The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led bid to curb government contact with social media companies to moderate their content, a ruling that could bolster efforts to fight misinformation. The decision hands a win to President Joe Biden's administration ahead of the presidential vote in November, allowing it to continue notifying major platforms about what it deems as false or hateful content. The justices, voting 6-3, threw out the case on the grounds that the challengers -- including two states and social media users -- had not suffered a direct injury that provided a legal standing to sue.

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The United States offered rare criticism of close partner India in a report published Wednesday on religious freedom, while also voicing alarm over rising bigotry worldwide against both Jews and Muslims. Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the annual report and said that the US was also facing its own sharp increase of both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in connection to the Gaza war.

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Bolivian President Luis Arce on Wednesday slammed an attempted "coup d'etat" after soldiers and tanks deployed outside government buildings and tried to knock down a door of the presidential palace. One of the tanks tried to break down a door of the presidential palace, which was surrounded by soldiers and tanks. Army chief General Juan Jose Zuniga confirmed his group's uprising against the government.

HOW THE BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT IS UNDER A MAJOR THREAT

Bolivia is the only nation that produces copaiba, a plant that does what?

Wednesday's answer: Nine countries have legal recreational marijuana nationwide -- Canada, Malta, Mexico, Georgia, Germany, Luxembourg, South Africa, Thailand, Uruguay -- and parts of the US and Australia.