Graham Platner, a Democrat, had acknowledged the tattoo this week on a podcast. He also sought to distance himself from old Reddit posts that drew criticism.

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Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services, cited a problem at its data center in Northern Virginia. The outage highlighted the fragility of global internet infrastructure.

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Nepal’s recent social media ban, part of a global censorship trend, helped set off widespread unrest, forcing the government to reverse course.