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TikTok content creators sue the US government over law that could ban the popular platform 05/14/2024 07:17pm • Eight TikTok content creators sued the U.S. government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn���t sell its stakes within a year. Attorneys for the creators argue in the lawsuit The Latest | UN says over half a million people flee fighting in Gaza; Israel marks Independence Day 05/14/2024 06:33pm • More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in Rafah and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Israelis celebrated their Independence Day on Tuesday with barbecues in parks across the country, although the normally raucous part Military hearing officer deciding whether to recommend court-martial for Pentagon leaker 05/14/2024 04:52pm • BEDFORD, Massachusetts (AP) ��� A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty in March to federal crimes for leaking highly classified military documents appeared Tuesday before a military hearing officer who will recommend whether the guardsman should face a court-martial. Jack Teix Sidewalk video ���Portal��� linking New York, Dublin by livestream temporarily paused after lewd antics 05/14/2024 04:40pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The video screen ���Portal��� that lets people in New York and Dublin peer into life on opposite sides of the Atlantic in real time has been a source of whimsical delight for sidewalk crowds in the two cities, but also a magnet for boorish behavior that���s prompted officials to hi New US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells could raise consumer prices 05/14/2024 04:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� New tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and batteries, solar cells, medical equipment and other goods are intended to protect U.S. jobs and manufacturers. They could raise prices on certain specific items, experts say, though a broad inflationary impact is unlikely in the short Vermont Legislature passes one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country 05/14/2024 04:32pm • The Democrat-controlled Vermont legislature has passed one of the strongest data privacy measures in the country aimed at cracking down on companies' use of online personal data, which would let consumers file civil lawsuits against companies that break certain privacy rules. However, Republican Go An attack on a prison van in France kills 2 officers. An inmate escapes 05/14/2024 11:23am • PARIS (AP) ��� Armed assailants killed two French prison officers and seriously wounded three others in an attack on a convoy in Normandy on Tuesday and an inmate escaped, officials said. A search was underway. The convoy was transporting prisoner Mohamed Amra to ��vreux jail after a court hearing i Scarred by war, Nigeria���s wounded soldiers fought to recover at Prince Harry's Invictus Games 05/14/2024 04:25am • ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) ��� One evening in November 2020, a year into his military service, Peacemaker Azuegbulam���s lifelong dream of being a soldier came to an abrupt end. He was among a group of Nigerian soldiers deployed in the country's grinding counteroffensive against Islamic extremists in nort Trump suggests Chinese migrants are in the US to build an 'army.' The migrants tell another story 05/14/2024 03:35am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It was 7 a.m. on a recent Friday when Wang Gang, a 36-year-old Chinese immigrant, jostled for a day job in New York City's Flushing neighborhood. When a potential employer pulled up near the street corner, home to a Chinese bakery and pharmacy, Wang and dozens of other men swarmed Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone 05/13/2024 10:31pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� The voice Alexis ���Lexi��� Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time ��� even while corralling misbehaving preschoolers or debating politics with friends over a backyard fire p Notorious people smuggler wanted in Europe arrested in northern Iraq 05/13/2024 08:50pm • BAGHDAD (AP) ��� One of Europe's most notorious human smugglers was arrested Monday in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said. The regional government's security agency said it had arrested Barzan Majeed, known as ���the Scorpion,��� in the area of Sulaymaniyah, A Kremlin shake-up of Russia's Defense Ministry comes at a key moment in the Ukraine war 05/13/2024 05:08pm • Standing in his dress uniform in the back of his Aurus convertible, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was driven around Red Square to review the troops during last week's Victory Day parade. It was to be his last inspection in that role. Over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin replaced Shoigu ��� th Polish activists criticize Tusk's government for tough border policies and migrant pushbacks 05/13/2024 12:01pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) ��� Refugee rights activists on Monday criticized Poland's pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus and for continuing a policy initiated by predecessors of pushing migrants back across the border there. The activists organized an onl Vatican Museums staff challenge the pope with a legal bid for better terms and treatment 05/13/2024 06:35am • ROME (AP) ��� Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits in an unusual, public challenge to Pope Francis��� governance. The complaint, dated April 23 and made public this week Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services 05/13/2024 12:15am • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) ��� Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince. When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there's only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the cla