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By GABRIELA SÁ PESSOA and MAURICIO SAVARESE

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil started blocking Elon Musk’s social media platform X early Saturday, making it largely inaccessible on both the web and through its mobile app after the company refused to comply with a judge’s order.

X missed a deadline imposed by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes to name a legal representative in Brazil, triggering the suspension. It marks an escalation in the monthslong feud between Musk and de Moraes over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation.

To block X, Brazil’s telecommunications regulator, Anatel, told internet service providers to suspend users’ access to the social media platform. As of Saturday at midnight local time, major operators began doing so.

De Moraes had warned Musk on Wednesday night that X could be blocked in Brazil if he failed to comply with his order to name a representative, and established a 24-hour deadline. The company hasn’t had a representative in the country since earlier this month. read more

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The U.S. labor market is expected to grow by 0.4% a year through 2033, less than one-third of the pace in the preceding decade, according to new Bureau of Labor Statistics projections.

The annual rate translates to 6.7 million additional jobs over the decade, or about 55,000 a month, the BLS said in a report published Thursday.

The main driver is slower population growth. The BLS forecasts that the “non-institutional population” — which excludes categories like prisoners or people in military service — will rise by 16.4 million through 2033. That’s about 5 million fewer than in the previous decade, and it translates to the slowest growth rate that the Bureau has projected since it began publishing the data in 1948.

One implication of the slowdown is that older people will make up a larger share of the population. Since those Americans are less likely to be working, the overall labor force participation rate is projected to fall some 1.4 percentage points over the decade, to 61.2% with both men and women experiencing declines. read more

A Russian and the first Space Force astronaut will get to fly up to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-9 mission next month as NASA chose which two of four previously assigned crew will have to sit the flight out to make room for the two astronauts of Boeing’s Starliner who need a ride home.

NASA announced it was sticking with veteran NASA astronaut and now U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to act as commander and mission specialist, respectively, for the mission while previously assigned Crew-9 members and NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Stephanie Wilson will have to stay home.

That will leave two seats on board the SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who flew up to the ISS on Boeing’s Starliner having arrived on June 6. NASA last week decided Starliner wasn’t safe enough for them to return home after the Boeing spacecraft suffered thruster issues and helium leaks on the trip up. Starliner is slated to undock and leave the ISS as an uncrewed spacecraft as early as next Friday making room for Crew-9’s arrival. read more