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to pay up to $18 billion to $47 in Washington DC 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 make significant changes to how its platforms operate so they are safer for miners. A federal judge has lifted a major obstacle to President Trump's executive order, a limiting
mail voting, but Democratic state officials are already filing a new lawsuit. It's unclear if the order will be in effect for November's midterm elections, Trump's order directs the postal service to send mail ballots only to those on a list of eligible voters.
“In remarks to the UN Security Council, a representative for President Trump's board of”
peace criticized Israel for strikes on Gaza and Pierce Michelle Kalman reports. The board of peace, high representative for Gaza, Nikolai Mladenoff, says Hamas has agreed to hand over its weapons and he calls this an opportunity to dramatically improve life for Palestinians in Gaza. But he says this will take time and he questions, Israel's continued deadly strikes in
Gaza. Will another strike on a munitions depot stop Hamas from rhyming or tightening its grip on Gaza? It will not. It only delays the demilitarization.
Mladenoff is also urging Israel to change its policies to let more supplies into Gaza in order to build needed housing ahead of winter and restore water services. Michelle Kalman and PR News, Washington. The Kennedy Center board is threatening to tear down the arts complex in Washington DC if their renovation plan is not approved by a judge and Pierce on associate silkest reports.
A turnies in the DOJ civil division made the comments as part of the lawsuit filed by represent Joy Spadey, Democrat of Ohio. The board's lawyers argued the Kennedy Center is in a "financial and structural death spiral already," adding quote, "the center will deteriorate further into an unsafe decrepit structure that will be required to be taken down with a determination to follow on what to build on
the site."
The board wants to spend at least $250 million on a two-year renovation.
They also want to put President Trump's name in three locations of the center, including twice on its main entryway. Kennedy is asking the court to block Trump's name from going back up, an emergency hearing is set for Thursday, on a saysied silcus and PR News. Major U.S. stock indexes closed down slightly today.
This is NPR. A federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite an ice officer who's charged with shooting a man in Minneapolis. Christian Castro has charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely reporting a crime. Minnesota officials believe Castro could flee to Mexico, Castro is accused of shooting a man
in the leg and falsely accusing him in another man of attacking an ice officer. Microsoft founder Bill Gates is calling for radical changes in the way the world manages AI, as NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports he wants new regulations and taxes on the technology. In an essay posted to his personal website, Gates called for governments around the world to take action now before jobs are lost and public trust is undermined.
There's no plan to ease the entry into the AI era and not even a plan to have a plan. Gates called for new domestic and international bodies to manage the risks of AI. He also called for taxing AI algorithms doing human work to slow the transition to automation. Finally he called for some jobs to be off limits to AI, such human reserve jobs and areas like health care and education he argued would prevent artificial intelligence
from gobbling up too much of humanity's humanity, Jeff Brumfield and PR news. Paris has opened its first shop devoted entirely to butter in a country that eats around 18 pounds per person a year yet has one of the EU's lowest obesity rates. Lay butter shop is around 30 varieties from small producers with varieties ranging from salted sea salt flake and seaweed to raspberry vanilla and chocolate.
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