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A consortium of states is taking met at a court in California today in a landmark case.
“They accuse the tech giant of designing at social media platforms, including Instagram and”
Facebook in a way that can get children and teenagers addicted. Here's NPR's John Ruich. California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey are leading the case. They say features like infinite scroll and the like button were designed to keep people on Facebook and Instagram longer and new, but did not admit publicly that they helped hook kids.
The states also say Meta broke a federal online child protection law by collecting data on kids under 13 without parental consent. Meta denies the allegations and says it's put in place a number of features to make its products safe for minors. Some legal experts compare the case and a string of similar ones to trials in the 90s against
tobacco companies that led to big penalties and changed the public narrative around cigarettes. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is a financial supporter of NPR. John Ruich and PR news. Disney is suing the federal communications commission and defense of its ABC stations.
The Walt Disney Company accuses the administration of violating its first amendment rights
“by carrying out an early license review of ABC stations and investigating the talk show of the”
view. FCC Chief Brendan Carr, who launched the formal review years ahead of schedule, has said that he is upholding requirements that broadcasters operate in the public interest. Alaska is one of three states holding primary contests today. One includes a race between candidates who share the same name, Dan Sullivan.
Alaska Public Media's Eric Stone has to tell. Alaska's Senate race has been the subject of millions in campaign spending and could decide control of the chamber to turn Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is facing off against Democrat Mary Peltole. They are all but guaranteed to take the top two spots at Alaska's nonpartisan top four
primary ahead of the ranked choice general election in November.
But the race for the third and fourth spots is Mercury.
I had to the primary superpacks on both sides of spent millions to elevate marginal candidates. The race also features a teacher who shares the incumbent Sullivan's first and last name. A move of some Republicans, including President Trump, say, was meant to confuse voters. Voters will also narrow a 17 candidate field in the race to be Alaska's next governor. For NPR News, I'm Eric Stone in Juneau.
If the severe floods in Indiana and Ohio over the last week or any indication, extreme rainfall is happening more often in the Midwest. NPR is lower in summer reports. Storms in the Midwest are getting stormier, you could say. The most extreme storms in the Great Lakes region are now dropping 45% more rain than
they did back in the 1950s, according to the National Climate Assessment. That's due in large part because of climate change. A warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, which leads to more rainfall in big storms hit. That trend is expected to continue as the climate keeps warming.
The federal government is now updating rainfall record to nationwide. That's NPR's Lauren Summer reporting. You're listening to NPR News. The share of U.S. children in kindergarten who got exemptions from school vaccination requirements rose to another record high last year, and kindergarten vaccination rates fell again.
NPR's Rob Stein reports a new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says that the percentage of children in kindergarten with vaccination exemptions increased from 3.6% to a record 4.2% for the 2025-2026 school year. The changing rate comes as the Trump administration has been trying to cut the number of vaccines children routinely get.
And childhood diseases like measles and wooping cloth have been researching. Rob Stein and Pyrnese. Pyrnese and college graduates are struggling to land entry-level jobs. Lee Gaines reports a lot of the blame is landing on AI. Irene Chang graduated from Georgia Tech this past spring with an engineering degree.
“I think I've applied to around 450 applications now.”
Still no offers. She thinks AI might be part of the reason. Economists don't all agree. Stanford University researchers found employment declined for younger workers and jobs that AI can more easily automate.
In Harvard University economists David Deming isn't convinced. He points to the rise in remote work since the pandemic. He says employers are less likely to hire entry-level workers for remote positions. Still he thinks AI will impact jobs at some point. It's going to be very bumpy and messy and you know, book a lot.
For NPR News, I'm Lee Gaines. This is NPR News. This week on Sharp Wave, you are what you eat. It may not be a phrase you associate with your mental health, but one in three people have insulin resistance in our country.
And if you have insulin resistance, you are double the likelihood of developing major depression. We explore the link between your body and your brain.
