About a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing over concerns about ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site.
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Judge in Trump’s hush money case delays date for ruling on presidential immunity
The immunity decision had been due Sept. 6, with Trump’s sentencing set for Sept. 18.
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Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago
Researchers have debated how Homo floresiensis evolved to be so small and where they fall in the human evolutionary story.
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Tropical Storm Debby drenches Southeast as it drifts along the Atlantic coast
The storm was forecast to move relatively slowly across some of America’s most historic Southern cities.
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Calm returns to Wall Street as stocks bounce back from worst drop in nearly 2 years
Stronger-than-expected profit reports from several big U.S. companies helped drive the market after Japan’s Nikkei index soared earlier.
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Who is Tim Walz? Kamala Harris picks Minnesota’s governor as her running mate
Walz vaulted to the top of the list of possible prospects after spending weeks defending Harris on the cable news circuit, going viral in the process for his off-the-cuff messaging style.
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Harris introduces running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the ‘vice president America deserves’
Walz revved up the crowd at a raucous rally Tuesday in Philadelphia for the rigorous campaign to come. ‘We’ve got 91 days. My God, that’s easy. We’ll sleep when we’re dead,’ he said.
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Man charged with sending son to kill rapper PnB Rock testifies ‘I had nothing to do with it’
Freddie Trone is charged with 1 count of murder, 2 counts of second-degree robbery and 1 count of conspiracy to commit robbery.
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Cardinal Seán O’Malley, Pope Francis’ main adviser on clergy abuse, retires as Boston archbishop
Pope Francis has named Richard Henning, the bishop of Providence, R.I., to succeed O’Malley as leader of one of the most important Catholic archdioceses in the country.
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Tennessee fugitive apprehended in Lowelltown at a former Canada border crossing
Larry Wayne Cole III is wanted in Tennessee in connection with the stabbing of his husband in a Walmart in Gallatin, Tennessee.