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Social media companies including Meta have settled the first of many lawsuits brought by hundreds of school districts seeking compensation for costs they say they incurred dealing with harms to children’s mental health from social media addiction. The lawsuit brought by a small, rural Kentucky school district was set to go to trial next month in federal court in Oakland, California. The judge and the parties selected it as a […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Federal judges in Maine and Wisconsin on Thursday dismissed lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Justice seeking to compel the states to hand over detailed voter registration information. U.S. District Judge James Pederson in Wisconsin said the state’s voter registration list is not a record that can be requested under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, as President Donald Trump’s administration argued. In Maine, Chief […]

The former girlfriend of a member of the boy band Why Don’t We has been charged with trying to hire a hitman on the dark web to kill him as part of a custody dispute over their now 7-year-old daughter, prosecutors said. Gabriela Gonzalez, a 24-year-old with a large social media following, was charged Tuesday with one count of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation of murder in […]

Marlins left-handed pitching prospect Robby Snelling will undergo Tommy John surgery on Friday to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, Miami officials said Thursday. Snelling, the club’s No. 2 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, will miss the rest of the season and a chunk of next season that has yet to be determined. He was transferred to the 60-day injured list on Thursday. The Marlins said a […]

Five-star basketball recruit Kameron Mercer announced on Thursday his commitment to play for his hometown Cincinnati Bearcats and also reclassify for the Class of 2027. The 6-foot-5 sophomore wing, who led Princeton High School this past season to an Ohio state championship, plans to graduate a year early and join new Cincinnati coach Jerrod Calhoun. “I’m looking forward to doubling up work and being ready,” Mercer said on a Zoom […]

WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) – Homeland Security Department Secretary Markwayne Mullin privately warned officials could stop processing international travelers and cargo at major U.S. airports in “sanctuary cities” that have declined to cooperate with the Trump administration’s hardline immigration crackdown, sources told Reuters. Mullin, who publicly made the threat in April during a DHS funding dispute, privately told travel executives last week that the department could opt to stop processing […]

May 21 (Reuters) – SpaceX is set to launch the 12th uncrewed test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, the debut of a redesigned vehicle central to Elon Musk’s plans for the moon, Mars and the company’s looming U.S. listing. The Starship system, made up of SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster and Starship upper-stage vehicle, is designed to be fully reusable and is built to carry crew and cargo. The […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian head of a victims’ association for the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris said that justice has yet to be served in France’s worst aviation crash after a Paris appeals court found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter on Thursday. Air France and Airbus, two of France’s most emblematic companies, both said in statements that they would appeal Thursday’s […]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Colorado Democrats voted overwhelmingly to censure one of their own, Gov. Jared Polis, for commuting the prison sentence of Tina Peters, the election conspiracy theorist who amplified President Donald Trump’s baseless claims that mass fraud caused his 2020 election loss. About 90% of the state party’s roughly 700 Central Committee members voted Wednesday for censure. It means that Polis, who is term-limited and serving his […]