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Tech Company Meadow will pay up to $17.1 billion to settle a lawsuit with 47 states
Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories concerning the operation of Facebook and its Instagram platforms. Colorado's Attorney General Phil Weisner argued on behalf of states that Meadow knowingly designed its platforms to be addictive to children while hiding the harms that 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.
Much of the money in this settlement will be used for educational and mental health programs.
Senator Richard Blumenthal says he hopes that the House of Representatives will approve
his sanctions bill against Russia next month.
“NPR's Paulina Letyniana reports from key that Blumenthal also got a request from Ukraine's”
President Vladimir Zelensky on the needs that his country is seeking. Senator Blumenthal says making sure Ukraine gets intercepted measles it needs to defend itself from Russian ballistic missile attacks is part of what he calls his home work. A loan with Advocate and for letting Ukraine use Starlink on Russia's territory. Talking to reporters and key of Blumenthal said he hoped that CIA director John Radcliffe
used his recent trip to Moscow to warn Russian President Vladimir Putin against a possible escalation in the war with Ukraine. "I'm hoping hopeful that very hopeful that the message was, don't do it, forget about it." President Zelensky has said he believes Russia is preparing to mobilize an additional 300,000 troops.
"Polina Letynaba and Bjergnews, Greuv." Two weeks after a severe storm caused widespread power outages in Northwest Indiana, the local utility company says the restoration efforts are mostly complete. Barbangiano reports some residents still are still upset.
“Nipsko announced on their website Wednesday crews would continue working through individual”
outage cases. James Isyn is a contractor and lives in Hobart, Indiana. He says his neighbor still doesn't have electricity due to damage from trees. Isyn says he's frustrated with a lack of urgency on Nipsko's part. "There's still a lot about it.
Yeah, and you can see that. There's still people still hurting, and that makes no sense to me." Nipsko currently faces a class action lawsuit alleging the utility failed to manage vegetation as well as conduct adequate inspections of utility poles and power lines. Indiana Governor Mike Braun has asked Indiana's utility watchdog to seek an investigation
into Nipsko. For NPR News, I'm Barbangiano and Gary." On Wall Street Wednesday, all three stock indexes were down. This is NPR.
“Flash flooding along the border between China and Nepal has left an estimated 160 people”
dead. Hundreds of others are reported missing. Experts say an avalanche from a glacier is the likely cause in the warming Himmelay a mountain region. The US geological survey first reported the incident is an earthquake, but later said the 5.2 event was actually a landslide.
The Japanese artist, Jacocca Sama, has died, nicknamed the Princess of Pokeda Dots, her work was shown at major museums and galleries around the world. She was 97. NPR's Elizabeth Breyer has this appreciation. Jacocca Sama put Pokeda Dots on everything, clothing, paintings, giant pumpkin sculptures.
She once wrote, "Our Earth is only one Pokeda, among a million stars in the cosmos."
She was also obsessed with the concept of infinity. Her infinity rooms have floor to ceiling mirrors and twinkling lights that seem to go on forever. Jacocca Sama grew up in Matsumoto City. She suffered from mental illness and hallucinations. As a little girl, she would draw the
visions and sketchbooks to, as she put it, help ease the shock and fear. Jacocca Sama moved to New York and thrived in the city's avalanche garden scene. In the last years of her life, Jacocca Sama lived in a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo. She continued to create art in a studio nearby. Elizabeth Blair and PR news. NFL owners have approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks $9.6 billion.
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