, this is not surprising, but unfortunate. With the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) to be debated in a Congressional hearing on Thursday, the White House had President Joe Biden come out and give a full throated endorsement of the horrible, dangerous, bill that will damage privacy and harm children. We’ve got to hold — we’ve got to hold these platforms accountable for the national experiment they’re conducting on — on our children for profit. Later this week, senators will debate legislation to protect kids’ privacy online, which I’ve been calling for for two years. It matters. Pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it, pass it. I really mean it. Think about it. Do you ever get a chance to look at what your kids are looking at online? But that’s not even remotely close to accurate about anything. Remember, the Republicans have been quite vocal about how they support KOSA because they know they can use it to suppress LGBTQ voices. They flat out said that they believe that “keeping trans content away from children is protecting kids.”

One person died as fire took hold of the ship as it burned off the Dutch island of Ameland.

A collapse of Amoc would have disastrous consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and west Africa. It would increase storms and drop temperatures in Europe, and lead to a rising sea level on the eastern coast of North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis told OutKick that Disney's Florida-based employees sided with his government's position amid its feud with the company over parents' rights in education.

U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's proposed deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax charges and avoid a gun charge hit a snag on Wednesday when the judge in the case said she needed more time to review their agreement.

A former Air Force intelligence officer has testified that the U.S. is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects.

A few minutes later, the Senate minority leader walked back to the news conference by himself.

Two sisters and a teenage son moved to a Colorado campsite last July, living off canned food. They had wanted to take a break from a world that distressed them, a local coroner said.

Multiple injuries have been reported after a crane caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, officials said

The viral TikTok "perpetual stew" has been cooking for over a month and is drawing hungry crowds of soup lovers from near and far.

Sherrie Curry walked past an unused library at Shadydale Elementary School each day for years, watching books collect dust on the shelves. It bothered the teacher enough that she went back to school to earn a master's degree in library science and spent the next four years rejuvenating the library with hundreds of new books purchased through grants, STEM activities and bean bag chairs placed among seasonal decorations. Curry sang and danced anytime boxes of new books arrived, hoping they would help cultivate in her students the passion for reading that has helped her navigate life since her own childhood. When she left the role this spring, burned out from juggling extra responsibilities, Curry knew she was leaving the library in good shape. The book check-out rate had more than tripled under her watch, she said, with students cramming books into their backpacks to carry home. She left a welcome note for the next librarian and hoped her successor would keep building on her years-long push to instill among students a strong reading culture. Instead, Curry was crushed this summer to learn that her former students and scores more Black and Hispanic children attending school in northeast Houston will return next month to campuses with no librarians or even libraries.

Part of the old sign was taken down before San Francisco police interrupted the work to see whether there was a permit to close a lane of traffic, NBC Bay Area reported.

On Saturday, @desantiscams, an anonymous pro-DeSantis account followed by several of his campaign aides, tweeted out a video bashing former President Trump for not building a border wall and for promoting the COVID-19 vaccine. The video hyped up DeSantis to the tune of Kate Bush's "Running up that Hill (A Deal with God)," and ended with an image of DeSantis in the center of Florida's state seal — which then morphs into a rotating Sonnenrad.

Republicans and Democrats are joining forces to stop people from voting against the massive police facility.

Fourteen months after St. Luke’s hospital filed a defamation lawsuit against Ammon Bundy and another far-right activist — neither of whom ever came to court — the case has reached a conclusion. The 12 jurors deciding damages in the civil action filed back into the courtroom early Monday evening to announce what Bundy, close associate Diego Rodriguez and their various entities would be ordered to pay the health system and other plaintiffs. The verdict: a total of $26.5 million in compensatory damages and $26 million in punitive damages. The $500,000 extra in the compensatory category came as a result of the jury’s finding that violations of the Idaho Charitable Solicitation Act by Rodriguez and his Freedom Man Press business had harmed the plaintiffs. Bundy and Rodriguez led protests at the St. Luke’s hospitals in Meridian and downtown Boise in March 2022 over a child welfare case involving Rodriguez’s 10-month-old grandchild. The lawsuit named as defendants both men, Bundy’s People’s Rights Network, Bundy’s campaign for governor, and Rodriguez’s Freedom Man website and political action committee. The suit said the defendants then posted multiple lies online about the hospital system, its employees and the reasons the baby was taken into custody. Over the past two weeks, St. Luke’s laid out in court via witness testimony and displays the volume of material that had been circulated by the defendants.

Survivors hope a new inquiry will give a definitive explanation of why the ship went down in 1994.

The 2018 war game envisioned a “Zbellion” by a tech-savvy generation that no longer believed in the American dream.

July 24 (Reuters) - Billionaire Elon Musk's decision to rebrand Twitter as X could be complicated legally: companies including Meta (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) already have intellectual property rights to the same letter. X is so widely used and cited in trademarks that it is a candidate for legal challenges - and the company formerly known as Twitter could face its own issues defending its X brand in the future. "There's a 100% chance that Twitter is going to get sued over this by somebody," said trademark attorney Josh Gerben, who said he counted nearly 900 active U.S. trademark registrations that already cover the letter X in a wide range of industries.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan to deter migration after COVID-era Title 42 restrictions ended in May.

Hollywood executives said writers’ and actors’ strike demands like raising wages and protecting actors’ likenesses from AI was “unrealistic.”