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Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase

Elon Musk attends the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 22. Markus Schreiber/AP hide caption toggle caption Markus Schreiber/AP SAN FRANCISCO — A jury has found Elon Musk liable for misleading investors by deliberately driving down Twitter's stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition

Over 5,500 Evacuated in Hawaii Over Potential Dam Failure

Streets are flooded from severe rains Friday in Haleiwa, Hawaii. Mengshin Lin/AP hide caption toggle caption Mengshin Lin/AP HONOLULU — Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, pushed homes off their foundations, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents in towns north of Honolulu on Friday as officials warned of the possible

CBS Shutters Storied Radio News Service After Nearly a Century

Network microphones on the desk as President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation from the White House in Washington on April 28, 1942. GRS/AP hide caption toggle caption GRS/AP NEW YORK — CBS News said Friday it will shut down its storied radio news service after nearly 100 years of operation, ending an era and

Prosecutors Seek Dismissal in Breonna Taylor Officers’ Case

Protesters participate in the Good Trouble Tuesday march for Breonna Taylor, on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Invision hide caption toggle caption Amy Harris/Invision/AP/Invision LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Federal prosecutors asked a judge Friday to dismiss the charges against two Louisville officers accused of falsifying the warrant that led police to raid Breonna

‘Everybody was wearing black’: Iranian diaspora observes Nowruz amid war

Nozlee Samadzadeh's haft sin — a traditional table set for Nowruz featuring symbolic objects. Sarah Ventre/NPR hide caption toggle caption Sarah Ventre/NPR Nowruz — the Iranian New Year — is one of the biggest holidays of the year for Iranians, and is usually celebrated with large parties and get-togethers. It's an ancient holiday, with pre-Islamic

How the Iran war threatens global food supply

A farmer sprinkles fertilizer over crops at a rice field on the outskirts of Amritsar on July 23, 2024. Narinder Nanu/AFP/via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Narinder Nanu/AFP/via Getty Images About a third of all fertilizer shipped globally goes through the Strait of Hormuz , the narrow passage between the Persian Gulf and the

The second death of Cesar Chavez and his legacy

Cesar Chavez attends a Labour Party press conference in the United Kingdon on September 17, 1974. Les Lee/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption Les Lee/Getty Images/Hulton Archive A version of this essay first appeared in the Up First newsletter.  Subscribe here  so you don't miss the next one. You'll get the news you need

Germany: Police dismantle major cyberattack ‘botnets’

Investigators on Friday said they had worked with partners in the United States and Canada to shut down infrastructure linked to the "Aisuru" and "Kimwolf" networks. The so-called botnets, made up of millions of infected devices, were used for large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that can overwhelm entire websites and onlines services. What do

Amazônia’s Indigenous peoples dismantle Western cliches

Across history, European depictions of the Amazon have typically presented the South American region as a vast, untouched expanse. Over time, a set of tropes took hold: the rainforest as a "virgin" wilderness; Indigenous life cast as belonging to an earlier era; the whole region suspended outside of time. As a result, a complex, culturally diverse territory has been flattened into an

South Korea: Factory fire injures dozens, workers trapped

At least 55 people were injured on Friday after a fire tore through an auto parts factory in Daejeon, South Korea, officials said, as emergency crews raced to locate more than a dozen people believed to have been trapped inside. The fire broke out around 1:00 p.m. (0400 GMT) and spread rapidly through the facility, sending
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