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Today's edition raises big questions about online safety, the future of medicine, and a historic moment in sports. We're also following rising tensions overseas, surprising economic shifts, and new discoveries that could change how we understand the past.

From everyday grocery bills to technology's expanding role in our lives, there's plenty worth exploring.

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TikTok employees repeatedly raised internal concerns about the risks the short-form video app posed to children, including sexual exploitation and exposure to suicide content, according to previously unreported court records. Depositions filed in federal court in March show staffers were frustrated with how the company's leadership responded.

An internal investigation found children aged 13 to 15 appeared in 112,000 TikTok Live videos in January 2022, according to employee testimony, and that it drew significant revenue from gifts sent to rule-breaking livestreams. TikTok declined to provide a statement. It is a defendant with Meta, Google and Snap in hundreds of suits over harm to minors.

Mississippi's attorney general has ruled that police used justified force when they fired at a car during a shoplifting investigation in Senatobia in June, killing 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, who was sitting on his mother's lap in the passenger seat. Police say the car was being driven at officers.

Officers had been called to a Walmart over a report that diapers and baby clothes were allegedly stolen. His mother has denied the allegation, and neither she nor the driver has been charged with a crime. A lawyer for the family denounced the findings on Monday and called for footage of the shooting to be released.

Ukrainians have died because Kyiv is still not getting reliable US warnings of incoming Russian missiles, a Zelensky adviser said, though the White House says there have been no changes to intelligence sharing. Kyiv first reported the interruption last week as a row over its deal to import Russian oil sent relations with Washington to new lows.

Zelensky had said in an interview that sharing was restored after a three-day pause, but on Monday morning he wrote that one of two overnight ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv came without warning. Last week a speed cap on Starlink's military service limited Ukraine's ability to shoot down drones, and the adviser said such restrictions are ongoing.

Alberta voters overwhelmingly chose to stay in Canada, with early results showing 77% backing unity after more than 1 million ballots were counted in the province's separation referendum.

Student-led protesters in Albania clashed with riot police for a seventh straight day in Tirana, demanding Edi Rama's resignation, with 295 people, 186 of them police, hurt before Monday's violence.

South Korea will withdraw some staff from Kyiv, deepening its row with Ukraine over Zelensky's disclosure of a North Korean prisoner transfer Seoul insists was supposed to stay secret.

The Justice Department charged 28 noncitizens in California with election crimes on Monday as it asked a federal court to stop the state from processing some returned ballots.

A Minnesota 18-year-old accused of plotting a terror attack at the Mall of America will stay jailed after a judge ruled he is a risk to the community.

More than 100,000 Ukrainians and Sudanese can stay in the US for now after Homeland Security said they retain protection on the day it was set to expire.

General Motors reports third-quarter earnings before Tuesday's opening bell, with Wall Street expecting flat revenue but a roughly 30% jump in adjusted earnings per share from a year earlier.

Oracle risks a credit rating downgrade that could tip its debt into junk territory, with the software giant already rated BBB-, the lowest investment-grade rung, as tech borrowing worries linger.

Copper prices have rallied 15.8% this year, comfortably outshining gold's 4% slide, as investors bet demand from power grids, defense and data centers will keep the industrial metal strategically prized.

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AI has helped chart 461 years of British seafaring by processing about 100,000 pages of records that show trade from coal and ale to sheep guts and Venice treacle.

An estimated 15 million Americans live with autoimmune diseases, and ancient DNA studies suggest gene variants that helped Bronze Age herders survive animal-borne infections may now be turning against us.

A single photo of your face could help doctors gauge how ill cancer patients are, US researchers say, after training a tool on millions of faces and 35,000 patient photos.

The Tampa Bay Rays are headed to the World Series after beating Cleveland 7-3 in Game 6, setting up a showdown with Milwaukee that guarantees a first-time champion.

Brock Purdy became the highest-rated passer in NFL history as the 49ers held off Washington 23-17 on Monday night, surviving a furious comeback to stay unbeaten at 6-0.

Philadelphia beat Colorado 3-2 for a second straight win after opening the season with nine consecutive losses as Matvei Michkov scored twice for the Flyers.

Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin was carted off with a potentially significant knee injury, coach Dan Quinn said, with more testing scheduled Tuesday to determine its severity.

Longtime Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday, a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist in criticism, died Sunday at her Baltimore home at 66, having spent over two decades at the paper.

Daisy Edgar-Jones prepped for Elinor Dashwood by listening to Dolly Parton songs, she said at the Los Angeles premiere of her new Jane Austen adaptation "Sense and Sensibility."

The producers behind the hit "Rivals" have secured rights to every Rutshire Chronicles novel by the late Jilly Cooper, and its executive producer says "we can make it go forever."

What it is: Grocery prices took their biggest leap in decades in April 2020, rose 11.4% in 2022 alone and have kept climbing since, just more slowly and roughly in line with overall inflation. Within that, some items now cost less while others have risen far beyond what inflation explains, often for reasons specific to one crop, animal or region.

The detail: A pound of ground beef cost $6.79 last month, an 85% jump from a decade earlier as droughts helped shrink the US cattle herd to its smallest in 75 years. Eggs hit a record $6.23 a dozen in March of last year after a brutal avian flu season and fell to $2.27 last month. Coffee, more than 99% of it imported, was still 44% higher than two years earlier even after tariffs on it were scrapped last fall, as drought and heavy rain cut harvests.

Why it matters: Butter is bucking the trend, averaging $3.96 a pound in September, down 17.3% from a year earlier, because dairy farms grew their herds to supply milk proteins for Greek yogurt and cottage cheese and ended up with an oversupply. Chocolate chip cookies hit a record $5.35 a pound in January as flour, cocoa, and eggs all got pricier.

What to watch: "The damage had been done," said Ricky Volpe, an agribusiness professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, since any new inflation lands on top of already very high prices. Overall grocery prices are up on average since Trump returned to office, pushed by labor costs, tariffs, and energy prices driven higher by the war with Iran.

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One famous clip of an alleged forest ape anchors Capturing Bigfoot, a new documentary that cares less about the creature than the normal-sized guys obsessed with the ape.

Fourteen years of Tiny Desk concerts with no speakers or amplification have left producer Bobby Carter with a soft spot for artists who adapt to the space.

From dating shows to police interrogation rooms, the polygraph has long been sold as a way to catch liars in what one historian's book calls an American obsession.

Douglas MacArthur returns to the Philippines (1944) · The House Un-American Activities Committee opens hearings into Hollywood (1947) · Tolkien's The Return of the King is published in London (1955) · Archibald Cox is fired in the Saturday Night Massacre (1973) · A plane crash in Mississippi kills three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd (1977)

"I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil." — Douglas MacArthur, 1944

That's all for today. Thanks for spending a few minutes with us. See you tomorrow with more stories worth knowing.

—The Five Minute Daily Team