Facebook is launching a new initiative this week to encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election, the latest effort by the social network to prove it is a responsible player on the internet. The tech titan will kick off Monday a massive campaign encouraging people to...

Continuing its space buildup, China on Tuesday sent at least nine satellites into space, official media said. The satellites from the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group took off from the Yellow Sea at 9:23 am (0123 GMT), Xinhua News reported. The indigenously-built Long March-11 carrier rocket...

Facebook Inc said Thursday it would stop accepting new political ads in the week before the US presidential election in November, bowing to concern that its loose approach to free speech could once again be exploited to interfere with the vote. The world's biggest social network also said...

Facebook made a mistake in not removing a militia group's page earlier this week that called for armed civilians to enter Kenosha, Wisconsin, amid violent protests after police shot Jacob Blake, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. The page for the "Kenosha Guard" violated Facebook's policies and had...