Geography of Hate map shows hotspot near The Dalles
Time: Humboldt State University professor Monica Stephens and a team of researchers combined Google Map’s API with homophobic, racist and prejudiced tweets to create the “Geography of Hate” map.
Time: Humboldt State University professor Monica Stephens and a team of researchers combined Google Map’s API with homophobic, racist and prejudiced tweets to create the “Geography of Hate” map.
Reuters: Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs.
AP: Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale.
Portland unemployment fell in April in step with the national average.
Salon.com: Teen activist Benjamin O’Keefe’s petition calling on Abercrombie & Fitch to stop discriminating against people above a size 10 quickly seems to have caught the attention of company CEO Mike Jeffries.
CBSnews.com: A monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.
The Washington Post: A Senate investigation has concluded that Apple was able to avoid paying taxes on tens of billions of offshore income with a web of entities that had no employees or offices.
USA Today: Yahoo will pay $1.1 billion in cash for social media blogging site Tumblr.
Cbsnews.com: Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are trying to change that by creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are buying and eating.
CNN.com: Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through Monday.