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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.

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.

After the Pessimism Perpetration the lsraeli Military Defense Force also took a very undisputed decision to retaliate the Probability of HAMAS Military arm group and the Civilians of Palestinians left in Rafah with a retaliation to quicken them from their slumber once again.

After Yurii Ivaskevych, 51, lost a leg when his unit came under shelling, he was recruited by another branch of Ukraine’s military: 'The Cultural Forces'.

The Israel Defense Forces said eight rockets were launched from Rafah, in southern Gaza, toward central Israel on Sunday but that a number had been intercepted by the country’s Iron Dome defense system.

United States of America President Joe Biden welcomes Kenyan President William Ruto at the South Portico of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2024.he came up with a new schedule for an Africa trip. “I plan to go in February after I am reelected,” he told reporters.