Facebook to test letting advertisers avoid topics
Facebook on Friday said it is working on a way to let advertisers avoid having marketing messages appear in feeds alongside content they'd rather not be associated with. The move comes with the massive social network facing pressure from advertisers seeking to avoid toxic content and abusive content on the platform.
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Johnson & Johnson and Novavax COVID vaccines offer promising results
Pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson says its single-shot coronavirus vaccine has proven effective at preventing severe illness in clinical trials. This comes as a new variant of the virus, originally seen in South Africa, has surfaced in the U.S. CBS News' Mola Lenghi reports, and Dr. Annette Reboli of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University joins CBSN's Tanya Rivero to discuss the latest developments.
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March for Life shows how to hold an actually peaceful protest amid a pandemic
Antifa spent most of last year looting and ransacking entire cities under the guise of the Black Lives Matter movement, causing a record $1 billion in damage. Then, this year kicked off with maskless Trump supporters storming the Capitol in the hopes of stealing the election. They failed, of course, and their only success was winding up with five people, including a police officer, dead.
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Warnock gives first sermon as senator-elect after historic win
Rev. Raphael Warnock delivered his first sermon since becoming Georgia's first Black senator, addressing the violence at the U.S. Capitol and giving his congregants hope he can help heal the nation. NBC's Julia Jester reports from the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.
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Eviction protections could have cut COVID-19 deaths by 40.7%, study finds
Policies limiting evictions during the pandemic reduced Covid-19 deaths by 11% and infections by 8% in the U.S. from March through November last year, according to the report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which tracked county-level data. The study also quantified how moratoriums on utility shut-offs also helped to curb COVID-19 infections and deaths.
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Moon to take center stage in February's night sky
The top astronomical events in February will revolve around the moon as Earth's celestial companion swings past several planets and directly through an unofficial constellation only visible in the winter. The weather can be fickle for stargazers during the winter due to frequent cold and cloudy conditions, and the wintry weather has left its mark on the final event of the month, being the main factor behind the event's nickname. When cloud-free...
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Seniors Are Getting These Unsold 2020 SUVs For Dirt Cheap
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House Republicans press University of Pennsylvania and Biden Center on foreign donations
Top Republicans on three key House committees have sent a letter to the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann, inquiring about the school’s close relationship with the Biden family and its ties to China.
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Brooklyn DA to vacate more than 1,000 prostitution warrants
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Friday that he will move to vacate more than 1,000 bench warrants related to prostitution and loitering.The district attorney's office said there were 262 warrants dating back to 2012 vacated this week, the first batch to be dismissed now that Gonzalez will decline to prosecute or dismiss cases on both charges. Another 850 warrants dating back several decades will be dismissed in the future,...
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Japan prime minister says he's determined to hold Olympics
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, despite growing uncertainty as coronavirus cases rise at home, renewed his determination Friday to host the postponed Tokyo Olympics this summer as a symbol of human victory over the pandemic. Suga, speaking from Tokyo at a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum, also called for a transparent investigation by the World Health Organization into the pandemic, saying it is key to learning...
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