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Out of Town News, a kiosk in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., is likely to become the latest of the nation’s premier newsstands to close. Credit M. Scott Brauer for The New York Times

Harvard Square Landmark Once Rooted in Print Faces Fight Over Its Future

by Katharine Seelye | Nov 26, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Massachusetts- Julia Child was a regular customer, scouring the Out of Town News kiosk here for German and Italian cooking magazines. John Kenneth Galbraith came to the kiosk every day to buy Le Monde. And in 1975, a young man named Paul Allen picked up a copy of...

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Images of Omran Shock the World and Dominate Global Media

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 20, 2016 | Middle East

News reports on the five year old Syrian child Omran Daqneesh who was dragged from beneath the rubble of his home in the city of Aleppo have dominated global news broadcasts during the past two days. Images of his innocent face stained with blood and dust have...

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Romanian Razvan Cernaianu, formerly known as a hacker by the name of TinKode, works at his laptop in his office in Bucharest in this March 15, 2013 file picture. After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain’s Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. (REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel/Files)

Opinion: Fabricating news in the digital age

by Ali Ibrahim | Jun 4, 2013 | Opinion

Even as it opened up new horizons in the field of information technology and allowed for a rapid exchange of information across the world, the era of the Internet and social media has created a lot of room for misunderstandings. The Internet has often been used to...