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  • BusinessAssociated Press

    4 Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students' education

    Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario said Thursday they launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning. The lawsuits claim platforms like Facebook and Instagram are “designed for compulsive use, have rewired the way children think, behave, and learn.” Meta Platforms Inc. owns Facebook and Instagram, while Snap Inc. owns SnapChat and ByteDance Ltd. owns TikTok.

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    King Charles stresses importance of kindness as he skips pre-Easter service amid cancer treatment

    King Charles III on Thursday stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch skipped as he continues to undergo cancer treatment. Queen Camilla represented her husband during the Royal Maundy Service at Worcester Cathedral, presenting bags of specially minted coins to people being honored for public service. The personal message from Charles comes after the recent announcements that both the

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Keir Starmer accuses Tories of ‘beating the hope’ out of Britain as he kicks off election campaign

    The Labour leader set out plans to revive Boris Johnson’s failed levelling up agenda and promised to ‘give people hope that politics can change’

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  • NewsThe Independent

    British Museum poaches National Portrait Gallery boss after stolen artefacts scandal

    Dr Nicholas Cullian will have to manage the diplomatic row over the Elgin Marbles

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  • PoliticsAssociated Press

    US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years

    For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who identify as Hispanic and of Middle Eastern and North African heritage. The revisions to the minimum categories on race and ethnicity, announced Thursday by the Office of Management and Budget, are the latest effort to label and define the people of the United States. This evolving process often reflect

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  • NewsThe Independent

    Sebastian Rogers update: Parents confronted over decision to leave home as teen remains missing

    The 15-year-old disappeared from his Sumner County, Tennessee home on 26 February

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  • NewsAssociated Press

    In Mali, Russian Wagner mercenaries are helping the army kill civilians, rights groups say

    The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians, including many children, rights groups said in reports published this week that span the period from December to March. Mali, along with its neighbors Burkina Faso and Niger, has for over a decade battled an insurgency fought by jihadi groups, including some allied with al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. Following milit

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