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We've heard from plenty of adults about Meta's landmark child safety agreement. Users under 18 can't be on Facebook or Instagram more than two hours a day. Notifications will be muted during school hours, and Meta will step up its age verification process. But what are kids saying about the prospect of new rules, impures Ava Berger spoke to some
young people to get their take? Today's teenagers are savvy technology users, and they know it. Meta says they're investing in stronger technology to make sure kids are following the AEG and use restrictions. But NPR spoke to teens who said their age group will just find a way around any new restrictions,
because they always have.
13-year-old Sonole Siddaya lives in Washington State. She said there are plenty of work rounds, like changing time zones to avoid screen time limitations.
“But where are the people that are on like know how to use technology the most?”
So it's, they're really, really simple ways to get around this kind of stuff. After all, kids can always go to another app. They have plenty to choose from. Eva Berger and PR News. For the second time, a federal judge has rejected President Trump's attempts to move his
criminal Hush money case to federal court, where his conviction could be vacated. federal appeals court ordered Judge Alvin Houchstein to take a second look at Trump's attempt to move the case to federal court. But the judge says the grounds, Trump is citing art, quote, neither new nor legally sufficient, saying Trump failed to show good cause and diligence.
Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 hush payment to adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels. Trump is appealing that conviction.
“Fedcher Kevin Wars says inflation is too high, and though he didn't give clear indication”
on interest rates and possible hikes, investors, now think the Fed is likely to raise interest rates as early as next month. In his first speech, his Fedcher, to a gathering of economists and central bankers in Jackson Hall, Wyoming today, was says inflation is running above 2% target, and PR Scott Horsley has more.
First did offer his take on the economy, he says the job market looks fairly stable, business investment strong, consumer spending is resilient. The main challenge the Fed chairman sees is prices, which are climbing faster than he and his colleagues would like. Worses today's interest rates do not appear to be putting the brakes on the economy or inflation,
and investors took that as a sign the Fed may have to raise rates as early as next month. And here Scott Horsley reporting, last month three members of the Fed's rate setting committee were pushing for a rate hike, but the central bank held its benchmark rate steady. Wall Street lower by the close, the Dow down 9 points NAS deck down 138, you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
But Rhea College, a small private school in Kentucky, is expanding the costs that it covers for students to include housing, meals, and fees that starts next fall. And here's a listen ad where any reports, it's an attempt to eliminate student loans for its attendees. Breya College has been tuition free since 1892, but this latest move expands coverage
to things outside of classes.
The money to pay for this comes from the school's large endowment of more than $1.8 billion,
along with federal and state grants and student scholarships. Other colleges have made financial offers similar in scope, but for smaller number of students, more than 6 dozen colleges offer low income families a path to a debt-free undergrad experience. Ohio State University is aiming to eliminate all loans from financial aid packages for undergrads by 2031, and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, announced back in 2018, that
it would have placed loans with scholarship grants. Now let's not run here, and pay our news. Tennessee's governor, Bill Lee, is proposing to rename Nashville's airport "Dolly Parton International Airport," parton who died from cancer this week at the age of 80 was born in East Tennessee and maintained ties there throughout her life.
Lee says he spoke to Barton's team this week, and that they're interested in continuing talks about the name change, but that proposed name change could require the airport authority to revisit its naming policy, because current policy says a person has to have been dead two years, or an airport named after them. This is NPR.
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