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Former President Donald Trump has exploited a licensing error by the Associated Press and plans to publish a now-iconic AP photo of himself on the cover of his latest book, Raw Story has learned.

The $99 book — titled “Save America” and published by Winning Team Publishing, which Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. co-founded — features AP photographer Evan Vucci’s image of Trump pumping his fist skyward seconds after a gunman’s bullet hit Trump’s ear during a July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pa.

“In all the activity over the weekend of July 13, we neglected to immediately add full restrictions to photos from the attempted assassination of former President Trump to make clear they are for editorial use only,” said Nicole Meir, media relations manager for AP. “We added those restrictions three days later. During that window, a handful of organizations licensed the image for non-editorial purposes.”...

An already iconic image of Donald Trump's bloodied face and pumped fist immediately after a failed assassination attempt on Saturday can be seen on tote bags, T-shirts, trading cards and other merchandise for sale across the Internet.

Versions of that image belong to the news organizations whose photojournalists captured the moment, including Evan Vucci of the Associated Press, Anna Moneymaker of Getty and Doug Mills of The New York Times.

Yet, those selling merchandise with the image or using it for fundraising — including the former president's reelection campaign — often fail to credit the photographers or get permission to use the images for commercial purposes....

NEW YORK — Executives at KSK Construction, the Brooklyn-based contractor facing scrutiny as part of a federal investigation into Mayor Adams’ 2021 campaign, have made contributions to and worked with Turkey’s second largest political party, which controls more than a fifth of the country’s parliament, according to federal disclosures. The revelations about KSK’s ties to the Turkish Republican People’s Party come on the heels of reports that the federal probe is scrutinizing whether Adams’ campaign conspired with KSK and the Turkish government to funnel illegal foreign cash into the campaign’s ......

Twitter rival Threads — the Meta-owned app seen as a major rival to Elon Musk’s troubled microblogging platform — already has 30 million signups, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday morning. The newest addition to the Meta line of web-based products debuted with a bang. The much-hyped application, already dubbed the “Twitter Killer app,” officially launched Wednesday night. About two hours after that, 2 million people had already signed up for it, Zuckerberg shared in his third-ever post on the platform. A few hours later, the Facebook co-founder went back on the site to announce 10 million......

The large Chinese spy balloon that floated over half the U.S. before being shot down by a fighters jet in February was reportedly made in part with off-the-shelf U.S. equipment. It’s unclear if materials used to make the balloon were acquired legally, according to ABC News, which is a cause for concern since the U.S. restricts what can be sold to certain countries. The nature of the American-made materials found in the balloon is also not clear. U.S. officials said in February the balloon contained technology that would allow it to intercept secret communications. However, ABC News reports tha......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — In the final chapter for one of the most venerable landmarks along Monterey Bay, crews with excavators and other heavy equipment on Monday tore apart the 500-foot-long wooden pier at Seacliff State Beach in Aptos. Popular with generations of beachgoers and anglers, the pier, built in 1930, was best known as the connection between sweeping sandy beaches of Santa Cruz County and the SS Palo Alto, a Word War I-era steamship widely called the “cement ship.” The wooden pier was severely damaged by huge waves during storms on Jan. 5, and was in imminent danger of collapse, state p......