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TechGiant Meta has reached a settlement with a coalition of states over allegations that
“Facebook and Instagram harmed young users and misled the public about those risks.”
The case also accused the company of improperly collecting children's personal data.
Under the settlement, Meta will have to pay $17 billion.
The agreement was reached during trial and federal court led by the state of California. Stokes on Wall Street opened a higher this morning as the Commerce Department reported "sticking inflation." NPR Scott Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average was up about 11 points in early trading.
Consumer prices in July were up 3.7 percent from a year ago. According to the Commerce Department's inflation yardstick, which is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve, that's the same annual rate of price hikes as the most months before. Price is rose 2/10 percent between June and July and personal spending rose by a similar
amount.
“Personal income rose a little faster during the months, so people were able to sock a little”
more money away.
The personal savings rate rose to 3 percent, which is the highest it's been since April.
The chipmaker in video is set to report quarterly earnings later today after the market closes, in videos considered a bell weather of the artificial intelligence boom. Scott Horsley in Parenthood is Washington. The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 people who have applied for asylum in the U.S.
NPR Sergio Martinez Beltran has more on the new policy. Tom Pigot, a spokesperson for the State Department, says getting a visa to later seek asylum is fraud, and that's because people applying for a tourist visa have to say why they're coming to the U.S. and the government is arguing that if the person did not tell the immigration officer, they were planning on claiming asylum, they have essentially lied
and that's enough to revoke a visa. NPR Sergio Martinez Beltran President Trump's board of peace is criticizing a recent series of Israeli attacks in Gaza and PR's Daniel Estrin reports. The Israeli military has been blowing up Hamas weapons storage facilities in Gaza and carrying out targeted killings of Palestinians accused of taking part in the October 7th, 2023 attacks
on Israel. The board of peace told Israel, "It opposes striking weapons, depose, because a disrupts efforts for Hamas to hand over weapons." The U.S. backed board also said it objects to Israeli military action in Gaza beyond responding to genuine and imminent threats.
That's according to an official with the board of peace not authorized to speak publicly. In Jerusalem, Israel has seized a facility run by the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has banned from operating in Jerusalem. The move was condemned by the UN's Medi's peace coordinator, Daniel Estrin NPR News, Tel Aviv.
This is NPR News. More than 50 people, linked to organized West African cybercrime groups have been arrested in a multinational operation led by Interpol, and PR's dual-bright reports at total of 22 countries, including the United States, took part in the operation. Interpol says the operation codenamed Operation Jaco 4, ran for 8 months and led to the arrest
of 58 people across six countries. Those arrested were linked to various cybercrimes offences, an official say an additional 263 suspects were identified during the operation and have been investigated. Interpol says the operation was launched in response to the escalating global threats posed by West African criminal networks who target victims of all ages, included minus,
in mostly English-speaking countries. Last year, the FBI worked with the local law enforcement in Nigeria to arrest 22 people who were blackmailing and extorting minus with explicit images of themselves, some of the victims ended up taking their own lives, dual-bright MPR News Lakers. Brazil's data protection agency has fine TikTok pairing company by dance nearly $30 million
over its handling of young users' personal information. Regulators say TikTok collected and processed data from children and teenagers without a valid legal basis or adequate safeguards by dance as the violations cited by regulators date back to 2021 and do not reflect more recent changes to the platform. For listening to NPR News from Washington
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