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With charges and sanctions, US takes aim at Russian disinformation ahead of November election 09/04/2024 09:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Biden administration seized Kremlin-run websites and charged two Russian state media employees in its most sweeping effort yet to push back against what it says are Russian attempts to spread disinformation ahead of the November presidential election. The measures, which in a A Checklist for Choosing the Best CCRC Facility 09/04/2024 08:00pm • Choosing the right continuing care retirement community (CCRC) is a major decision that can shape the next chapter of your life or that of a loved one. CCRCs offer everything from independent housing, such as cottages or apartments and assisted living to skilled nursing care and memory care options. ���Fake heiress��� Anna Sorokin will compete on ���Dancing With the Stars��� amid deportation battle 09/04/2024 05:37pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Anna Sorokin, the con artist who was convicted of swindling banks, hotels and friends in 2019 after falsely building a reputation as a wealthy German heiress named Anna Delvey, has found her newest venture: ���Dancing With the Stars.��� Described as the ���notorious ankle bracel An appeals court upholds a ruling that an online archive's book sharing violated copyright law 09/04/2024 05:30pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers' permission. Four major publishers ��� Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons and Pengui She made ���very demure��� go viral. Now she wants to trademark its use 09/04/2024 05:14pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� ���Very demure, very mindful��� has become the latest vocabulary defining the internet���s summer. And TikTok creator Jools Lebron is working to trademark uses of her now-viral words. Lebron filed to trademark ���very demure very mindful��� for various entertainment and advertising US government announces criminal charges, seizure of internet domains arising from Russian effort to influence election 09/04/2024 01:43pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� US government announces criminal charges, seizure of internet domains arising from Russian effort to influence election. There's no X in Brazil. Celebrity fandom worldwide is in disarray 09/04/2024 01:18pm • It was a rapture and a revelation all at the same time. En masse, celebrity stan accounts posted tearful farewells over the weekend as X was suspended in Brazil amid a showdown between Elon Musk and a Supreme Court justice. Many of their hundreds of thousands of followers learned only then that thei What to know about Israel���s major weeklong raid in the West Bank city of Jenin 09/04/2024 11:37am • For more than a week, hundreds of Israeli forces have carried out the deadliest operation in the occupied West Bank since the war in Gaza began. Their focus has been the Jenin refugee camp ��� a bastion of Palestinian militancy that has grown more fervent since the Hamas attack on Israel that launch Musk's Starlink backtracks and says it will comply with judge's order to block X in Brazil 09/03/2024 07:13pm • SAO PAULO (AP) ��� Elon Musk���s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice's order to block the billionaire���s social media platform, X. Starlink said in a statement posted on X that it will heed Justice Ale Editorial Roundup: United States 09/03/2024 06:28pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Aug. 30 The Washington Post says as EV sales stall, focus on hybrids The recent announcement by Ford Motor Co. that it was abandoning plans to roll out a large electric SUV seems like another warning flag that the early electric v All-black outfits, hoodies, Crocs, cell phones and mirrors. Some students are returning to school with new bans in effect 09/03/2024 01:17pm • (CNN) ��� It���s a new school year ��� and with a new school year comes new rules. Cell phone bans, dress code changes ��� in some cases banning hoodies and all-black clothing ��� and even the removal of mirrors from school bathrooms are among the changes schools across America are making in the China-linked 'Spamouflage' network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate 09/03/2024 12:56pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� When he first emerged on social media, the user known as Harlan claimed to be a New Yorker and an Army veteran who supported Donald Trump for president. Harlan said he was 29, and his profile picture showed a smiling, handsome young man. A few months later, Harlan underwent a tr Clearview AI fined $33.7 million by Dutch data protection watchdog over 'illegal database' of faces 09/03/2024 06:02am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) ��� The Dutch data protection watchdog on Tuesday issued facial recognition startup Clearview AI with a fine of 30.5 million euros ($33.7 million) over its creation of what the agency called an ���illegal database��� of billion of photos of faces. The Netherlands' Data Pr Brazil Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds judge's decision to block X nationwide 09/03/2024 12:05am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� A Brazilian Supreme Court panel on Monday unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk���s social media platform X nationwide, according to the court���s website. The broader support among justices undermines the effort by Musk and his AI may not steal many jobs after all. It may just make workers more efficient 09/02/2024 12:53pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Imagine a customer-service center that speaks your language, no matter what it is. Alorica, a company in Irvine, California, that runs customer-service centers around the world, has introduced an artificial intelligence translation tool that lets its representatives talk with cus