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Facebook warned on Friday that it may block sharing of news content on its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would compel digital platforms to pay news publishers. The Online News Act, introduced in April, laid out rules to force platforms like Meta’s Facebook and Alphabet’s Google to negotiate commercial deals and pay news publishers for their content, in a move similar to a ground-breaking law passed in Australia last year.The legislation is under consideration at a parliamentary committee, to which the U.S. social media company said it has not been invited to share its concerns.“We believe the…

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CNN  —  A Houston-area couple was arrested in Louisiana on Tuesday after two abused children turned up at a home early that morning near their Texas neighborhood, according to authorities and a court document. Harris County deputies responded around 5:30 a.m. ET Tuesday to a home in Cypress for a welfare check on siblings where a woman told deputies the twins knocked on her front door and “stated that they had escaped from their mother’s house,” according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday with the Harris County District Court. “The twin siblings were covered with bruises, were barefoot and were…

Authorities came across a mummified body in the bathtub of a home in Arizona as they investigated a burglary.In a press release, Bullhead City police said officers were responding to a burglary at approximately 3:30 a.m. Saturday when they discovered 65-year-old Christine Lee Walters rummaging through items inside the northwestern Arizona house.Walters was allegedly ransacking the home and selling the homeowner’s purses, bags, and clothing online.MISSOURI TOWN GIVING AWAY FREE STEERING WHEEL LOCKS IN RESPONSE TO SPIKE IN KIA, HYUNDAI CAR THEFTSPolice said Walters told officers she didn’t know the body was in bathroom of the house.”The deceased body was…

Hostomel, Ukraine CNN  —  The letter had just three words: mama, alive, healthy. But Olena Yuzvak had no doubt that it was from her son, Dima. The 23-year-old biotech graduate was taken by Russian forces from their front yard in the Kyiv suburb of Hostomel along with Olena and her husband, Oleh, on March 20. Olena, a doctor, was released the next day. Dima and Oleh, a former police colonel, were taken to a filtration camp in Russia. Oleh was returned to Ukraine in a prisoner swap on April 18, but Dima has been gone for seven months. “The last…

Historically true-blue New York is finding itself in the middle of a potential red wave in the Nov. 8 elections as polls show several key congressional races tilting toward the GOP and putting the Empire State in line to help shift power in Congress to the Republicans.  “Democrats have little to show for their time in power aside from a tanking economy and soaring crime,” Calvin Moore, a spokesman for the Congressional Leadership Fund said in a release highlighting a fresh round of attacks on Democrats like Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-Hudson Valley) in the newly drawn 17th Congressional District.…

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  Trevor Noah and Dua Lipa. Shutterstock (2)Just super close friends? Trevor Noah appeared on Dua Lipa’s podcast — and couldn’t help but gush about the “One Kiss” singer while appearing on her “Dua Lipa: At Your Service” podcast. “I even said to my friend one day, I said, ‘Every time I see Dua Lipa, it’s at an award show. So now that means if I see her, my life is going well,’” the late-night host, 38, said while on the Friday, October 21, episode. “So, now I just hope to see her more so that it means my life…

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones addressed reports of a fiery exchange with Patriots owner Robert Kraft this week. While all 32 NFL owners opened negotiations for a potential new contract for NFL commissioner Roger Goodell this week, Jones, the lone vote against the incumbent, told Kraft, “don’t f–k with me” and “don’t mess with me,” according to ESPN. “You express yourself with people you know and people you’re around a lot … in different ways,” Jones said Friday during an appearance on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas. “It’s probably accurate that I did express myself in probably a way that’s not…

SEOUL: A South Korean court on Saturday (Oct 22) issued arrest warrants for a former defence minister and a former coast guard chief over their alleged mishandling of the death of a state fishery ministry employee at the hands of North Korean troops two years ago. The decision by the Seoul Central District Court, which cited risks of them fleeing or destroying evidence, came days after the prosecutors on Tuesday filed for arrest warrants and follows an investigation by the government that showed previously unpublished details about the final moments of the fisheries official Lee Dae-jin. The latest documents from…