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Twitter tests new e-commerce features for tweets

Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new way to display tweets that link out to e-commerce product pages — like products on a Shopify store, for example. With a new Twitter card format, the company is experimenting with tweets that include

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Texas doctors say Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to scrap mask mandate could result in another Covid-19 surge – NBC News

Texas doctors say Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to scrap mask mandate could result in another Covid-19 surge  NBC News Texas lifts mask mandate and other COVID-19 restrictions despite health officials’ warnings  CBS News Celebrities react to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to reopen

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Rare 15th century Chinese bowl found at US yard sale

How about this for bargain-hunting? A small bowl bought for $35 in a yard sale in the US turned out to be a rare 15th century Chinese artifact possibly worth $500,000. The porcelain bowl — with delicate floral motifs —

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Okta acquires cloud identity startup Auth0 for $6.5B

As Okta announced earnings today after the bell, it revealed that it’s buying cloud identity startup Auth0 for a hefty $6.5 billion. The company had a valuation of $1.92 billion when it raised $120 million led by Salesforce Ventures last

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Ultra-Orthodox party leader disavows colleague’s ‘shiksas’ comment

UTJ chairman says MK Yitzhak Pindrus was wrong to use the pejorative term, but insists ultra-Orthodox rabbis should be the authority on conversions to Judaism

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Louvre recovers 16th-century armor, four decades after theft

The Louvre museum in Paris said Wednesday that it had recovered a set of gold and silver-encrusted Renaissance-era armor nearly 40 years after it was stolen. A military antiques expert alerted police after being called in to give advice regarding

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Democrats Promised to Transform Health Care. But Their Relief Bill Hands the Health Care Industry a Big Win

Democrats spent months in 2020 debating huge, transformative solutions to America’s broken health care system. They promised to take on the health insurance industry, lower costs, and ensure that no family would go broke paying for the care they needed—and

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Facebook derails effort to mislead protesters in Russia

Facebook on Wednesday said it derailed a deceptive campaign to use hundreds of bogus Instagram accounts to mislead people in Russia protesting the arrest of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. The network off Instagram accounts used hashtag and location “poisoning” typically

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Colombia’s President On Amnesty For Venezuelans: ‘We Want To Set An Example’

“We want to demonstrate that although we’re not a rich country, we can do something that is humanitarian … but at the same time is an intelligent and sound migration policy,” Iván Duque tells NPR. (Image credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

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Can Joe Biden get America out of the Middle East?

The past two American presidents thought they were too involved with the Middle East, but the Middle East refused to let them go

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