BERLIN (AP) — German state officials said Friday that they want advertisers and social media influencers to label any photos that have used so-called beauty filters.

Critics argue that the filters, which offer easy ways to touch up images and remove supposed blemishes, promote unrealistic standards of beauty particularly among women and girls.

The dpa news agency quoted Hamburg's state minister for equality, Katharina Fegebank, saying that digital tools should not determine what is considered beautiful or not.

A majority of officials from Germany's 16 states want the federal government to come up with legislation that would require the labeling of images and videos where beauty filters were used to enhance a person's face, skin or hair.

This would apply to commercial advertising and influencers with a significant number of followers, Fegebank was quoted as saying.

Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are reportedly in an "epic fight" over his decision to un-retire from the NFL, and she's left the family compound.

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Harwood weighed in on Joe Biden's primetime speech that criticized "MAGA Republicans" for trying to take the U.S. backwards.

At the same comedy show, Rock said the quip that offended Smith was "the nicest joke I ever told."

Chaos engulfed Trump's last days in the White House, in part because he didn't think he'd actually be leaving office.

Trump said Bill Barr was a "weak and pathetic RINO" after he said the Justice Department probably had "pretty good evidence" before Mar-a-Lago raid.

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The MSNBC host skewers the former president for covering his trail of missteps with mistruths

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Most chilling, say security experts, is that several retrieved classified and top secret folders were empty.

The former White House press secretary was lauded for unintentionally saying something true.

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The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups, churches and others — rhetoric that Democrats say amounts to threatening violence. Tim Michels, who co-owns the state's largest construction company, faces Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in the battleground state. If Michels wins, he will be in position to enact a host of GOP priorities passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature leading into the 2024 presidential election.

US District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, did not issue a final ruling and said she needs time to consider both sides' arguments.

Trump in a radio show Thursday was still insisting he had declassified the documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago after leaving office.

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