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 WASHINGTON  AP  鈥?With next week   election looming, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google were scolded by Republicans at a Senate hearing Wednesday for alleged anti-conservative bias in the companies ; social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.Watch the hearing in the player above.Lawmakers of both parties are assessing the companies ; tremendous power to disseminate speech and ideas, and are looking to challenge their long-enjoyed聽bedrock legal protections聽for online speech.The Trump administration, seizing on unfounded accusations of bias against conservative views, has asked Congress to strip some of the protections that have generally shielded the tech companies from legal responsibility for what people post on their platforms. The time has come for that free pass to end,  said Sen. Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Wicker, R-Miss.,  stanley cup said the laws governing online speech must be updated because  the open stanley cup ness and freedom of the internet are under attack. He spoke at the opening of the hearing as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook   Mark Zuckerberg and Google   Sundar Pichai waited to stanley cup  testify via video.Wicker cited the move this month by Facebook and Twitter to limit dissemination of an聽unverified political story聽from the conservative-leaning New York Post about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The story, which was not confirmed by other public Nuwo In St. Louis, a new reparations report details how the city can act on racial injustice
 ROME  AP  鈥?Four Swiss Guards have tested positive for coronavirus and were showing symptoms, the Vatican said Monday, as the surge in infections in surrou salomon nding Italy penetrates the Vatican walls.The Swiss Guards, the worlds oldest standing army, provide ceremonial guard duty during papal Masses, man the Vatican gates and help protect the 83-year-old Pope Francis.The four are in isolation while their contac stanley cup ts are being traced, the Vatican said Monday. They join three other Vatican residents who tested positive in recent weeks plus the dozen or so Holy See officials who tested positive during the first wave of the outbreak.Despite the positive cases among his own guards, Francis on Monday was seen once again without a mask. He warmly greeted Cardinal George Pell in his private studio, and neither man wore a mask. Also unmasked were Pells secretary and the Vatican photographer.READ MORE: Why Americans have grown more hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccineFrancis, who lost part of one lung to illness when he was a young man, has drawn sharp criti adidas samba cism in social media for shunning a mask during his Wednesday general audience, held last week indoors. He was seen shaking hands with clerics and otherwise mingling with the masked crowd. His bodyguards were similarly maskless.Italy is seeing a sharp surge in COVID-19 cases, with the Lazio region around the Vatican among the worst-hit in this second wave of the pandemic. Lazio currently has more people hospitalized with the virus than any

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 Newly-released Defense Department documents a kubki stanley nd memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.President Barack Obama has ordered the detention facility closed next year. It holds more than 200 terror susp stanley cup uk ects whose cases are undergoing review for their potential release, prosecution or continued confinement.The documents and memos were turned over to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The ACLU has sued for release of all materials related to the government s interrogation program after the terrorist attacks of S stanley flasche ept. 11, 2001. These documents provide further evidence of the widespread and systemic abuse of prisoners conducted at Guantanamo Bay and other overseas locations,  said Amrit Singh, a staff attorney with the ACLU.  They further underscore the need for a congressional select committee to examine the roots of the torture program as well as an independent prosecutor to investigate issues of criminal responsibility. One of the newly-released documents, from 2005, is the statement of one of the first commanders of Guantanamo to another general who was investigating allegations of prisoner abuse lodged by the FBI. The now-retired Maj. Gen. Michael Dunleavy commanded the Guantanamo interrogation operation in 2002.        Dunleavy described the chaos he found when he arrived: a la Czas The Odd and Mesmerizing Aerial Photos of Klaus Leidorf
 Newly crowned king of all sexy scifi series, The CW is rolling out five new trailers for their new crop of TV shows. Get the first look at The 1oo  including your first look at the mutant deer from the book series that inspired the show , The Origi stanley cup becher nals and new footage from The Tomorrow People and Star-Crossed.     https://gizmodo/first-official-pics-of-tomorrow-people-the-100-and-sta-507547799  https://youtube/watch v=Bum7f5XAbkE The 100 First up is the trailer for The 100, based on the series by Kass Morgan. The plot centers around a group of 100 juvenile delinquents sent to Earth to repopulate on the planet   destroyed surface because they are expendable. Here   the trailer and official synopsis: Ninety-seven years ago, nuclear Armageddon decimated planet Earth, destroying civilization. The only survivors were the 400 inhabitants of 12 international space stations that were in orbit at the time. Thre stanley water jug e generations have been born in space, the survivors now number 4,000, and resources are running out on their dying  Ark   the 12 stations now linked together and repurposed to keep the survivors alive. Draconian measures including capital punishment and population cont stanley thermobecher rol are the order of the day, as the leaders of the Ark take ruthless steps to ensure their future, including secretly exiling a group of 100 juvenile prisoners to the Earths surface to test whether its habitable. For the first time in nearly a century, humans have returned to plan