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Tracy Mumford, Jonathan Wolfe, Ruth Graham, Ian Stewart, Jessica Metzger and James Shield

Inside the U.C.L.A. Protests, and Trump Holds Rallies Amid Trial

Plus, tracking killer asteroids.

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Corina Knoll, Jonathan Wolfe and Emily Baumgaertner

UCLA Cancels Classes After Violent Clashes Between Protesters and Police

The school was ill prepared when protesters blocked students from accessing parts of campus and counterprotesters violently attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment.

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TikTok and Universal Music reach a deal, restoring artists to platform

Some of the world's favorite artists will be returning soon to TikTok.

TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have reached a "multi-dimensional" deal that will restore the music of UMG's vast client roster – including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, and Drake – to the app.

In February, UMG began pulling their catalogue from TikTok after soured negotiations between the two powerhouses. The music group called out TikTok on key issues like protecting...

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Instagram promises to amplify smaller creators

Instagram is apparently making strides towards amplifying smaller creators on the platform.

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced in an Instagram Reel that the company is working to help smaller creators get more reach on the app, primarily by making changes to how they rank recommendations.

"Historically, if I'm honest, I don't think Instagram has been good enough by small creators out there," Mosseri says, adding "not enough goes out to the little guys."

Mosseri explained that...

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How to unblock Xnxx porn for free

TL;DR: Bypass geo-restrictions to unblock free porn sites with a high-speed VPN. The best VPN for unblocking and watching Xnxx is ExpressVPN.

There is a time and place for visiting your favorite porn sites. There are a lot of locations around the world that block access to sites like Pornhub and xHamster, and that's probably for the best. However, there is something to be said for retaining your online freedom (when the time is right).

We're not suggesting that you bypass online restrictions...

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5 essential gadgets for turning your home into a self-care sanctuary

While some people gain energy from going out and talking to people, others gain it from staying at home. Spending a cosy night in can be a comforting and restorative experience, whether you're curling up on the couch to binge watch Netflix, sipping a hot drink while devouring a book, or practising mindfulness in a relaxing hot bath.

Your home should be a refuge — a safe place where you can relax, decompress, and take shelter from the stresses of your workday. As such, it's vital to...

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Ryan Gosling beats up 8 men during action-packed Jimmy Kimmel entrance

Ryan Gosling appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and made a dramatic, action-packed entrance.

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LinkedIn now offers 3 online games

Move over, Wordle? LinkedIn is expanding on its social media-like nature, now offering three online games to its users.

Its new games page has three options – Pinpoint, Crossclimb, and Queens – that first-degree connections can play together or individuals can try themselves. The company is marketing these games as a way to "compete with your connections, spark conversations, and break the ice".

SEE ALSO: How to see who viewed your LinkedIn profile ...

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Lance Lambert

These 2 numbers clearly explain the housing market’s lock-in effect

The typical homeowner has a mortgage rate that’s 3 percentage points below the current market rate. Here’s what that’s doing to the housing market.

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Susan Karlin

How Aerospace Corp and Space Foundation are diversifying space

Their Space Workforce 2030 initiative is ramping up efforts to bridge the space industry talent and diversity gap by the end of the decade by guiding minority STEM aspirants from kindergarten through college and into jobs.

Space was the farthest thing from Jocelyn Gonzalez’s mind when she enrolled at California State University, Long Beach. A Mexican-American, Gonzalez grew up speaking Spanish and was the first in her family to pursue an engineering degree. Although she’d fallen in love...

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Hunter Schwarz

MLB will fix its uniforms for next season. Here’s who it blamed for the poor design

MLB promised major improvements with its new uniforms. Now it’s saying Nike botched the design.

Major League Baseball is going back to the drawing board for its uniforms next season, and claims Nike is the one who struck out on the current design.

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Chris Morris

Why facial recognition technology makes these campus protests different from those in the past

At campus protests across the country, many are covering their faces as fears of police surveillance, facial recognition technology, and doxing rise.

The images on newscasts have been inescapable for the past several days. Protestors, presumed to be students, took over buildings at Columbia, facing off against police in riot gear, while on Emory University’s quadrangle, police pinned protestors to the ground, securing them with zip ties.

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Tess Owen

Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups

After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles have been quietly reorganizing and ramping up recruitment and rhetoric on Facebook.

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Lauren Goode

The Unsexy Future of Generative AI Is Enterprise Apps

Some startups that launched buzzy generative AI products are now narrowing their offerings to try to make them more useful to business clients.

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Jori Finkel

Kehinde Wiley’s New Show Seeks Enlightenment in Darkness

Many artists are dimming the lights of their museum shows, for a mix of symbolic and spiritual reasons.

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Julia Jacobs and Matt Stevens

Schneider Sues ‘Quiet on Set’ Producers for Defamation

In the suit, lawyers for the former Nickelodeon producer called the documentary a “hit job” that had falsely painted him as a “child sexual abuser.”

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Frank Litsky

Olga Fikotova Connolly, Olympian in a Cold War Romance, Dies at 91

She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.

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Jesus Jiménez and Michael Levenson

Armed Student Is Killed Near Wisconsin Middle School, Officials Say

School officials in Mount Horeb, Wis., southwest of Madison, said that no one else was harmed and that schools were placed on lockdown.

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Coral Davenport

Biden Will Expand Two National Monuments in California

As part of his plan to conserve the nation’s land and waters, Mr. Biden is enlarging the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.

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Matthew Schmitz

Donald Trump Embraces Lawlessness, but in the Name of a Higher Law

When authorities are seen as corrupt, we celebrate those who defy them.

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