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A Cosmopolitan magazine from November 1976. Since being rebranded as a women's magazine in 1965, it has become a mainstay of shopping aisles. Walmart said Tuesday it is removing Cosmo from its check-out lines.

Walmart To Remove 'Cosmopolitan' From Checkout Aisle

11:13am March 28, 2018

by Scott Neuman

The retail giant said Tuesday that Cosmo would be relegated to the magazine rack of its U.S. stores. The move follows complaints over what critics say is the magazine's "hyper-sexualized" content.

Friday News Roundup - Domestic

1:13pm March 23, 2018

Zuckerberg apologized and Marlon Bundo topped the charts.

National

AT&T And Justice Department Meet In Court Over Potential Time Warner Deal

4:36pm March 22, 2018

by David Folkenflik

After months of build-up, lawyers for AT&T and the Justice Department squared off in court Thursday over the potential $85 billion deal for Time Warner. The Justice Department says it will hurt competition and drive up cable TV subscription prices.

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"My career defining moment would be covering South Africa," said Les Payne, center, seen here as part of a Meet the Press panel during his time at Newsday.

National

Les Payne, Pulitzer Prize-Winner And NABJ Founder, Dies At 76

2:42pm March 22, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

He committed himself to improving conditions for African Americans saying "I saw myself as a kind of lead pipe in the hands of people who did not otherwise have a weapon to counter such things."

Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook.

National

Zuckerberg Breaks Silence, Promises To Protect Facebook Community

10:21pm March 21, 2018

by Richard Gonzales

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his first responses, followed by a CNN appearance, after the controversy surrounding reports that Cambridge Analytica exploited users' data without their knowledge,

Opening Arguments Begin In AT&T And Time Warner Merger Case

5:11am March 21, 2018

by David Folkenflik

Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice and AT&T square off in opening arguments this week over whether AT&T's proposed takeover of media conglomerate Time Warner hurts consumers.

A memorial to slain journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnírová, has been set up in the lobby of Aktuality.sk. Since they were killed, the news site's office building has been guarded by the police and private security guards.

World News

Slovakia Government's Collapse Not Enough To End Protests Over Journalist's Murder

3:21pm March 20, 2018

by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson

An investigative journalist and his fiancée were killed, sparking a political upheaval. But that failed to quell the largest protests in the Central European country since the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

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Attacked By Alt-Right Trolls, A Jewish Journalist Links Trump To The Rise Of Hate

1:47pm March 19, 2018

by Terry Gross

Trump "has made nationalist policy into the policy of the executive branch," says New York Times editor Jonathan Weisman. His new book, (((Semitism))), is about being Jewish in the Trump era.

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Science

Spot Fake News By Making It

8:03am March 18, 2018

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Sander van der Linden of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab about his online game which tries to teach players about fake news by making them produce it.

ProPublica has issued a correction and apology for its 2017 article about Gina Haspel, a CIA veteran who is President Trump's pick to head the CIA.

National

ProPublica Corrects Its Story On Trump's CIA Nominee Gina Haspel And Waterboarding

4:58pm March 16, 2018

by Bill Chappell

The investigative and fact-checking newsroom is retracting parts of its story that had resurfaced after Gina Haspel was picked by President Trump to lead the CIA.

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