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anti-establishment protests throughout the country. Earlier, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

accused protesters of appeasing Donald Trump, while Mr Trump warned Iran's leaders not to start shooting

or will start shooting

too. Rights groups estimate that authorities have killed at least three dozen people since protests began

on December 28th. Thousands of people protested in Minneapolis after an immigration officer

killed a woman in her car on Wednesday. The Trump administration has excluded state investigators from the

case and cast the victim Renee Nicole Good as a left-wing terrorist. Footage of the incident

showed the officer insulting Ms. Good after he had shot her. Elon Musk hit back at critics of his

social media platform X, saying they are looking for any excuse for censorship after the site's AI tool,

GROC, sparked outrage for allowing users to generate sexualized images of people without their

consent, including children. Earlier, Indonesia became the first country to block GROC. In response

to the criticism, X restricted GROC's image editing features to paying subscribers.

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