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VATICAN CITY (AP)-- The head of the Vatican's communications department resigned Wednesday over a scandal about a letter from the retired pope that he mischaracterized in public and then had...

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The company will begin bankruptcy proceedings, it said, after losing clients and facing mounting legal fees resulting from the scandal over reports the company harvested personal data about millions of Facebook users beginning in 2014.
Why, after a number of Facebook privacy scandals over the past decade, are users finally thinking about why they trust Facebook?
The UK's digital minister, Matt Hancock, has also tweeted about the data misuse scandal — saying he will be meeting Facebook representatives next week and expects the company «to explain why they put the data of over a million of our citizens at risk».
And even if it did turn out to be Trump's funds in the end, this would still give Pecker and AMI massive leverage over him — they'd know all about his sex scandal hush money, so he'd be very motivated to keep them happy.
«I think it's safe to say very simply that Facebook is losing the trust of an awful lot of Americans as a result of this incident,» said Peters, tying his constituents» questions about mobile data mining to their outrage over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
And as The Daily Beast reports, «Zuckerberg declined to face his employees on Tuesday to explain the company's role in a widening international scandal over the 2016 election,» staying away from an internal town hall «held to brief and reassure employees» about the Cambridge Analytica mess.
Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young company matures over time.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before two Senate committees on Tuesday over the Cambridge Analytica scandal and revelations about the platform's role in the dissemination of Russian disinformation during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Comments on next article about child abuse scandal in the church: just over 300.
A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.
And if my suspicion that the move to immaterialism originated in the embarrassment of elite theologians over the scandal of the incarnation is even partly correct, then nothing could be more important for how Christians experience God than to think again about the metaphysics of matter.
Problems abounded: some were getting drunk over the Lord's supper, there were lawsuits among believers, and internal scandals about sex (including incest, promiscuity, prostitution and more!)
And while it's true that every branch of Christianity has been racked with scandal over the years, films like the Oscar - winning Spotlight and Netflix true crime series The Keepers do a much better job of creating compelling art that raises questions about faith and morality.
I'm sorry about that, but I can't get over the idea that, if priests and bishops had been faithful to the teaching of the Church and their sacred vows, there would have been no scandal in the first place.
However, I refuse to believe that at 94 years old, Billy Graham has sold his soul to Mitt's campaign... Over the years there has not been a breath of scandal about the man.
But the drama wasn't over yet; the «liegate» scandal was about to kick off.
RB: Think about the irony of the Murdoch press hacking scandal in the context of the bulk surveillance that we are discussing now, and the way that a public reckoning about that completely unacceptable intrusion into peoples» lives was neatly deflected into a fracas over whether or not regulation would curb the freedom of the press.
Just over a week ago, however, President Trump tweeted about his attorney general and the Clinton email scandal.
«But this from Caroline Nokes comes just after Amber Rudd lost her job for giving inaccurate information in what she knew [about the Windrush scandal], and after the permanent secretary was forced to defend one of his senior officials over accusations of lying to parliament alongside Amber Rudd.»
There's been scandal - the suspension of MP Michelle Thomson over allegations about property deals, the award of a # 150,000 government grant to the organisers of the profitable T in the Park music festival after a meeting brokered by a former SNP adviser - and there's been political ineptitude, most notably when the nationalists were put on the back foot by a Labour pledge to use Holyrood's powers to overturn tax credit cuts.
about Gripedaddy Predicts Demise of Best Buy Weeks Before Company Value Drops $ 2 Billion in Wake of CEO Ouster over Scandal, 50 Stores to Close
This more than anything reveals that the Labour Party have not learnt anything about what the public vocalised during the expenses scandal and remain tethered to the authoritarian instincts they displayed over the last 13 years.
The Trump administration is curbing New York City's ability to spend money on major repairs to its public housing stock in its first major response to deteriorating conditions in the city's public housing and a scandal over false paperwork the city submitted about lead paint inspections.
Washington (CNN)- The wife of Rep. Anthony Weiner returned home from a work trip Wednesday as her husband faced mounting pressure to resign over a «sexting» scandal that he lied about before admitting his involvement.
Everybody meant well, and the crowd was positive about what it did not want: Eliot Spitzer, who, despite entering the race late and resigning as governor over a prostitution scandal, leads Stringer slightly in the polls.
Excitement about Cuomo's announcement has been building in Democratic circles as the impasse over a new state budget worsens and as the attorney general moves to wrap up several high - profile investigations, including the state pension - fund scandal and a probe of embattled Bronx Democratic Sen. Pedro Espada.
