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Inside the TikTok documents: Stripping teens and boosting ‘attractive’ people
A trove of secret documents show teens’ increasingly reliant on TikTok and how executives were acutely aware of the potential harm the app can cause young people, but appeared unconcerned.
With no running water, Asheville finds other ways to flush thousands of toilets
Since the remnants of Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, most of the city has been without running water. The people of Asheville have devised elaborate systems to stay clean and flush their toilets.
Hunting for male voters: Walz steps into the field for the pheasant opener
Gov. Tim Walz had more pheasant hunting companions than usual for this year’s opener near Sleepy Eye, on Saturday. Flanked by a team of earpiece-wearing Secret Service agents and roughly a dozen members of the press, Walz and his 4-person hunting party set out into a golden, sunlit field on private land as soon as the season officially opened at 9 a.m.
Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again
Palestinians in northern Gaza are describing heavy Israeli bombardment in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people. Israel continues to tell people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of its offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups.