Comment Twitter busted three Chinese firms that were secretly trying to influence US politics in the months before the midterm elections by amplifying politically polarizing issues, according to a compilation of data the social media giant released to researchers and the Washington Post. The businesses covered nearly 2,000 user accounts, some purportedly located in the United States, and weighed in on a wide variety of issues, including allegations of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election and criticism of members of the transgender community....

Die Ukraine hat Moskaus Behauptungen, es bereite den Einsatz einer sogenannten schmutzigen, verseuchten Atombombe vor, entschieden zurückgewiesen. Die Behauptung erwecke den Verdacht, dass Moskau selbst etwas Schmutziges im Schilde führe, sagte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Sonntag. Er rief die Weltgemeinschaft dazu auf, sich einer Eskalation des achtmonatigen Krieges durch Russland zu widersetzen. Vorausgegangen waren Telefongespräche zwischen dem russischen Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu und den Ministern der Nato-Staaten Großbritannien, Frankreich und der Türkei....

Working as a team, they took pictures of the armor moving to Kyiv and located its coordinates, quickly sending valuable information to the Ukrainian army. Within minutes, artillery batteries fired shells at the invading forces, killing them. Andriy Pokrasa, 15, and his father, Stanislav, are greeted in Ukraine for their voluntary air reconnaissance work in the early days of the invasion, when Russian troops entering from the north made a failed attempt to occupy the capital and bring the country to its knees....

Natacha Pisarenko | AP Photo As Russian tanks and trucks ran near their village, a Ukrainian teenager and his father secretly launched their small drone into the air. Working as a team, they took pictures of the armor moving to Kyiv and located its coordinates, quickly sending valuable information to the Ukrainian army. Within minutes, artillery batteries fired shells at the invading forces, killing them. Andriy Pokrasa, 15, and his father, Stanislav, are greeted in Ukraine for their voluntary air reconnaissance work in the early days of the invasion, when Russian troops entering from the north made a failed attempt to occupy the capital and bring the country to its knees....

Most Read by Bloomberg Contracts for the S&P 500 fluctuated before turning green, while those for the Nasdaq 100 fell off session lows to trade little changed. Twitter Inc. gained as much as 2.1%, narrowing the gap with Elon Musk’s offer price ahead of a court-ordered Oct. 28 deadline for the deal. Tesla Inc. slipped more than 2% after price cuts across its range in China. “It’s clear that demand is slowing, but so far we’ve seen pockets of technology like software, cloud computing still be pretty resilient,” Laura Cooper, senior investment strategist at BlackRock International Ltd....

Frankreich droht der Abstieg in die Nations League Frankreich kann sich in diesem Jahr einfach nicht für die Nations League qualifizieren. Der Weltmeister unterlag Kroatien mit 0:1. Nun droht sogar der Abstieg in die B-Liga. Veröffentlicht: 13.06.2022 um 23:11 Uhr | Aktualisiert: 13.06.2022 um 23:12 Uhr Vier Spiele, drei Tore und nur zwei Punkte auf dem Konto – das ist das schwache Abschneiden der französischen Nationalmannschaft in der aktuellen Version der Nations League....

Aides said the hearing would show how Trump’s team pursued legal disputes in court and lost those cases, and that Trump then chose to ignore the will of the courts and continue to try to overturn the election. The hearing will also seek to link Trump’s lies about the January 6, 2021 US Capitol election, aides said, including the way rioters repeated the former president’s baseless allegations that the election was rigged....

Die Stadt Wien verzeichnete im Mai 2022 eine Rekordzahl an Radfahrern in der Stadt. © APA / HERBERT NEUBAUER (Symbolbild) Laut Mobilitätsberaterin Ulli Sima (SPÖ) wurden im Mai mehr als 1,1 Millionen Radfahrer in den Wahllokalen in Wien registriert. Das ist eine Steigerung von rund 22 Prozent gegenüber dem gleichen Monat im Jahr 2021. Die Menschen, die das Jahr der Pandemie 2020 veränderten, würden nun dem Rad treu bleiben und es würden immer mehr kommen....

(Akt. 13.06.2022 21:45) Der Prozess nach einer brutalen Home Invasion im Herbst des Vorjahres in Eggersdorf bei Graz hat am Montag mit zwei Mal lebenslanger Haft für die beiden Angeklagten geendet. Die Männer im Alter von 44 und 50 Jahren versuchten laut Anklage eine 55-jährige Burgenländerin vor den Augen der dreijährigen Enkelin zu töten, schlugen auf sie ein und stachen ihr zwei Messer in den Rücken. Das Opfer überlebte und identifizierte die Verdächtigen....

The families of five immunocompromised children as well as the Alberta Federation of Labor (AFL) sought a review of the Feb. 8 decision to lift school mask mandates, which was made during a cabinet meeting. Court of King’s Bench judge Grant Dunlop agreed with the applicants that he should issue a statement “for the benefit of the chief medical officer and other medical health officers in considering future public health orders”....

Will the match still happen? A recent tweet by AEW suggests the answer is no. At 4:38 EST this afternoon, AEW released a tweet promoting this Wednesday’s “AEW Dynamite” episode, including Ethan Page vs. Miro, Wardlow vs. 20 Security Guards, and Ortiz vs. Chris Jericho in a hair vs. hair match. The three-way ladder match, however, was no longer promoted, despite having been promoted two hours earlier. While it hasn’t been officially confirmed, AEW’s lack of promotion for the match is the first indication that the ladder match will be canceled, or at the very least re-worked....

LÉGISLATIVES – Brouhaha et recadrage sur le plateau de France 2. Ce dimanche 12 juin, au soir du premier tour des législatives, Anne-Sophie Lapix a mené le débat entre la candidate de la NUPES Sandrine Rousseau et le maire du Mans Stéphane Le Foll. La conversation entre les deux politiciens de gauche a nécessité l’intervention du journaliste, pour une raison bien précise. Au cœur du débat, la coalition NUPES est née quelques semaines après l’élection présidentielle....

And so the great game of hunting for the secret of the universe is about to begin again, in the midst of new developments and the renewed hopes of particle physicists. Even before its renovation, the accelerator hinted that nature could hide something spectacular. Mitesh Patel, a particle physicist at Imperial College London conducting an experiment at CERN, described the data from his previous series as “the most exciting set of results I have ever seen in my professional life”....

In a statement sent to members, BC Federation of Teachers president Clint Johnston said the agreement was reached after more than 50 days of negotiations and the union executive is recommending its members ratify the contract. Johnston said he’s proud the group was able to secure a tentative agreement that will have significant pay and other gains for teachers. “If ratified, this agreement will take us from nearly the lowest paid teachers in Canada to the top tier....

In den Gemeinden Goms und Obergoms VS steht aktuell viel im Gesundheitswesen auf dem Spiel. Die Gemeinden kämpfen seit Monaten darum, die Notaufnahme nachts einsatzbereit zu halten. „Ohne Nachtrettungswagen droht uns die Ausreise. „Dann wird unser Gebiet stark an Attraktivität verlieren“, sagte Obergommer Bürgermeister Patric Zimmermann, 43, in seinem Obergestelner Amtszimmer. Aufgrund personeller Engpässe muss das Nachtambulanz Gommer per 1. Januar 2022 ins untere Walliser Tal verlegt werden. Als Walliser Landtagsabgeordneter konnte Zimmermann die Mehrheit zur Verschiebung bewegen....

Polizei ermittelt gegen zwei Blockierer – Luisa Neubauer bedauert den Vorfall Stand: 16:50 Uhr| Lesezeit: 3 Minuten Blockade von Klimaaktivisten verzögert Rettung von schwer verletztem Radfahrer Eine Verkehrsblockade von Klimaaktivisten hat die Bergung eines schwerverletzten Radfahrers in Berlin verzögert. Die Aktivistengruppe „Last Generation“ bedauert den Vorfall. Hier können Sie sich unsere WELT-Podcasts anhören Zur Anzeige der eingebetteten Inhalte ist Ihre widerrufliche Einwilligung zur Übermittlung und Verarbeitung personenbezogener Daten erforderlich, da die Drittanbieter der eingebetteten Inhalte diese Einwilligung benötigen [In diesem Zusammenhang können auch Nutzungsprofile (u....

On Sunday, Brazilian police said search teams found some of their belongings in a creek outside the river where they were last seen for about a week. Among them was a health card in Pereira’s name, a Phillips backpack, along with the boots of both men. Authorities have not yet confirmed that the bodies have been found, the G1 reported. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Witnesses said they saw Pereira and Phillips, a freelance reporter who wrote for the Guardian and the Washington Post, traveling on the river on June 5....

The man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has been charged with assault and attempted kidnapping after last week’s break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home, the U.S. attorney’s office said Monday. David DePape, 42, was charged with “attempted kidnapping of a U.S. official,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of California. That charge relates to Nancy Pelosi, who Depp told police he planned to “hold hostage,” according to an FBI affidavit also unsealed Monday....

With the Ukraine war, the cost-of-living crisis and political unrest, he said the word “very succinctly sums up how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”. Last year’s word of the year was NFT (non-fungible token). Six of the 10 words for 2022 are new to the Collins Dictionary and include partygate – the infamous Downing Street scandal and the warm bank – a library-like public building where people who can’t afford heating go to keep warm....

About 550,000 mothers who are pregnant or have children aged three and under are theoretically eligible for the program, which costs between, 4.25 and, 8.50 a week. Designed to ensure that their children get their portions five a day, milk or formula, it should be a timely boost. Instead of providing a food safety net, however, Healthy Start withdrew tens of thousands of eligible mothers. As he moved from the paper voucher to a prepaid card system, the parents who used the old system were rejected for the new one, without any explanation....