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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign released a new Facebook ad featuring a picture of a group of protesters attacking a police officer along with the words “public safety vs. chaos and violence.” But that photo is actually from a pro-democracy protest in Kiev, Ukraine, in 2014. The photographer, Mstyslav Chernov, …

Ireland launched its contact tracking app on July 7, and within a week it had 1.3 million downloads, roughly 37% of the country’s adult population. NearForm, the company that created the app for the Irish Health Authority, has donated its code to an open source project. Other countries and US …

Tim Smith, the singer of the British cult group Cardiacs, died on Tuesday night (July 22), The Guardian reports, citing bandmates and Smith’s label. He was 59 years old. Although no cause of death has been provided, Smith had experienced health problems since he suffered a heart attack and stroke …

When the COVID-19 pandemic brought the country to lockout and tens of millions of workers lost their jobs, Congress voted to add $ 600 a week to what individual states paid for in unemployment insurance. That extra money was a lifeline that was desperately needed by many because state unemployment …

(Bloomberg) – Former Wirecard AG chief executive Markus Braun and two other former officials were arrested when prosecutors said the company knew of massive losses as early as 2015. © Bloomberg Markus Braun, CEO of Wirecard AG, pauses during an interview by Bloomberg Television at the Noah Technology Conference in …