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A California jury finds meta and Google are to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman
“who compulsively use social media as a small child, awarding her $3 million in a rare verdict”
holding Silicon Valley accountable for its role in fueling a youth mental health crisis. The jury also decided that meta and Google's actions should trigger punitive damages, which means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi-trillion dollar companies for their conduct.
TSA staffing shortage at major airports in the U.S. is growing more severe the result of a political fight over DHS funding, and Piers Barbara Sprint with the latest. Senate Republicans sent Democrats another potential deal yesterday, but top Democrats said it didn't have the significant reforms that they want to see. What's new is a potential to fund DHS minus ISIS detention and deportation operations,
and this would allow the rest of the department to get funded, including those TSA officers currently working without pay. Barbara Sprint reporting, Kuwait, says a drone hit a fuel tank at its international airport overnight, causing a large explosion and fire that airport and others in the region have
“been attacked multiple times by Iranian drones in the war, and Piers A.A. Batrawi reports.”
In addition to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia says that intercepted more missiles and drones overnight targeting its oil-rich eastern region with debris falling on homes there. The UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk says U.S. and Israeli attacks are hitting homes, hospitals, schools, and cultural sites in Iran. He also says Iranian attacks are striking energy and water infrastructure in Gulf Arab countries.
Many of the strikes in this conflict raised serious concerns on the international role, which prohibits attacks, targeting civilians, and the infrastructure. And he says the UN assesses the war has already caused some $63 billion in economic losses across the Arab region. A.A. Batrawi, and Piers News, Dubai.
The Missouri Supreme Court's upholding a new congressional map designed to net Republicans another house seat in the midterms, here's St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum. The State's High Court ruled for three that, even though there's no explicit authorization for mid-decade redistricting, there's no explicit prohibition either. CHEOP Attorney General Catherine Hanaway says that's a clear win for Republican backers
of the redistricting plan. "The map can be redrawn mid-decade." Attorney Chuck Hatfield represented redistricting opponents in court.
He noted the new map could be subject to a referendum this year and may never go into
a fact. "This was a battle in a bigger war. It was a major battle." Missouri was one of several GOP-led states that re-drew their congressional maps to favor Republicans at the behest of President Trump.
It's like California responded by redrawing their lines to help Democrats. That's Jason Rosenbaum reporting. It's NPR News. Today's show host, Savannah Guthrie's opening up about the agony she says her family's been enduring daily since her 84-year-old mother went missing from her Arizona home more
than seven weeks ago. In an interview with her colleague, Otakot-B, a portion of which was previewed today, Guthrie tearfully asks anyone with information about the disappearance of step forward.
This is the host's first interview since her mother Nancy Wentmissing.
Investigators say Nancy Guthrie might have been kidnapped. The clues remain scarce. Kidnappings for ransom are relatively rare in the U.S. and numbers are not tracked by the Justice Department, but the Guthrie case has brought attention to the matter. A network of families that has helped scientists understand Alzheimer's disease is facing an
uncertain future. NPR's John Hamilton explains. The family's carry very rare gene mutations that cause Alzheimer's to appear in Middle Age. For nearly two decades, the National Institutes of Health has funded research on these
families through a group called the "Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network." Dr. Tammy Benzinger of Washoe Medicine says it's unclear whether that will continue amid cuts in research by the Trump administration. The network that's been built up without funding all of that would fall apart.
In 2025, the NIH rejected a grand application that would have brought about $13 million
in the first year. Instead, the network got about $8 million and no money for international sites which account for about half of its families. The current funding is scheduled to run out on June 30th, John Hamilton and PR News. The Dow is up 354 points.
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