In a shocking shift of new developments, it appears that the vast majority of Americans no longer support democracy and would prefer another form of government instead. The alternatives to democracy is only authoritarian nationalism or authoritarian communism or monarchy. There are only 3 alternatives so either way, whichever is their preferred alternative, democracy sure is dead in America. AP: Only... 

Two of Facebook’s US “fact-checkers” tasked with keeping fake news from proliferating have chosen to quit doing the job for the social media giant while issuing cryptic statements concerning their continuing relationship. Snopes and the Associated Press have both ended their fact-checking partnerships with Facebook, releasing carefully-worded statements that leave open the possibility of future... 

After the AP and Mexican media reported that Trump had threatening to send the US military to chase “bad hombres” out of Mexico in a phone call with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, the Mexican government has slammed the claim as “a downright lie.” The statement “did not happen during that call,” the Mexican government said on Twitter. “I know it with absolute certainty, there... 

The president of the Associated Press has sent a letter of protest to US Attorney General Eric Holder over the Department of Justice’s broad surveillance of individual reporters’ phone conversations. In a letter received by the AP on Friday, the Justice Department acknowledged but offered no explanation for the seizure of two months’ worth of telephone records of reporters and editors....