and fellow activists are fighting the wrong battle.
The state regulator is hammering out rules for hydraulic fracturing, while the legislature is debating 10 bills on the practice. The drilling technique known as "fracking" has caused so much concern about environmental problems that it is the subject of a Hollywood movie. But most Monterey drillers employ another technique using acid, and only one bill under consideration would regulate that method.
Marines investigated for online threats against Pres. Obama
A former Marine and several active duty Marines are being investigated for online threats against U.S. President Barack Obama, law enforcement officials said.
The Marines are being investigated by the Secret Service, USA Today said Monday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the case. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie said the agency doesn't comment publicly on presidential protection.
Wal-Mart pleads guilty in Calif hazardous waste
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has pleaded guilty to charges the company dumped hazardous waste in California.
A company spokeswoman says Wal-Mart entered the plea Tuesday in San Francisco federal court to misdemeanor counts of negligently dumping pollutants from Walmart stores into sanitation drains across California.
Supreme Court Declines Review Of Planned Parenthood Case
In the first Planned Parenthood defunding case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, a lower court decision that barred Indiana from stripping Medicaid payments to the organization.
More than a dozen states have enacted or considered laws that bar Planned Parenthood from receiving any Medicaid payments for treating poor women. The laws target the organization because it also provides privately funded abortion services in about 3 percent of its cases.
Train derails in Maryland, explosion reported
Hazmat crews are on the scene of a train derailment and explosion in Baltimore County. Baltimore County fire officials said a CSX train derailed in the areaof the 7500 block of Lake Drive near 66th Street in Rosedale at 2:02 p.m. Tuesday.
According to Baltimore County Public Safety officials Twitter account, preliminary reports indicate several buildings collapsed at site of train derailment.
So far, no injuries have been reported. The cause of the incident is not immediately known.
Feds in NY charge 7 in $6B digital currency money-laundering case; Costa Rica, Spain arrests
The founder of an online currency transfer business was indicted in the United States along with six other people in a $6 billion money-laundering scheme described as “staggering” in its scope, authorities said Tuesday.
Arthur Budovsky is the founder of Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based website long favored by cybercrime scammers. He was arrested in Spain on Friday. A defendant identified as Budovsky’s partner, Vladimir Kats, was in custody in New York.
Gas Industry Successfully Overturns Colorado Fracking Ban
The townspeople in Fort Collins were greeted with some unfortunate news earlier this week, as their city council decided to overturn a ban on hydraulic fracturing that had been in place for only a few short months. The decision to overturn the ban was based solely on the threat of a lawsuit from the oil and gas industry.
The mere threat of a lawsuit from the only fracking company in town – Prospect Energy – was enough to send the city council cowering in submission, placing the entire town at risk of the negative health impacts associated with fracking.
Cops: U.S. Marine goes on shooting spree
Authorities say Marine from Camp Lejeune was killed and a sheriff wounded after a central Texas gunbattle with police ended a shooting spree that left one other person dead and five injured.
The suspected gunman was identified as Esteban J. Smith, 23, who was stationed at the Marine Corps base in North Carolina, the Texas Department of Public Safety said in a statement Monday.
He was declared dead following a shootout with authorities in Concho County, the department said.
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