US Judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana…

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Support rising for Mexican opposition presidency hopeful Galvez -poll

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Public support for Mexican opposition senator Xochitl Galvez has risen since she declared her intention last week to seek the presidency in 2024, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Galvez’s entry into the fray has enlivened media interest in the opposition’s hopes of competing with the leftist ruling National Regeneration Movement…

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Man pleads guilty to raping Ohio child who sought abortion in neighboring Indiana

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – The man charged with raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl who traveled to neighboring Indiana to obtain an abortion last year pleaded guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Gerson Fuentes, who was the live-in boyfriend of the child’s mother, confessed…

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Amid indictments, Trump’s fundraising nearly doubled in second quarter

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s main fundraising committee raised more than $35 million during the April-June period, a campaign official said, nearly twice what the group gathered in the prior three months. The acceleration in fundraising could be a sign that Trump’s 2024 campaign coffers are benefiting from the…

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ChatGPT’s explosive growth shows first decline in traffic since launch

By Krystal Hu (Reuters) -ChatGPT, the wildly popular AI chatbot launched in November, saw monthly traffic to its website and unique visitors decline for the first time ever in June, according to analytics firm Similarweb. Worldwide desktop and mobile traffic to the ChatGPT website decreased by 9.7% in June from May, while unique visitors to…

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Shares fall after little Fed surprise, China data and trade in focus

By Sinéad Carew and Tom Wilson NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – MSCI’s global equities index lost ground on Wednesday after weaker-than-expected overseas data and as investors monitored a heating up of American-Chinese trade tensions while they awaited upcoming U.S. economic data and second-quarter earnings. Investors shrugged off U.S. Federal Reserve meeting minutes released on Wednesday that…

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Insurers look to ease UN climate alliance rules after member exodus – sources

By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) -The remaining insurers in a United Nations-backed coalition aimed at tackling climate change are poised to loosen the alliance’s membership requirements, after a recent exodus of members, according to two people familiar with the discussions. The U.N.-convened Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA) is set to remove a six-month deadline for members…

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Pentagon to tighten controls on classified information after leak

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon announced on Wednesday plans to tighten controls on classified information after an alleged leak incident that saw an airman arrested in April and later indicted on accusations of posting classified documents on the messaging app Discord. The 45-day review did not identify a single point of failure, but the Pentagon said…

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