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Basira Joya, 20, a news presenter, sits during recording at the Zan TV station (women's TV) in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 30, 2017. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outlet said on Thursday.

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The Taliban say Afghan female TV anchors must cover their faces on air

The order came from the Taliban's Virtue and Vice Ministry as well as from the Information and Culture Ministry. Earlier this month, the Taliban ordered women in public to wear head-to-toe clothing.

May 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
On Sunday, a woman lights a candle at a makeshift memorial to the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at Tops market in Buffalo, N.Y.

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  • Arts & Life

Some are calling the Buffalo suspect a 'teenager.' Is that a privilege of his race?

The white supremacist suspect in Buffalo is 18 years old. Some news organizations and commentators have called him a "teenager" and "child" rather than a "man."

May 17, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
GPB News NPR

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  • Middle East

Israeli police use stun grenades and hit mourners at procession for slain journalist

Israeli police fought to block a funeral march for Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh just outside of the Old City of Jerusalem.

May 14, 2022
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  • Daniel Estrin
Elon Musk says he wants to see more details about the number of fake accounts on Twitter before his deal to buy the social media platform goes through. He's seen here last week, arriving for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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  • Media

Elon Musk says he's put the blockbuster Twitter deal on pause over fake accounts

The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated.

May 13, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond and
  • Bill Chappell
GPB News NPR

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  • Media

Has Tucker Carlson created the most racist show in the history of cable news?

The NY Times did an exhaustive survey of the Fox News host's broadcasts. Reporter Nicholas Confessore says Carlson's show is based on ideas that were once "caged in a dark corner of American life."

May 12, 2022
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  • Dave Davies
Women watch an Al Jazeera obituary report on TV at the family home of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Israeli-occupied east Jerusalem on Wednesday, after she was killed as she covered an Israeli army raid on Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

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  • Middle East

Al Jazeera's Shireen Abu Akleh is killed while reporting on an Israeli raid

Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old U.S. citizen, had been covering a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp "when she was shot in the face by a single bullet, despite wearing a press vest," Al Jazeera said.

May 11, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell and
  • Daniel Estrin
Left to right: Elon Musk and Donald Trump

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  • Business

Elon Musk says he'll reverse Donald Trump Twitter ban

The billionaire said it was a "mistake" for the social network to ban the former president after the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection.

May 10, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond
Journalists conduct interviews on the doorstep of an hotel on Maidan Square on March 1, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Pulitzer Prize Board is honoring the courage and commitment of Ukranian journalists.

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  • Media

Ukranian journalists win a Pulitzer citation for their courage and persistence

At least seven journalists have been killed while covering the war in Ukraine, while many face shelling, shooting and detention on the job. They were recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday.

May 10, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Journalists protest to draw attention to the latest wave of journalist killings, at the Angel of Independence monument in Mexico City, May 9, 2022.

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  • World

3 journalists have been killed over 3 days in Mexico

In 2021, seven reporters were killed in Mexico, making it the most dangerous country for journalists, according to data compiled by Reporters Without Borders.

May 10, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Winner praises the Pulitzer board's commitment to the 'heart' in journalism

Maria Hinojosa recorded years of conversations with a man who never expected to get out of prison. Then he did. On Monday, Suave, a podcast about his incarceration and release won a Pulitzer.

May 10, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
Tampa Bay Times reporters Corey G. Johnson, right, Rebecca Woolington, center, and Eli Murray, left, are announced as the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting on Monday. The winning series, "Poisoned," exposed dangers at Florida's only lead smelter.

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  • Arts & Life

Here are the 2022 Pulitzer Prize news winners

The 2022 Pulitzer Prize awards were spread across a wide range of newsrooms and subjects, from toxic workplace hazards to the Jan. 6 attack.

May 10, 2022
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  • Vanessa Romo
Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.

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  • Media

'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.

May 09, 2022
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  • David Folkenflik
Google has expanded its policies to make it easier for people to request personal contact information be removed from online search results.

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  • Technology

You can now ask Google to take your personal data out of its search results

Anyone who doesn't want their phone number, email or street address to be found online can ask Google to omit the data from its search results.

May 02, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
Amber Heard has filed a countersuit against Johnny Depp, seeking $100 million in damages and saying his legal team falsely accused her of fabricating claims against Depp. The former couple are seen here in court last week.

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  • Law

The ACLU says Amber Heard has paid less than half of her $3.5 million donation pledge

The actor made the pledge as she ended her marriage to Johnny Depp, saying she would split $7 million between the ACLU and a children's hospital. Depp's defamation case against Heard is ongoing.

April 30, 2022
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  • Bill Chappell
The Netflix logo is seen on top of their office building in Hollywood, Calif. The streaming service has laid off some employees of its companion website called Tudum.

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  • Television

Netflix promised good jobs at Tudum. Now, one of its teams has been laid off

Yesterday, Netflix laid off some of its staff, many of them recently hired women of color. They were working on its new fan-focused website.

April 29, 2022
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  • Mandalit del Barco
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