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Conservative firebrand Candace Owens is celebrating her first major victory in her legal battle against Facebook's "fact-checkers. "Owens, a political author and commentator, challenged Facebook's left-leaning fact-checking partner PolitiFact over a “false” rating — and won.

(RNN) – What’s wrong with our eyesight and hearing? We’ve got some serious issues. First, it was “the dress.” Was it black and blue or white and gold? Then, there was the whole Yanni vs. Laurel thing. Which did you hear? Warning: This story contains a Twitter post that some may find offensive. Now, folks are flipping out because they think they heard loveable Grover drop the F-bomb on “Sesame Street.” Just remember, we’re talking about a children’s TV show here.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski testified Wednesday that his agency takes calls to cancel Fox's broadcast licenses "very seriously." Groups, including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), have urged the FCC to pull Fox's licenses because of evidence that its parent company News Corp. hacked people's phones in the United Kingdom to get stories. During a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) pressed Genachowski on whether he plans to do anything about the allegations. Genachowski said it wouldn't be appropriate to comment on a specific case, but that the commission is "certainly...