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Megaraptor discovered in China may have rivaled velociraptors of 'Jurassic Park:' Study
Fossilized footprints found in southeastern China suggest that a six-foot-tall megaraptor once roamed the region during the Cretaceous period.
Yahoo Finance
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s not voting for Trump : 'Character is too important'
Ryan says he would be writing in a Republican candidate instead of voting for Donald Trump.
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Vermont passes bill to charge fossil fuel companies for damages from climate change
Vermont lawmakers have passed a so-called "Climate Superfund Act" designed to make fossil fuel companies pay for damage from weather disasters fueled by climate change.
Reuters
Pfizer reports patient death in Duchenne gene therapy study
"A fatal serious adverse event was reported as cardiac arrest for a participant in the Phase 2 DAYLIGHT study," a company spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed response. The trial tested boys 2 years to less than 4 years of age with DMD, a genetic muscle wasting disorder in which most patients lack the protein dystrophin which keeps muscles intact.
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China’s booming EV companies eye U.S. competitors they see as ‘not ready’
Chinese companies are forcing Western automakers to change their approach to electric vehicles if they want to remain competitive in a growing global industry.
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Facebook's Oversight Board to consider if 'from the river to the sea' is hate speech
The independent Oversight Board that hears appeals about content decisions on Facebook and Instagram said Tuesday it would consider whether the pro-Palestinian phrase “from the river to the sea” violates the platforms’ rules including their ban on hate speech.
Yahoo Finance
The challenges facing TikTok as it confronts the US in court
TikTok made good on its promise to sue the US over a new law that could result in a ban of the video app in America. Its claims face a number of hurdles in US courts.
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Rabbi decries act of ‘senseless hatred' after dozens of headstones damaged at Jewish cemetery in NY
Rafi Spitzer, a rabbi in upstate in New York, hopes to reclaim the church's cemetery after over 80 headstones were recently vandalized.
AFP
Europe student Gaza protests spread, sparking clashes, arrests
Student protests to demand that universities sever ties with Israel over the Gaza war spread in Europe on Tuesday, sparking clashes and arrests as fresh protests broke out in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.- France, Switzerland, Austria - In Paris, police on Tuesday twice intervened at Paris's prestigious Sciences Po university to disperse about 20 students who had barricaded themselves in the university's main hall.
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With 2024 presidential contest looming, Georgia governor signs new election changes into law
Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Tuesday that makes additional changes to Georgia's election laws ahead of the 2024 presidential contest in the battleground state, including defining probable causes for removing voters from the rolls when their eligibility is challenged. Republican activists — fueled by debunked theories of a stolen election — have challenged more than 100,000 voters in the state in recent years. The bill Kemp signed into law — SB 189 — lists death, evidence of voting or registering in another jurisdiction, a tax exemption indicating a primary residence elsewhere, or a nonresidential address as probable causes for removing voters from the rolls.
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Survivors of alleged abuse in Illinois youth detention facilities step forward
Three men who say they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers came forward Tuesday as part of a lawsuit that chronicles decades of disturbing allegations of systemic child abuse. Calvin McDowell, 37, who alleged he was abused by a chaplain at a suburban Chicago youth center as a teenager, said he didn’t want others suffering as he did for decades. “Instead of being cared for, I felt more alone than ever,” McDowell said at a Chicago news conference.
Reuters
Palantir shares post biggest daily slide since 2022 after forecast disappoints
Shares of Palantir Technologies fell 15.1% on Tuesday in their biggest daily percentage drop since May 2022, a day after the data analytics company gave a revenue forecast that disappointed. Still, several brokerages raised their price targets following the report, including D.A. Davidson, which raised its target to $24 from $19. "While guidance for FY2024 was increased, it was lighter than expected," D.A. Davidson analysts wrote in their research note, adding that management had noted "they're seeing unavoidable headwinds in Europe."
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TikTok sues U.S. government. What does it mean for the potential ban of the platform?
TikTok filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, seeking a court order to stop the U.S. government from enforcing a ban on the app. Here's what comes next.
CNN
Biden’s antisemitism speech leaves no doubt he’s standing by Israel despite tension with Netanyahu
The political rawness of the moment, as Israel pounds Gaza and outrage rocks American college campuses, means President Joe Biden’s big speech Tuesday condemning antisemitism is most notable for what he left unsaid.
CNN
Lawsuit alleges pervasive child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers for decades
A group of 95 people filed a lawsuit in Illinois on Monday alleging they were sexually abused as children in juvenile detention centers across the state for over two decades.
Reuters
Biden welcomes peaceful protests at college commencements, White House says
U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes peaceful protests at college commencement ceremonies where he and other administration officials will speak, the White House said on Tuesday as pro-Palestinian protests spread around the country. Columbia University on Monday canceled its main graduation ceremony after weeks of unrest roiled the Ivy League college's campus, but it will still hold smaller, school-based events. The protests at Columbia have inspired similar demonstrations at dozens of universities around the country.
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Biden condemns antisemitism at Holocaust remembrance ceremony
President Joe Biden is set to condemn acts of antisemitism in a keynote speech this morning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
AFP
China's Xi lands in Serbia after talking Ukraine, trade in France
Xi Jinping arrived in Belgrade on Tuesday evening, after French President Emmanuel Macron hosted a high altitude lunch at a childhood haunt in the Pyrenees mountains for the Chinese leader.Writing in Serbian daily Politika ahead of arriving in Belgrade, Xi criticised NATO for its "flagrant" bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia in 1999, warning Beijing would "never allow such tragic history to repeat itself".
Reuters
Peru port conflict escalates as Chinese firm insists on original terms
The Chinese state-owned company at the center of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru's Pacific coast insisted on Tuesday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have sought to backtrack on the deal. Hong Kong-based Cosco Shipping Ports will defend its legal rights to provide services as the exclusive operator of the deepwater Chancay Port Terminal under "terms that were agreed at the beginning of this investment," the firm said in a statement. Peru's government did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Biden administration orders online banker Chime to pay $4.55 million over delayed refunds to customers
The Biden administration has told the online banking group Chime it must pay $4.55 million for failing to issue refunds in a timely manner to customers who had closed their accounts with the firm.

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