Since launching Threads on Wednesday night, Meta’s new app has collected tens of millions of sign-ups.
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AP sources: U.S. will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package
U.S. officials said Thursday that the cluster munitions would be part of about $800 million in new military assistance to Ukraine.
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Trump valet Walt Nauta pleads not guilty in classified documents case
A valet for Donald Trump accused of helping the former president hide classified documents from federal authorities is back in a Florida court.
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U.S. job openings dip to 9.8 million but remain high
Job openings fell in health care, insurance and finance. But there were more jobs available in education and government.
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Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 5, injures dozens
The youngest of the five people who died was 21 years old and the oldest was 95, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, the governor of Lviv province.
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Belarus says Wagner chief who staged mutiny is in Russia, raising questions about Kremlin’s strategy
If true, it could suggest the threat posed by Yevgeny Prigozhin has not been fully defused and the Kremlin is treading carefully.
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Study finds drinking water from nearly half of U.S. faucets contains ‘forever chemicals’
Researchers describe the study as the first nationwide effort to test for PFAS in tap water from private sources in addition to regulated ones.
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Meta takes aim at Twitter with the launch of rival app Threads
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says 10 million people signed up in the first seven hours.
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Alan Alda kept his boots and dog tags from ‘M*A*S*H’ for 40 years. Now he’ll offer them at auction
The money raised will go to the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York, a center he helped start to help scientists and doctors communicate better by applying improvisational exercises and communication strategies.
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UPS, Teamsters contract talks break down with each side blaming the other
Contract negotiations between UPS and the union representing 340,000 of the company’s workers broke down early Wednesday morning.