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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Portuguese digital rights group D3 has filed lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, accusing them of designing features in their platforms that keep users hooked, it said on Thursday. The four collective actions, which allow associations to bring cases on behalf of a broader group of consumers, follow on from lawsuits in other countries that have challenged social media’s addictive design. […]

WASHINGTON, Sept 10(Reuters) – U.S. wholesale inventories surged in July, the government confirmed on Thursday, potentially positioning inventories to contribute to economic growth in the third quarter. Stocks at wholesalers jumped by an unrevised 1.3%, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said. Inventories, a key part of gross domestic product, increased 0.4% in July. They rose 5.7% on a year-over-year basis in July. Businesses are replenishing inventories, which have been drawn […]

By Field Level Media Sep 10 (Field Level Media) – Minnesota Wild star defenseman Quinn Hughes insists he isn’t feeling rushed to sign his next contract. Hughes addressed the issue on Wednesday as he heads into the final season of his six-year, $47.1 million deal. “This is going to be done whenever I feel like it needs to be done,” Hughes said as part of the NHL Player Media Tour […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Sept 10 (Reuters) – JD.com’s concessions to ease EU subsidy concerns about the Chinese e-commerce giant’s $2.5 billion purchase of German electronics retailer Ceconomy have prompted criticism from competitors, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. They said the European Commission, which acts as the European Union’s competition enforcer, informed JD.com earlier this week of the responses to concessions it offered last month. The Commission, […]

By Julien Pretot Sept 10 (Reuters) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino can count on enough votes to win re-election, meaning his opponents will need to shift strategy and focus on curbing his powers, a sharp reversal weeks after senior football figures believed his position was untenable, multiple sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters. “Three weeks ago, I thought he was dead,” one global football source with first-hand knowledge of discussions […]

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Los Angeles Rams finally touched down in Australia just before dawn on Thursday, and they hope to head home before the sun sets Friday. They’ll have only about 36 hours in Melbourne between their 15-hour flights, but coach Sean McVay remains confident this unusual itinerary provides the Rams’ best chance to open the regular season with a difficult win over the San Francisco 49ers. “We’re […]

ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered Yemen’s strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, several residents said Thursday, which could bring them closer to targeting shipping through a critical waterway to the Red Sea. Separately, an Israeli strike killed at least four people in northern Gaza, including two children. And Israel warned Iran of a “powerful response” if Tehran attacks, threatening it could target Iran’s energy facilities […]

BERLIN (AP) — The Swiss federal intelligence service on Thursday published a 200-page dossier on the notorious Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele, the German doctor known as the “Angel of Death” for conducting horrific medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. During World War II, Mengele served at the Auschwitz extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where about 1.1 million people were killed, approximately 1 million of them Jews. He became infamous […]

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes declined in August to their slowest annual pace in more than a year as home shoppers grappled with rising mortgage rates and home prices. Existing home sales fell 2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.98 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. This is the third straight monthly decline. Sales also fell 1.2% compared with August […]