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Tech company Mehta will pay up to $17.1 billion to settle the lawsuit with 47 states
“Washington DC and US territories concerning the operation of the Facebook and Instagram platforms.”
It's part of a landmark legal settlement that ended a trial over teenage social media addiction. How the Rotto's attorney general Phil Wiser argued on behalf of the states that met a knowingly designed its platforms to be addictive to children while hardening, hiding the harm they cause. The pain that I have felt hearing about kids and families were, they weren't sleeping at night
because they got notifications and alerts all through the night. They were distracted the school day, spending an hour or more on their phones responding to social media when they should be focusing on school. Meta will also be required to put in numerous protections for young people under age 18.
If the agreement is approved by a federal judge, it will stop a number of lawsuits filed
by the states against Meta, however, individuals and school districts across the country could continue the suits, much of the money in the settlement will be used for educational and mental health programs.
“Researcher Missing in at least 160 are dead after flooding in Nepal, as NPR's Julia”
Simon reports scientists say glaciers in the region are more at risk because of global warming. According to initial assessments, a giant chunk of ice snapped off a glacier and tumble thousands of feet into a river valley below, a fast moving mix of water, ice and rock pulverized everything in its path. Thousands of people live in villages downstream from the glacier.
Across the mountains of Nepal and Tibet, climate change is causing glaciers to melt at
an alarming rate and the danger is growing.
Millions of people are at risk from these unstable glaciers as the earth heats up, the main driver of climate change is human's burning planet heating oil, gas and coal. NPR's Julia Simon, Ohio immigrant advocates are warning the US just to test this department could run against a Franklin County court. A Franklin County Municipal Court ruled adopted in March prohibits agencies like ice from
arresting undocumented immigrants without a warrant.
“The DOJ argues this rule violates the federal government authority over local government.”
Lynch Romante with the Ohio immigrant alliance says without this rule immigrants would fear showing up for traffic court or as witnesses in criminal trials. She says this is part of a wider immigration strategy by the Trump administration. In the mornings, ice agents go to McDonald's and gas stations hunting for people were definitely stealing the effects of the huge budget that Congress has given ice.
Ice agents arrested at least 12 people at the court before the rule was put in place. And you're listening to NPR. A judge in Maryland is blocking for now a proposed state constitutional amendment from being presented to voters in November that would have allowed the state's congressional districts to be rejoined.
The judge wrote the amendment cannot appear on the November ballot but he paused the ruling while Democrats appealed the decision to the state's highest court. Democrats in Maryland control seven of the eight congressional districts, but they said they wanted to redraw the lines to get one additional seat after some Republicans and other states redrew their congressional lines.
There's evidence that the vaccine currently used to prevent the disease single may also reduce the risk of heart disease NPR's Rob Stein reports. A growing body of evidence suggests that the vaccine, called Schingrex, may have benefits beyond preventing shingles, a painful condition caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox.
Previous studies found the vaccine may reduce the risk for heart disease and dementia and perhaps even slow some aspects of aging. In the new study, US and British researchers studied more than 72,000 people who received either Schingrex or another Schingrex vaccine. In the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers report that those who got Schingrex appear
to be 9% less likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. The researchers stressed that more research is needed to find out how the vaccine may have that added benefit. All three stock indexes closed lower on Wednesday to dial the NASDAQ in the SNP. This is NPR.
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