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Congress eyes new rules for tech: What's under consideration 05/08/2023 09:13am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Most Democrats and Republicans agree that the federal government should better regulate the biggest technology companies, particularly social media platforms. But there is very little consensus on how it should be done. Should TikTok be banned? Should younger children be kept off Turkey's opposition denounces fairness of vote under Erdogan 05/08/2023 07:52am • ISTANBUL (AP) ��� As Turkey heads for presidential and parliamentary elections at the weekend that are shaping up to be the strongest challenge to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his 20 years as leader, complaints are growing about the fairness of the vote. Turkey���s opposition has long said tha Source: Investigators examine ideology of Texas gunman 05/08/2023 06:54am • ALLEN, Texas (AP) ��� Federal officials are looking into whether the gunman who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall expressed an interest in white supremacist ideology Sunday as they work to discern a motive for the attack, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official cau How to Find a Room for Rent 05/07/2023 08:00pm • Whether you've recently moved to a new city and you need a place to live or you want to maximize savings and don't want to go through the process of collecting financial documents (think: pay stubs and tax returns), subletting a room can be advantageous. Maybe you're uncertain of how long you'll be How Much You Will Get From Social Security 05/07/2023 08:00pm • It can be difficult to predict how much you will receive from Social Security, especially if you are more than a few years away from retirement. But familiarizing yourself with how your benefit will be calculated can help you budget for retirement and even boost your future Social Security payments. Maryland woman pleads guilty to using false identities to steal more than $500,000 in cellphones 05/07/2023 02:39pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, woman is facing time in federal prison for using stolen identities to get over a half-million dollars in cellphones. According to a news release from the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office, Danisha Thomas, 39, from Bladensburg admitted she acquired the personal in Yellen: 'No good options' if Congress fails to act on debt 05/07/2023 12:55pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that there are ���no good options��� for the United States to avoid an economic ���calamity��� if Congress fails to raise the nation's borrowing limit of $31.381 trillion in the coming weeks. She did not rule out President Joe Biden byp Russians return at judo worlds, Ukraine boycotts 05/07/2023 12:00pm • DOHA, Qatar (AP) ��� Russians returned to international judo competition on Sunday for the first time in nearly a year at the world championships as Ukraine boycotted the key Olympic qualifier. Competing under the name of ���Individual Neutral Athletes,��� the Russians had a slow start in Doha as th Brazil's Amazon megaprojects threaten Lula's green ambitions 05/07/2023 10:07am • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� After his swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 1, Brazil's Luiz In��cio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp to the presidential palace arm in arm with Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, instantly recognizable by his yellow headdress and wooden lip plate. But a major railway that would a Police: 8 killed in Texas mall shooting, gunman also dead 05/07/2023 01:31am • ALLEN, Texas (AP) ��� A gunman stepped out of a silver sedan and started shooting people at a Dallas-area outlet mall Saturday, killing eight and wounding seven others ��� three critically ��� before being killed by a police officer who happened to be nearby, authorities said. Authorities did not 20 Indonesian trafficking victims freed in Myanmar 05/07/2023 01:15am • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) ��� Indonesian officials said Sunday they freed 20 of their nationals who were trafficked to Myanmar as part of a cyber scam, amid an increase in human trafficking cases in Southeast Asia. Indonesia���s Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement that its embassy in Yangon w Burials held in Serbia for some victims of mass shootings 05/06/2023 12:38pm • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) ��� Heart-wrenching cries echoed as funerals were held in Serbia on Saturday for some of the victims of two mass shootings that happened just a day apart this week, leaving 17 people dead and 21 wounded, many of them children. The shootings on Wednesday in a school in Belgrade W.Va. politicos keep fighting over 2020; voters, not so much 05/06/2023 09:48am • CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ��� Some Republican officeholders in West Virginia are already revving up campaigns for governor in 2024. But first, they have to sort out what happened in 2020. Years after Democrat Joe Biden was declared the White House winner, Secretary of State Mac Warner and Attorney Gene New Twitter rules expose election offices to spoof accounts 05/06/2023 08:43am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Tracking down accurate information about Philadelphia's elections on Twitter used to be easy. The account for the city commissioners who run elections, @phillyvotes, was the only one carrying a blue check mark, a sign of authenticity. But ever since the social media platform overha Botticelli's Venus is an 'influencer' and Italy is not happy 05/06/2023 05:08am • ROME (AP) ��� The Italian tourism ministry thought it had a sure-fire way to bring travelers into the country: turning a 15th century art icon into a 21st century ���virtual influencer.��� The digital rendition of Venus, goddess of love, based on Sandro Botticelli���s Renaissance masterpiece ���Bir