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Legislation to protect kids online passes Senate by overwhelming majority
2024-07-30 23:00:51
Bill marks first effort by Congress in decades to hold tech companies more accountable for content that endangers children and teens.
Kamala Harris focusing on final contenders for her VP pick, sources say
2024-07-30 23:00:49
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate will campaign together in battleground states next week, sources familiar with the plans previously told CBS News.
US Senate passes first major child online safety bills in years
2024-07-30 21:15:04
The US Senate passed a sweeping social media safety package Tuesday that would force tech companies to do more to protect children—the first major legislation targeting Silicon Valley in a generation.
Hamas-controlled civil defence says 42 bodies found in Khan Younis
2024-07-30 17:26:01
Dozens of bodies have been recovered from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip following the Israeli withdrawal there, according to Palestinian reports. A spokesman for the civil defence, which is controlled by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, said on Tuesday that 42 bodies had been found in Bani Suhaila in the east of Khan Younis. The media office, which is also controlled by Hamas, announced that 255 people had been killed and around 300 others injured within eight days. There are al
William Laws Calley, face of My Lai massacre in Vietnam War, dead at 80
2024-07-30 17:25:40
Lieutenant Calley was the only person convicted over the largest killing of civilians by US army in the 20th century
Post Office board ‘felt blindsided’ by rushed out, critical 2013 report
2024-07-30 17:25:21
Former member Susannah Storey tells inquiry that Horizon IT problem was sprung on non-executive directors
Turkey approves ‘massacre law’ to remove millions of stray dogs
2024-07-30 17:25:02
Animal lovers fear legislation will lead to many of the dogs being killed or ending up in overcrowded shelters
Celebrity-studded ‘White Dudes for Harris’ call raises $4m for vice-president
2024-07-30 17:25:02
Jeff Bridges, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo and contenders for Harris’s VP pick among 190,000 participants in Zoom call
Paris mayor seeks to keep Eiffel Tower Olympic rings
2024-07-30 16:57:57
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday said the Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower should be kept permanently in the city. "There are three symbols that we have to deal with so that they can be preserved as heritage," Hidalgo told the France Bleu radio station, listing the Eiffel Tower rings first. Hidalgo then mentioned the cauldron holding the Olympic flame. The cauldron sits beneath a giant balloon in the Tuileries Garden. Each night the flame is lifted above the ground. The mayor also wan
German electoral reform partly unconstitutional, top court rules
2024-07-30 16:56:56
German electoral reforms aimed at limiting the size of parliament are in parts unconstitutional, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday. The reform, initiated by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's centre-left coalition, aims to limit the size of the Bundestag to a maximum of 630 seats. Germany's lower house of parliament is considered the world's largest freely elected legislature. The number of lawmakers elected to the Bundestag in 2021 was 736, due to a complex voting system which allows for
Kemi Badenoch accused of ‘bullying and traumatising’ staff
2024-07-30 16:50:30
Exclusive: At least three department officials allegedly felt pushed out by MP’s behaviour as business secretary
Vance reportedly told donors Harris was threat in new blow to Trump campaign
2024-07-30 16:50:30
Republican nominee also said he would be interviewed by the FBI about the assassination attempt against him
Scheme to reunite separated Afghan families opens
2024-07-30 16:50:24
Parents and children separated from family during the evacuation of Kabul can now apply to join them in the UK.
Omagh bombing inquiry chair vows to work ‘rigorously and fearlessly’
2024-07-30 16:45:13
Inquiry into 1998 attack will ask whether ‘state authorities’ could have acted to prevent mass killing
Southport stabbing victims named: ‘No words can describe the devastation’
2024-07-30 16:40:56
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Spanish PM files lawsuit against judge investigating his wife
2024-07-30 16:27:27
Pedro Sánchez taking legal action to prevent judiciary being used for ‘political motives’, spokesperson says
Harris campaign hits back at Trump immigration attack ad amid $50m ad buy ahead of Democratic convention – live
2024-07-30 16:27:24
Kamala Harris spokesperson says ‘Donald Trump is running on his trademark lies’ after new immigration ad, which is part of paid media efforts ahead of convention in Chicago
Anjem Choudary: Radical preacher jailed for life
2024-07-30 16:24:33
The sentence means Choudary cannot seek to leave jail on licence until he is more than 85 years old.
Angela Rayner sets new housing targets in planning overhaul
2024-07-30 16:24:33
The government is changing how targets are set in England, in a bid to boost housebuilding.
Venezuela election: Protesters clash with police after Maduro victory claim
2024-07-30 10:16:00
Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets against people as thousands gathered in Caracas.

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