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Mark Zuckerberg is taking his rivalry with Elon Musk to another social media platform, launching the Threads app, which is expected to rival Twitter. Musk bought Twitter last year for $44 billion.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- “Bidenomics” is to thank for bringing hundreds of new clean energy manufacturing jobs to the South Carolina Midlands, President Joe Biden said Thursday, standing inside a West Columbia facility that will begin partnering in the production of solar energy products.

A fourth victim was found dead shortly after a mass shooting during a Fourth of July block party in Shreveport, Louisiana, which also left another seven people wounded.

The Georgia Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, elected on Thursday Commissioner Jason Shaw as its incoming chairman effective July 22.

Michael Brian Protzman, the leader of a QAnon-centric group who brought hundreds of followers to Dallas to await the supposed resurrections of long-dead President John F. Kennedy and his son — tearing countless families apart in the process — died following a crash last month, according to authorities in Minnesota.

The FBI is warning people of predators targeting children online using a tactic called “group grooming.”

OceanGate said it is suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” after five people were killed — including the company’s CEO Stockton Rush — during a deep-sea expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic.

A Texas man who was reported missing eight years ago at age 17 actually returned home the following day, Houston police said Thursday.

Google users can now apply for their share of a $23 million privacy lawsuit settlement.