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The United Nations said Monday that Israeli troops fired on an aid convoy traveling along an agreed-upon route inside Gaza, as the military ordered Palestinian civilians to leave an area previously designated as a safe zone.

A court in Russia convicted Russian American Journalist Mrs. Alsu Kurmasheva of reporting false information about the country’s military and sentenced her to 6½ years in prison on Friday — the same day Wall Street Journal correspondent Mr. Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years on espionage charges.

Houthis Angrily Launch Deadly Drone Strike on Tel Aviv, Evading Israel's Defenses.The aerial strike initially rumbled through the center of the city near the U.S. Embassy, causing shrapnel to rain down and spreading shards of glass over a large radius. The Israeli military said they are professionally investigating what went wrong and why the Defense System “did not identify it, attack it and intercept it.”

European Union regulators accused social media company Meta Platforms on Monday, July 1, 2024, of breaching the bloc’s new digital competition rulebook by forcing Facebook and Instagram users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. European Union (EU) regulators say Meta violated the bloc’s new competition law in requiring Instagram and Facebook users to pay if they don’t want their personal data used to generate targeted ads. The preliminary findings results was initially as part of a longer duration investigation into whether the social media giant is out of compliance with the E.U.’s Digital Markets Act, the first antitrust law focused on Big Tech companies in a major economy.

Russia accidentally dropped at least 38 unguided bombs over its own territory, citing internal bomb cleanup and evacuation documents it obtained from Ukrainian intelligence. The FAB-500 glide bombs that carry a 500-kilogram payload have fallen on Russia’s Belgorod region which borders Ukraine. Russia had commenced deploying modified Soviet-era FAB-500s with an attached wing and navigation kit earlier as an alternative to dwindling precision-guided missiles.

United Federation of Teachers Senior Executive Michael Mulgrew recently made a surprising reversal by withdrawing support for controversial changes to health care plans for thousands of city retirees. The changes involved moving retirees from traditional Medicare coverage to Aetna-run Medicare Advantage in an effort to save costs for New York City.

Authorities were called to the scene after reports of a subject down in a restricted area near the roller coaster. Police confirmed that the man had entered the fenced-in area to retrieve his keys and was struck by the Banshee roller coaster. The police department is working to determine the exact circumstances of the incident and the factors that led to the man’s critical injury. The park’s focus remains on the welfare of the guest and his family as they continue to investigate the incident.

Nvidia became the U.S.’s most valuable listed company thanks to the demand for its artificial-intelligence chips, leading a tech boom that brings back memories from around the start of this century.

A Texas teen speaks out after a classmate created and shared fake nude images using real photos of her face. Two of her friends were also victims of the photo manipulation. “It threw me off guard and created so much anxiety,” she sadly said.

Parts of the Northeast could reach the upper 90s on Wednesday, including Maine, where temperatures are set to tie a record. Follow live updates on the U.S. heat wave.

The president tries to balance building clean-energy industries in the U.S. and curbing Chinese imports such as batteries and solar-panels.But the restrictions also threaten another of his priorities: building out renewable-energy generation.

The U.S.A Treasury Secretary Mrs Janet Yellen had just made public comments prior to the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Italy, where she took some provocative shots at both Russia and China, signaling coordination among G7 partners to transfer ownership of seized Russian assets.