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Social media giant meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion to $47 in Washington D.C. to settle
a child's safety trial.
“Colorado Democratic Attorney General Phil Wicer was part of the bipartisan coalition”
of states, arguing that meta, knowingly designed its platforms to be addictive to children while hiding the harms they cause. We're going to now put in effective age assurance and effective protections so that underage kids are not getting on the platform and there's going to be an auditor who's going to oversee the conduct of the company and we're going to hold them to account.
We're going to make sure they follow these rules. This is going to be a game changer. If approved by the court, meta will make payments to states over 10 years and makes significant changes to how its platforms operate so that they are safer for miners.
In Southern Arizona, tribal leaders say the federal government has deployed armed agents
and a push to begin borderwall construction on tribal property from Arizona Public Media Angela Jervasi reports. The Trump administration is planning a 62-mile border wall across the Thono off the nation. Something to try vehemently opposes.
“This week, Chairman Verlan Jose told reporters the tribe has escorted about half a dozen contractors”
off the reservation to stay off construction. We want to let this enjoy our sacred sites, our burial sites, our holy places. Then on Tuesday, the tribe leader announced that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent about 20 armed and masked agents along with the SWAT team onto the nation to help conduct pre-construction activities.
For MPR News, I'm Angela Jervasi in Ahoe, Arizona. The federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite an ICE officer who's charged with shooting a man in Minneapolis. Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime. Minnesota officials believe Castro could flee to Mexico.
He's accused of shooting a man in the leg and falsely accusing him in another man of attacking an ICE officer. The nation's top health official is urging people to get their shots after two people died in Pennsylvania this week after contracting measles.
“From member station W. U.S.F. Kerry shared and reports health secretary Robert F. Kennedy”
Jr. is raising questions about the cases. Kennedy stopped in Tampa to talk about making school lunch food healthier.
At a press conference, he was asked about the first reported deadly measles cases in the
U.S. this year in Pennsylvania. "All right, if I say that people should get the measles vaccination, there are certain communities and certain religious communities that don't want to do that and we want to take care of those kids as well." Few details have emerged about the people who died in Lancaster County.
Kennedy accused the Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, of refusing to share information with federal health authorities. For NPR News, I'm Kerry Sheridan in Tampa. Major U.S. stock indexes closed down slightly today after reports said inflation last month. Slightly worse than economists expected in NPR.
Chicago's professional women's basketball team is testing a new approach to counter abuse that its players are receiving. This sky has partnered with two organizations in the national security space that focus on terrorism, and violent extremism, NPR's Odette Euseff reports. WNBAs the Chicago sky has contracted with Moonshot to monitor online threats and abuse against
sky players. The sky has also partnered with Parallel. The polarization and extremism research and innovation lab at American University. Parallel developed a campaign called "Be the Sixth Player" to help the public push back against misogyny.
Charles Cynthia Miller Idris says misogyny is linked to numerous forms of public violence. "It's one of the biggest common denominators in gang violence, in stalking harassment of athletes and in school shootings, terrorism and targeted violence." The increasingly popular WNBAs has become a target of culture warriors seeking to inflame divisions over race, trans rights and women's rights, Odette Euseff and PR news.
Tim Curry has died. He was a beloved actor known for creating "delectable" characters for stage and screen often eccentric villains. His most iconic role might have been Dr. Frank Inferter in the Rocky Horror Picture Show was still a cultural touchstone more than 50 years after its debut.
Curry suffered a stroke in 2012 that put him in a wheelchair. He earned three Tony nominations in an Emmy nod in 1994, Tim Curry was 80 years old. "Cent PR!" Hey, you know that nagging voice in your head, the one telling you to put the phone down and stop doomsgrowing while it's time.
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