X (formerly Twitter) began blocking searches for Taylor Swift days after sexually explicit deepfakes of her went viral on the platform

The message, “Something went wrong. Try reloading” appears when searching for her name on the platform

An executive at X told the BBC the action was taken “with an abundance of caution as we prioritize safety”

The Court of Arbitration for Sport disqualified a Russian figure skater from the 2022 Olympics, clearing the way for the US team to win gold

Then-15-year-old Kamila Valieva led Russia to a team gold in the 2022 Beijing Games. Days later, it was revealed that she had tested positive for a banned substance

Olympic authorities never awarded medals for the event, and on Sunday, a Swiss court retroactively banned Valieva, meaning her points won’t count toward Russia’s total

Russia criticized the ruling, which clears the way for the US to win gold and Japan to win silver

Per a dossier reviewed by The New York Times, Israeli intelligence believes 190+ UN workers doubled as members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian group

On Friday, Israel accused 12 employees of the UN’s main Palestinian aid group (UNRWA) of participating in the October 7th attack, but didn’t clarify the nature of the allegations

Per the new dossier, among other things, Israel claimed one UNRWA employee was told to bring rocket-propelled grenades to a staging point and another helped attack an Israeli kibbutz

It has names and pictures of 11 of the 12 UNRWA workers it claims participated in October 7

Researchers found what they said could be Amelia Earhart’s long-lost plane 16,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean

Earhart and her navigator went missing on July 2, 1937 during her attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by plane

Earhart’s death has become one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, spawning a host of theories

Using underwater drones, South Carolina-based company Deep Sea Vision found what it believes may be Earhart’s plane ~100 miles off the coast of a small, uninhabited Pacific island

Video credit: deep.sea.vision (Instagram)

A US jury ordered chemical company Monsanto to pay $2.25B over allegations its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer

A 49-year-old from Philadelphia filed the lawsuit, arguing his use of Roundup caused him to develop non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

On Friday, a jury ruled in his favor, arguing that Roundup is carcinogenic and that Monsanto was negligent in its failure to warn consumers

Monsanto called the award “unconstitutionally excessive.” The company has paid billions in other lawsuits related to the product, which US regulators as recently as 2020 said is not carcinogenic

Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso – all of which have experienced military coups in recent years – announced they will withdraw from a West African economic community called ECOWAS

ECOWAS began in 1975 as an economic union of West African states. It has since evolved into a broader political community that upholds democracy, security, stability, and more

ECOWAS imposed sanctions on Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso after their militaries overthrew their civilian governments

On Sunday, all three countries said they plan to leave ECOWAS, citing its “inhumane” policies

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