GEORGE ORWELL

Republicans are pushing an anti-Big Tech message in the midterm campaigns as they look to tap into the resentment toward large technology companies that increasingly courses through their party.

When she was ten, she read O. Henry in hardback. In high school, Orwell was on the summer reading list. Now, it’s "Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel" with her grandsons.

The Department of Homeland Security has paused a new and controversial board’s work on disinformation and has accepted the resignation of its leader.

A newly formed Disinformation Governance Board remains shrouded in secrecy a week after the Biden administration’s announcement of the new effort was met with widespread criticism.

Satire may not win wars but it can boost morale.

The wave of book bannings around the country has reached a level not seen for decades.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., was so worried about the potential for violence on Jan. 6, 2021, that he brought a gun to the Capitol that day, a new book about the Republican Party by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters reveals.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are opening with the same concerns that loomed over the 2008 Beijing Olympics: China's record on human rights and its treatment of Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims in western China.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week.

Pennsylvania is undertaking a comprehensive examination of the stories told by its 2,500 roadside historical markers.

Not everything worked in the first “Venom” film, a darker, slimier spinoff adjacent to Sony Pictures’ “Spider-verse” Marvel world.

But can the increasingly sophisticated gimmicks of “brandlonging” turn fickle consumers into faithful members?

Booksellers at Hong Kong’s annual book fair are offering a reduced selection of books deemed politically sensitive as they look to avoid breaching a sweeping national security law imposed on the city last year.

Tech executives warned that democracy has to win the AI arms race, in a new BBC Panorama.

FILE - In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny described tight controls at his prison in a letter posted Monday March 15, 2021, saying they include hourly checks during the night. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)MOSCOW – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny described tight controls at his prison in a letter posted Monday, saying they include hourly checks during the night. AdLast month, Navalny was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for violating the terms of his probation while convalescing in Germany. “I must acknowledge that the Russian prison system has managed to surprise me,” Navalny wrote.

It meant buying into “alternative facts” — a phrase that spurred sales of George Orwell’s dystopian book “1984” when it was coined by a Trump aide. “I’m shocked to hear that,” Trump told his crowd. “And we now have the greatest, most modern military in the history of our country,” Trump told his Georgia crowd. But the systematic deceptions of the “alternative facts” president were unlike anything before. Attempting to explain her phrase, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said there are alternative ways of arriving at the truth.

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 11, 2020 file photo, pedestrians wearing face masks pass the Bank of England in London. The Bank of England has apologized for the links past governors of the institution had with slavery. The decision comes after two British companies on Thursday, June 18 promised to financially support projects assisting minorities after being called out for past roles in the slave trade. The decision comes after two British companies on Thursday promised to financially support projects assisting minorities after being called out for past roles in the slave trade. It reveals that many businesses, buildings and art collections that still exist today were funded by the proceeds of the slave trade.

Performances of Marians Song are scheduled for 7 p.m. March 5 and 6 at the Wortham Theater Center, 500 Texas. Photo by Katya Horner, Courtesy of Buffalo Bayou PartnershipThe tradition continues as the Buffalo Bayou Partnership Regatta makes its way closer and closer to its golden anniversary. This year celebrate 48 years of racing with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership by participating in the largest canoe and kayak race in the state, with approximately 500 boats and 800 people expected to traverse a 15-mile length of Buffalo Bayou. The Buffalo Bayou Partnership Regatta is scheduled for 9 a.m. March 7 with a starting line at 7700 San Felipe. For more information, visit tmcorchestra.org.