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Biden Officials Pressed Trans Medical Group to Change Guidelines for Minors, Court Filings Show

✇NYT: Science
Azeen Ghorayshi
Newly released emails from an influential group issuing transgender medical guidelines indicate that U.S. health officials lobbied to remove age minimums for surgery in minors because of concerns over political fallout.

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Staff for Adm. Rachel Levine, an assistant secretary at the Department of Health and Human Services, urged the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to drop proposed age limits from the group’s guidelines.

These Grieving Parents Want Congress to Protect Children Online

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Cecilia Kang
A group is using the Mothers Against Drunk Driving playbook, sharing personal tragedies, to lobby for the Kids Online Safety Act.

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Kristin Bride, a member of ParentsSOS, next to an apple tree she planted after her son Carson’s suicide in 2020. The apple’s variety is Sweet Sixteen, Carson’s age when he died.

Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War

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Sheera Frenkel
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s military, according to officials and documents about the effort.

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The campaign focused on more than a dozen members of Congress, including Representative Ritchie Torres, left, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader.

Once a Sheriff’s Deputy in Florida, Now a Source of Disinformation From Russia

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Steven Lee Myers
In 2016, Russia used an army of trolls to interfere in the U.S. presidential election. This year, an American given asylum in Moscow may be accomplishing much the same thing all by himself.

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John Mark Dougan, who has been granted asylum in Moscow, above, has become a key player in the Kremlin’s information operations against the West.

Saudi Arabia Eyes a Future Beyond Oil

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Stanley Reed
The kingdom is trying to juggle its still-vital petroleum industry with alternative energy sources like wind and solar as it faces pressure to lower carbon emissions.

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Arrays of solar panels help power the Jazlah Water Desalination plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia, reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

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Erica L. Green
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His “Investing in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

TikTok, Facing US Ban, Tells Advertisers It Won’t Back Down

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Sapna Maheshwari
Hundreds of marketers and ad agency types flocked to TikTok’s annual sales presentation after a new law put its future in question.

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Blake Chandlee, TikTok’s president of global business solutions, last June. In Manhattan Thursday, he said: “We believe the facts and the law are clearly on our side and that we will ultimately prevail.”

Campus Protests Give Russia, China and Iran Fuel to Exploit U.S. Divide

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Steven Lee Myers and Tiffany Hsu
America’s adversaries have mounted online campaigns to amplify the social and political conflicts over Gaza flaring at universities, researchers say.

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A protester with a Palestinian flag on a Columbia University building on Monday. So far, there is little evidence that U.S. adversaries have provided material or organizational support to the protests.

UnitedHealth’s CEO Slammed Over Cyberattack

✇NYT: Science
Reed Abelson and Noah Weiland
Several lawmakers questioned whether the company had become so large — with tentacles in every aspect of the nation’s medical care — that the effects of the hack were outsize.

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Andrew Witty, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group, acknowledged before the Senate Finance Committee that hackers had found a weakness in its cybersecurity that forced the shutdown of a vast billing and payments system.
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