CHEAT SHEET

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1
R.F.K. Jr.’s Old Environmental Pals Tell Him to Get Lost
‘A VOTE TO DESTROY’
“His actions are a betrayal to our environment,” the candidate’s former mentor said of him.
2
Iconic Hotel From ‘The Shining’ Goes Up in Flames
HORROR LEGEND
Crews responded late Thursday night to an attic fire at the famous Oregon lodge.

4
John Cleese Cancels His Own Cancel Culture Show
‘AD ABSURDUM’
The “Monty Python” star has stalled the show for three years.
5
Susan Sarandon Joins Protesters at Columbia University
‘THE TRUTH WILL WIN’
“Especially in a place of education, and supposedly higher thought, to be attacked with racism and intolerance is not acceptable,” the actress said.

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Facebook Patents News Feed

STATUS UPDATE

Updated Apr. 25, 2017 10:53AM EDT / Published Feb. 26, 2010 12:03PM EST

Facebook has always made it clear that it does not like imitators. And now it will be able to do something about them. The social-networking Web site may be able to sue others that violate the patent it was just granted for streaming “feed” technology. The news feed, lambasted when Facebook first rolled it out in late 2006, is now a model that has spread to social-networking sites all over the Web and, for instance, is at the very essence of sites such Twitter.