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TikTok is giving users new ways to interact with others via direct messages (DMs), the company told TechCrunch on Friday. Users will now be able to send voice notes and share up to nine images or videos in one-to-one and group chats on the platform. With these new features, TikTok is positioning itself as more than just an entertainment platform, aiming to become a place where users interact regularly beyond simply sending each other TikTok videos. Additionally, the new capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging experience more in line with that of other popular social apps and services. With voice notes, users…

Adam RittenbergAug 30, 2025, 01:25 AM ETCloseCollege football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.BOULDER, Colo. — Deion Sanders ran onto the field with his Colorado team Friday night, just months removed from having surgery to replace and reconstruct his bladder after a tumor was found this spring.Sanders, 58, jogged past a portable toilet placed next to Colorado’s bench area for him to use during the game, which was sponsored by Depend, the adult incontinence undergarment company. He slowed near the South end zone and gently tapped his players who were kneeling in prayer.After the most serious health…

At least one person has been killed and 24 wounded, including two children, in attack that targeted Zaporizhia.Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025A “massive” overnight Russian attack on central and southeastern Ukraine has killed at least one person, with homes and businesses damaged in multiple cities, authorities have said, while Kyiv has struck two Russian oil refineries.“At night, the enemy carried out massive strikes” on Zaporizhia, Ukraine’s state emergency service said on Telegram on Saturday.At least one person was killed and 24 others were wounded, including two children, according to regional military administration chief Ivan Fedorov.“Russian strikes destroyed private…

The Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, who created the celebrated ballets Anna Karenina and the Carmen Suite, has died in Germany at the age of 92, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre said on Friday.He and his wife of 57 years, the legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, dominated the Soviet and Russian cultural scene for the latter part of the last century. She died in 2015.Shchedrin’s work ranged from choral music and concertos to opera and ballet, blending Russian folk influences, classical traditions and avant garde technique. His 1972 ballet Anna Karenina remains a staple for major theaters around the world.The Bolshoi Theatre, where Shchedrin…

In another victory for the right wing, a criminal case against ex-interim leader Anez has been annulled.Published On 30 Aug 202530 Aug 2025Right-wing Bolivian opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has been released from jail after spending nearly three years in pretrial detention for his role in unrest that led to the 2019 ouster of then left-wing President Evo Morales.As the political right’s momentum accelerates ahead of a presidential election run-off in October, Camacho returned to a hero’s welcome in the eastern province of Santa Cruz after his release on Friday from a maximum-security prison near La Paz.Thousands of supporters waved…

254 Nigeria is losing about 400,000 hectares of forest every year to unchecked deforestation, a development that charcoal industry stakeholders say threatens both the sector and the country’s environmental commitments. The National President of the National Charcoal Producers, Dealers, Exporters, and Afforestation of Nigeria, Mr. Babatunde Edu, disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting held in Abuja on Thursday. Edu, while addressing participants, said the trend had reached an alarming level and called for urgent enforcement of compliance across the sector. “We gather not merely to discuss, but to act. The charcoal sector in Nigeria stands at a critical juncture. On…

About guns, grief, and the global dilemma, what Minneapolis and Israel reveal about firearm policy. Two places, the armed man, one protects, one harms, why the difference? Minneapolis, Minnesota School Shooting, August 27, 2025 On August 27, 2025, the quiet sanctity of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was shattered when a shooter opened fire during the morning of the first day of school year Mass. Two children—8 and 10 years old—were killed, and 17 others were injured, most of them children. The shooter, armed with a rifle, shotgun, and pistol—all legally purchased—fired dozens of rounds through the stained glass…

Micah Parsons says he just went through the hardest four months of his life as he feared his contract stalemate with the Dallas Cowboys would stretch into the start of the season.Now that the matter finally has been settled with a trade to the Green Bay Packers, the superstar pass rusher wants to create a legacy befitting one of the NFL’s storied franchises.One day after the Packers made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in league history, Parsons arrived at Green Bay on Friday, saw the exhibits saluting the franchise’s Hall of Famers and imagined his own future.“I looked on that wall…

The government is facing calls to explain why it has yet to implement all the recommendations from a 2023 review into a spate of serious public sector data breaches, including the exposure of Afghans who worked with British military, victims of child sexual abuse and 6,000 disability claimants.On Thursday ministers finally published the information security review, which was triggered by the 2023 leak of personal data of about 10,000 serving officers in the Police Service of Northern Ireland.The review by Cabinet Office officials into 11 public sector data breaches, encompassing the HMRC, the Metropolitan police, the benefits system and the…

A local councillor for Reform UK who works for the Home Office processing asylum and immigration claims has been suspended from his job while an investigation is carried out, the Guardian has learned.Paul Bean, who serves as a councillor for Crook ward at Durham county council, declared his day job as a civil servant at the Home Office in his register of interests.It is understood that an investigation by Home Office officials will look at whether any breach of the civil service code has occurred. The code states that all civil servants should be politically impartial and that civil servants…