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Nigerians are frustrated by economic hardship but authorities fear planned protests could turn ugly 07/31/2024 03:28pm • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� Frustrated with growing economic hardships, Nigerians are planning nationwide protests this week against the country���s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. And with momentum soaring on social media, authorities fear a replay of the deadly 2020 demonstrations against Microsoft says that a cyberattack triggered the hours-long outage impacting Azure customers 07/31/2024 02:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A global Microsoft Azure outage that impacted a range of services for consumers Tuesday ��� from reports of stalling Outlook emails to trouble ordering on Starbucks' mobile app ��� was triggered by a distributed denial of service cyberattack, according to the tech giant. Microsoft Bangladesh mourns some 200 deaths as student protests wind down and thousands are arrested 07/31/2024 11:22am • DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) ��� Bangladesh observed a day of mourning Tuesday in memory of more than 200 people killed in recent weeks during violence that evolved from student protests over the South Asian country's quota system for government jobs. After weeks of peaceful protests by students looking t Hong Kong hits back at Italy's protest against fencer Cheung's win with posts on pineapple pizza 07/31/2024 06:30am • HONG KONG (AP) ��� Hong Kong fencer Cheung Ka-long���s victory over Italy���s Filippo Macchi at the Paris Olympics has sparked an exchange of insults on social media, with Cheung's supporters celebrating his win with posts about pineapple pizzas���widely considered a culinary blunder in Italian cook The Latest: Project 2025's director steps down and Trump says Harris 'doesn't like Jewish people' 07/30/2024 09:18pm • Republican Donald Trump���s campaign has announced that he will travel to Atlanta on Saturday for a rally in the same venue where Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris plans one Tuesday night featuring a performance by hip hop star Megan Thee Stallion. Dueling ad campaigns by the presidential cand Acting Secret Service director says he's 'ashamed' after the Trump assassination attempt 07/30/2024 08:40pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Secret Service's acting director told lawmakers Tuesday that he considered it indefensible that the roof used by the gunman in the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was unsecured and said it was regrettable that local law enforcement had not alerted his Georgia website that lets people cancel voter registrations briefly displayed personal data 07/30/2024 07:49pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia election officials are encouraging people to use a state website to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies, a nod to Republican concerns that there are invalid registrations on the rolls. But Monday's rollout of the site by Republican Secretary of Editorial Roundup: United States 07/30/2024 07:44pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: July 26 The Washington Post on Biden's SCOTUS reform plan In an Oval Office speech on Wednesday, President Biden announced that he supports reforming the Supreme Court, ���because this is critical to our democracy.��� But how? There ar US women win a first Olympic medal in rugby sevens with a comeback victory over Australia 07/30/2024 07:35pm • SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) ��� Alex Sedrick ran the length of the field, dived in under the posts and then calmly took the conversion, securing a first Olympic rugby sevens medal for the United States with a 14-12, last-minute upset over Australia. Ilona Maher watched in awe as Sedrick bumped off t Do you recognize that phone number? Prince George's Co. police have tips on how to avoid over-the-phone scammers 07/30/2024 05:30pm • Scam artists keep getting more sophisticated, and the sheer number of them and the amount of money they've taken continues to spike compared to a year ago. That has Prince George���s County police reminding people about what to watch for, while revealing more about how scammers target victims. In Entrepreneur who sought to merge celebrities, social media and crypto faces fraud charges 07/30/2024 05:23pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A California entrepreneur who sought to merge the bitcoin culture with social media by letting people bet on the future reputation of celebrities and influencers has been arrested on a fraud charge. Nader Al-Naji, 32, was arrested in Los Angeles on Saturday on a wire fraud charge A well-known Russian dissident is moved from prison along with others, their destinations unknown 07/30/2024 05:19pm • TALLINN, Estonia (AP) ��� Ilya Yashin, a prominent Kremlin critic who is serving an 8 1/2-year sentence for criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine, has been moved from his prison to an unknown destination, his lawyer said Tuesday. The statement on the Telegram messaging app by Tatyana Solomina gave no Meta agrees to $1.4B settlement with Texas in privacy lawsuit over facial recognition 07/30/2024 03:46pm • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Meta has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the settlement is the largest secured by a si Pakistan says its own messaging app for secure comms among officials is ready to launch 07/30/2024 03:25pm • ISLAMABAD (AP) ��� Pakistani engineers have developed and successfully tested a government messaging app for secure communication among officials, authorities said Tuesday, even as Islamabad restricts social media use and regularly shuts down internet and mobile phone networks to prevent dissent. Sh Ex-clients of Social Security fraudster Eric Conn won't owe back payments to government 07/30/2024 02:37pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) ��� The U.S. Social Security Administration is notifying some former clients of disgraced Kentucky attorney Eric Conn that they no longer owe money back to the government for overpayment of disability benefits. Conn was charged in a $500 million disability scheme nearly a decade