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Kurdish separatist fighters began laying down weapons.
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey have begun laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in northern Iraq, the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament as part of a peace process. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced in May it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending four decades of hostilities.
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A federal judge paused Trump's birthright citizenship order.
The New Hampshire judge said he’ll certify a class action lawsuit including all children who will be affected by President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship and issue a preliminary injunction blocking it. Judge Joseph LaPlante announced his decision Thursday after an hour-long hearing and said a written order will follow. The order will include a seven-day stay to allow for appeal.
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Nvidia surpasses $4 trillion market valuation.
Silicon Valley chipmaker Nvidia on Wednesday became the first publicly traded company to reach the mark, emphasizing investor frenzy surrounding an artificial intelligence boom powered by its industry-leading processors. The milestone reflects the upheaval being unleashed by artificial intelligence, or AI, which is widely viewed as the biggest tectonic shift in technology since Apple unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago. Nvidia is now worth $900 billion more than Apple.
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Court pauses “click-to-cancel” rule.
The rule would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships. The Federal Trade Commission’s changes required businesses to disclose when free trials or other promotional offers will end and let customers cancel recurring subscriptions as easily as they started them. The rule was set to go into effect on Monday, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said the FTC made a procedural error in its related cost analysis.
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