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$400 million to settle litigation brought by the Department of Justice in 2024, and
“Pierce John Roach reports the company was accused of failing to protect children's privacy”
online. The Department of Justice had alleged that Tiktok collected, stored and processed vast amounts of data from its users, including millions of American children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. The Department of Justice says since the complaint was filed, Tiktok has undergone significant
changes to aspects of its business, including ownership and management. The Trump administration broke her to deal for a U.S. version of Tiktok to be spun off from its Chinese owner by dance earlier this year, and put in the hands of American investors. The Department of Justice says Tiktok has since implemented extensive measures to strengthen safeguards for young users, John Roach and PR news.
A military source tells NPR that the Navy is considering renaming an aircraft carrier under construction for President Trump, and Pierce Quill Lawrence reports it was supposed to be named for Black World War II Hero Doris Miller.
“In 1941, Doris or Dori Miller was working in the mess hall of a ship under attack in Pearl”
Harbor. He dragged the wounded to safety, and then down two Japanese planes with an anti-aircraft
gun he'd never been trained to fire.
He died at war two years later. When Miller died in a line of duty at age 24, he's the first Black man to receive the Navy Cross. Kyle Bibi with the Black Veterans Project is outraged by reports that the aircraft carrier might be named for President Trump instead of Miller.
The Navy should be focusing on supporting current sailors serving and fighting in this war rather than finding ways to honor the politicians who actually started this war. A spokesman told NPR that the Navy has no announcement at this time. Quill Lawrence and PR news. Black cameras, the automated license plate readers' police use to track vehicles or face
“and growing resistance, as NPR's Meg Anderson reports some people are vandalizing them.”
"Flock cameras capture billions of license plates every month.
Police leaders say that has helped them find stolen vehicles and missing people. But legal experts say the technology raises privacy concerns. Now, some people are taking matters into their own hands. According to an NPR review, "Flock cameras have been vandalized or stolen in at least 36 states. Garrett Langley is the CEO of Flock."
"These are people being amped up to go do something, and I don't think that they're being given the level of information they should, but they're also committing a felony." Langley says if people have concerns, they should take it up with their city council. And many people have. According to the advocacy group, D.Flock, at least 100 cities, have deactivated the cameras
or canceled their contracts. Meg Anderson and PR news. Major U.S. stock indexes rose today, trimming their losses from earlier this week. It's NPR. The U.S. has deported nearly 2300 Mexicans to Guatemala this year, until now Mexicans
deported from the U.S. where mostly sent back to Mexico, immigration lawyers believe that the Trump administration is using deportations to 3rd countries as a legal loophole. The government can't directly send asylum seekers back to Mexico because it would violate court orders from immigration judges that recognize the dangers. The rate of adults dying from alcohol use in the U.S. has gone up in the past decade according
to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics, and PR's ping pong reports. For adults 45 and older, the rate of alcohol induced deaths has increased by about 30% since 2014. It's up for both men and women, though deaths from alcohol are around 2 1/2 times higher in men. The rate is down from a peak in 2021, during the COVID pandemic, but remains higher than
it was pre-pendemic. The data is published in the CDC's morbidity and mortality weekly report. Past CDC publications found some 2/3 of alcohol-related deaths come from the impacts of drinking over time, such as alcohol use disorder, heart, and liver diseases. The remaining 3rd died after drinking too much at once, which can cause things like alcohol poisoning.
The agency recommends that those who drink drink moderately and help others do the same, and that they seek help for substance abuse if they're concerned. Ping Huang and PR news. FIFA issued suspensions to 3 Argentinian soccer players for brawling with Spanish opponents after last month's World Cup final, one Argentina coach and one Spanish player were
also suspended. This is NPR News from Washington. This week on the MPR Politics podcast, the Trump administration is taking credit for a major drop in violent crime, murder, robbery, assault, all-down in big cities and small towns. We're going to dig into the numbers and unpack whether this is really as simple as the
President claims it is on the MPR Politics podcast, listen on the MPR app or wherever
