The US has withdrawn from a series of international agreements aimed at countering alleged foreign “disinformation,” effectively ending joint efforts with EU governments to police online content, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed European officials. The US State Department notified participating nations last week that it would terminate memoranda of understanding signed under the Biden administration, according to the report published on Monday. The agreements with...

An image of the letter bearing Trump’s signature, which has been turned over to Congress by the Epstein estate. Lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the birthday book put together for the financier’s 50th birthday, which includes a letter with President Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. On Monday, House Oversight Committee members confirmed that they received a copy of the birthday book including the letter bearing Trump’s...

The US has informed countries in Europe that it is stepping back from joint efforts to combat disinformation from countries such as Russia, China and Iran, according to three European officials familiar with the matter.  European countries received a notice from the State Department last week that the US is terminating memoranda of understanding that were signed last year under the Biden administration, which sought to forge a unified approach to identifying and exposing malicious...

Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has dismantled the American government’s efforts to combat foreign disinformation. The problem is that Russia has not stopped spreading it. How much that matters can now be seen in Moldova, a small but strategic European nation that has since the end of the Cold War looked to Europe and the United States to extract itself from Moscow’s shadow.

The Wall Street Journal on Monday reported that Jeffrey Epstein's estate had provided to Congress "a copy of the letter" the Journal says was written by Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. That letter was part of a "birthday book" of letters presented to Epstein on the occasion of his 50th birthday. That image shows a drawing of a nude woman's silhouette with text, the signature, "Donald," where the woman's pubic hair would be. The Journal provided the copy to Congress in...

Nepal became the third country in South Asia to topple its leader in recent years after violent protests over corruption and a social-media ban forced its prime minister to resign. Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli’s press representative, Prakash Silwal, confirmed his resignation, which came Tuesday as demonstrators in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu defied curfews to attack the homes and properties of political leaders they held responsible for the deaths of at least 19 protesters in...

The reading skills of American high school seniors are the worst they have been in three decades, according to new federal testing data, a worrying sign for teenagers as they face an uncertain job market and information landscape challenged by A.I. In math, 12th graders had the lowest performance since 2005. The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, long regarded as the nation’s most reliable, gold-standard exam, showed that about a third of the 12th-graders who...

A crew of “old ladies” ages 64-85 are on a mission to preserve ponds in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by diving for underwater garbage. Source: Meet the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage Fun!

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