Shola Olatoye, the chair and CEO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), talks to In Focus Host Cheryl Wills about the housing authority not conducting lead paint inspections for years, and the scandal over Olatoye falsely submitting paperwork that NYCHA had conducted inspections.
As for his short tenure as governor (just over 14 months, to be exact), there's not a peep about the prostitution scandal that drove Spitzer from office.
Grant Shapps and Lord Feldman should resign over revelations the Conservative party failed to act on complaints about an election aide at the heart of a bullying scandal, says the father of a young activist believed to have killed himself.
Ed had been able to get across the worry a lot of Core labour voters have about immigration concerning work, and not be shouted down as a racist by the likes of Diane Abbott, the way other labour supporters like lord Glasman or rod Liddle have in the past, when as Liddle pointed out lately, it's the rich bosses employing Eastern European workers that have financially benefitted, not the working class, and the mess Cameron has made over Junkter, is nothing to the failure of Ed, to score over Andy Coulson scandal,
ALBANY — Actress Cynthia Nixon continued to hammer Gov. Cuomo over ethics on Monday — but had little to say about Mayor de Blasio's fund - raising scandals.
On the bus, a reporter from Newsday asked Cuomo about the criticism from Republicans over Cuomo's handling of the sexual harassment scandal involving former assemblyman Vito Lopez.
Mayor de Blasio did his best to bury his corruption scandals over the weekend: On Friday, he dropped his long - promised column about donors who didn't get favors from City Hall...
Despite the governor's strong reservations about the plan in place to take over Mr. Silver's duties — and his repeated urging that the scandal not get in the way of the functioning of government — Mr. Cuomo did not call for Mr. Silver to resign his post as speaker, as some, including speaker candidate Assembly Keith Wright, have begun to do this week.
They pay over $ 50.000 on AIDS money to produce this voguing ball and than use the door money as they please, its a huge scandal that the public yet needs to be educated about.
I think the way that Mann and Phil Jones [the former director of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia, who resigned over the scandal] and those guys were going about it was wrong, not just in terms of ethics.
The Bentley Bentayga Diesel is surprising not just because a diesel SUV is about as far from a traditional Bentley as you can get, but because parent Volkswagen is still in the throws of a scandal over excess diesel - exhaust emissions.
Think for a moment about all of the scandals over Chinese reverse mergers with US shell companies — and these are listed in the US!
The source document, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), has been under harsh scrutiny over the past weeks for a number of blunders, including the Climategate scandal, bogus claims about Himalayan glacier melt, false assertions The Netherlands are drowning, deceptive hysteria over conditions in the Amazon, exaggerations of vanishing polar ice caps, and fraudulent cover - up of Chinese temperature data.
He resurrected stories about Murtha's role in the ABSCAM scandal and the «controversy» over his two Purple Hearts, which added up to nothing but rumors spread by political opponents.
And what about Climategate — something about a scandal over temperature data at a university in Britain?
«The Smithsonian is greatly concerned about the allegations surrounding Dr. Willie Soon's failure to disclose funding sources for his climate change research,» they said in a statement shortly after the scandal broke over the weekend.
Pachauri, who led the compilation of some 2,000 of the world's top climate scientists for 13 years, worked to tighten up the credibility of the reports that guide policymakers and survived a scandal five years ago over exaggerated claims about the speed of glaciers retreating.
McInnes delves into scandals related to Peter Toigo and the Expo Lands; the missteps of Minister of Tourism and provincial secretary, Bill Reid («The Blue Box Scandal»), and Hughes» two rounds with Vander Zalm — the first over Fantasy Gardens and the second involving Hughes» defamation suit to rectify Vander Zalm's defamatory comments about Hughes in Vander Zalm's self - published autobiography.
In the wake of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal, experts are warning about the potential dangers of handing over your genetic code to private international corporations.
; DeLay Indicted in Campaign Finance Probe; Frist Knew About Blind Trust Investments; HCA Subpoenaed Over Sen. Frist's Shares; Senate Majority Leader Frist In Insider Trading Scandal?
As the scandals about child rape by priests have multiplied over the last few years, calls for justice in the courts have grown.
Unless you been completely disconnected from the media over the last week, you have undoubtedly heard about the purported scandal arising out of the New England Patriots» alleged deflation of footballs prior to the AFC Championship game.
Much has been written about the NSA / Prism communications monitoring scandal over the last few days, including Simon's recent post.
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