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Congress sends Biden a bill that could ban TikTok – after the 2024 election

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WASHINGTON — Tucked inside the sprawling $95 billion national security package headed to President Joe Biden’s...
WASHINGTON — Tucked inside the sprawling $95 billion national security package headed to President Joe Biden’s desk is a provision that could ban TikTok, with an important catch: It won’t happen before the 2024 election.That means TikTok, which boasts 170 million American users, will remain a force throughout the ca...
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Facebook users say 'amen' to bizarre AI-generated images of Jesus

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The vast majority of the synthetic images do not indicate in the posts or on the...
The vast majority of the synthetic images do not indicate in the posts or on the pages that they are AI-generated, even though Meta requires users to label AI-generated content on its platforms while it is working toward methods to automatically detect such content.Meta did not respond to a request for comment.As ge...
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US Senate renews FISA law moments after it expires

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WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool the U.S. government describes as...
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted to reauthorize a powerful surveillance tool the U.S. government describes as critical to combating terrorism, after defeating efforts by civil liberties advocates on the left and right to rein it in.The vote of 60-34 sends the bill to President Joe Biden, who has championed it. The legi...
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US House passes bill to ban TikTok if owners won't divest

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Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform

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The automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X,...
The automaker Hyundai said it had paused its advertising on Elon Musk’s social media app, X, after a sponsored post from the company appeared next to antisemitic and pro-Nazi posts.Hyundai confirmed the pause in a statement to NBC News late Wednesday and said it was taking its brand safety concerns to Musk’s company...
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Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk

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Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing...
Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Adolf Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime. NBC News found that at least 150 paid “Premium” subscriber X accounts and thousands of unpaid accounts have posted or amplified pro-Nazi content on X in re...
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Metabolism in adulthood does not slow as commonly believed, study finds

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Blaming those extra pounds on a slowing metabolism as you age? Not so fast.A new international...
Blaming those extra pounds on a slowing metabolism as you age? Not so fast.A new international study counters the common belief that our metabolism inevitably declines during our adult lives. Well, not until we’re in our 60s, anyway.Researchers found that metabolism peaks around age 1, when babies burn calories 50 p...
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Many cancer drugs remain unproven 5 years after accelerated approval

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s accelerated approval program is meant to give patients early access to promising drugs. But how often do these drugs actually improve or extend patients’ lives?In a new study, researchers found that most cancer drugs granted accelerated approval do not demonstrate such benefit...
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Taiwan was well prepared for a big earthquake — more so than parts of US

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The powerful earthquake in Taiwan on Wednesday shook an island that was well prepared for a...
The powerful earthquake in Taiwan on Wednesday shook an island that was well prepared for a seismic catastrophe — likely more so than some regions of the U.S., several experts said. Nine people have been reported dead, though Taiwanese officials said the death toll could rise in the coming days. More than 1,000 were...
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Washington State judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence

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A Washington state judge overseeing a triple murder case barred the use of video enhanced by...
A Washington state judge overseeing a triple murder case barred the use of video enhanced by artificial intelligence as evidence in a ruling that experts said may be the first-of-its-kind in a United States criminal court.The ruling, signed Friday by King County Superior Court Judge Leroy McCullogh and first reporte...
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Judge throws out Elon Musk's X lawsuit against nonprofit

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed last year by...
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday threw out a lawsuit filed last year by Elon Musk’s X platform against the nonprofit organization Center for Countering Digital Hate. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the lawsuit and wrote that it was an attempt to silence the center for its reports about rising h...
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Fewer people are using Elon Musk's X as the platform struggles to attract users

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The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire...
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter. Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but i...
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Over 440k Starbucks holiday mugs recalled for burn and cut hazards

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X bans revealing naming anonymous users after scrutiny of antisemitic cartoonist

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Elon Musk’s X changed its privacy policy this week to ban users from publishing the real...
Elon Musk’s X changed its privacy policy this week to ban users from publishing the real names of people behind anonymous accounts after some users appeared to unmask a pseudonymous cartoonist who drew antisemitic images. The social media platform updated its privacy policy to say people “cannot share … the identity...
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Crime stories drove readers to GoFundMe campaigns, only the victims didn't exist

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In early March, a tragic story showed up on NewsBreak, a website that aggregates local news...
In early March, a tragic story showed up on NewsBreak, a website that aggregates local news from across the country. In a series of articles, the author reported on a hit-and-run accident that had left two people dead: Herman Cruz and his 4-year-old daughter, Amelia. Herman had been driving Amelia to her cancer trea...
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A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque was found in 50% of colon cancers

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A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque may be behind a treatment-resistant form of colorectal...
A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque may be behind a treatment-resistant form of colorectal cancer, a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature found.Sasirin Pamai / Getty ImagesThe particular bacterium, which appears to shield tumor cells from cancer-fighting drugs, was found in 50% of the tumors test...
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More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2023–more than any year on record

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Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce immigration law

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce for now a contentious new...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce for now a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants.The conservative-majority court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which said states have no authority...
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Target sets a limit on self-checkout items

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Target is set to limit the number of items that can be purchased in its self-checkout...
Target is set to limit the number of items that can be purchased in its self-checkout lanes to 10 items or fewer.The retail giant said Friday that the change would take effect Sunday at most of its almost 2,000 stores nationwide. Some self-checkout lanes may also close entirely at certain hours depending on foot tra...
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Boeing 737-800 was missing an external panel when it landed in Oregon

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A United Airlines-operated Boeing 737-800 was missing an external panel when it landed in Medford, Oregon,...
A United Airlines-operated Boeing 737-800 was missing an external panel when it landed in Medford, Oregon, on Friday, the airline said in a statement.No injuries were reported, no emergency was declared, and there was no indication of a problem during the flight. The Federal Aviation Administration said it's investi...
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12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned

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Every day for the last 12 months, the world’s sea surface temperatures have broken records.Ocean scientists...
Every day for the last 12 months, the world’s sea surface temperatures have broken records.Ocean scientists are growing increasingly concerned. “It’s not just an entire year of record-breaking ocean temperatures, but it’s the margin it’s breaking them by — it’s not even close to what the previous record was,” said B...
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Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores

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Lead in gasoline blunted IQ of half the U.S. population, study says

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Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States,...
Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates.The peer-reviewed study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on people born before 1996 — the year the U.S. banned gas containing lead.Overall, the ...
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A 'cowboy ski town' where high earners can't afford a home faces housing battle

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A pandemic-fueled real estate boom in mountain and resort locales is pricing out even high-income professionals...
A pandemic-fueled real estate boom in mountain and resort locales is pricing out even high-income professionals and dividing communities over how to rein in housing costs.Houses dot the landscape at Colorado's Steamboat Ski Resort on Aug. 3, 2022, in Steamboat Springs, Colo.Thomas Peipert / AP fileMarch 3, 2024, 1:0...
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