The Senate parliamentarian told Democrats on Wednesday that their newest proposal for helping millions of illegal immigrants stay in the U.S. permanently could not be included in their $3.5 trillion spending bill. It’s the Democratic Party’s latest setback in a string of losses in recent months. [STUDY] They lost 23… Read More
Skeptics united vs Big Tech over Instagram’s health effects
Political adversaries in Congress are united in outrage against Facebook for privately compiling information that its Instagram photo-sharing service appears to grievously harm some teens, especially girls, while publicly downplaying the popular platform’s negative impact. Mounting public pressure over the revelations have prompted Facebook to put on hold its work… Read More
Dem senator still faces 5 charges in $600,000 theft case
A Tennessee state senator charged with stealing $600,000 in federal grant money from a health care school she operated has been acquitted on 15 of 20 charges, according to court records. U.S. District Court Judge Sheryl Lipman filed the order Sunday after lawyers for Sen. Katrina Robinson filed a motion… Read More
YouTube silences controversial vaccine claims
YouTube has banned all controversial vaccine information from its popular video-sharing platform. The website will retroactively wipe existing videos that promote claims outside the mainstream scientific consensus. The ban on vaccine misinformation, announced in a blog post on Wednesday, comes as countries around the world continue to offer free immunizations… Read More
Danish artist makes off with pile of cash intended to be art
A Danish artist who was was given a pile of money by a museum with which to create a piece of artwork, submitted two empty canvases — titled “Take the Money and Run.” Jens Haaning was given the equivalent of nearly $84,000 in Danish kroner and euro bank notes by… Read More
Free Britney! Spears may get freedom soon
Judge Brenda Penny has been the calm eye of the storm surrounding Britney Spears and the conservatorship that controls her life. Now all eyes are on her. The Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has thus far been able to act more as a caretaker than a dictator in the case,… Read More
Japan picked a new prime minister…
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida won the governing party’s leadership election on Wednesday and is set to become the next prime minister, facing the tasks of reviving a pandemic-hit economy and ensuring a strong alliance with Washington to counter growing regional security risks. Kishida replaces outgoing party leader Prime… Read More
Housing market so hot, burned house going for almost $400K
A home in Massachusetts seriously damaged by fire has been listed on the market with an asking price of $399,000. WBZ-TV reported Monday that the listing for the home in Melrose, a suburb of Boston, is evidence of how hot the housing market is. New Formula Starts Relieving Pain On… Read More
Disney World opened 50 years ago; these workers never left
Applying to be one of the first workers at Walt Disney World, high school graduate George Kalogridis made a split-second decision that set the course for his life: he picked a room where prospective hotel workers were being hired. Chuck Milam got a tip about a job opening from a… Read More
Facebook is holding off on ‘Instagram for kids’ due to these concerns
Bowing — perhaps only for a moment — to pressure from lawmakers, critics, the media and child development experts, Facebook said Monday it will “pause” its work on a kids’ version of its photo and video-oriented Instagram app. But what’s not yet clear is just how seriously Facebook is taking… Read More
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