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Lessons learned from 2016, but US faces new election threats

  • By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press
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It’s been more than three years since Russia's sweeping and systematic effort to interfere in U.S. elections through disinformation on social media, stolen campaign emails and attacks on voting systems. U.S. officials have made advances in trying to prevent similar attacks from undermining t…

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New documentary cloaks anonymous sources in 'face doubles'

  • By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — In documentaries, anonymous sources have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure — or worse, a pixelated blur. But a new documentary premiering Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival has, with the aid of advanced digital technology, gone to greater length…

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One year on, Brazilian city haunted by deadly dam collapse

  • By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Associated Press
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Like she has so many other nights, Ana María Gomes is awakened by the cries of her husband and tries to calm him as he shouts for help from his mine coworkers. She convinces him the dam collapse that devastated their city of Brumadinho and killed at least 270 people hap…