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SANTA FE, N.M. β Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation of New Mexicoβs consumer protection laws, a state prosecutor said Monday as a trial began over the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. Itβs the first stand-alone trial from state…
LOS ANGELES β Sean Astin has taken on the presidency of the SAG-AFTRA at a particularly perilous time for the actors union, and for Hollywood. There’s the threat of human actors being replaced by artificial intelligence. The ongoing upheavals of streaming. Studio consolidation and realignment. Nearly three years ago, the actors launched a four-month strike,…
LOS ANGELES β Sean Astin has taken on the presidency of the SAG-AFTRA at a particularly perilous time for the actors union, and for Hollywood. There’s the threat of human actors being replaced by artificial intelligence. The ongoing upheavals of streaming. Studio consolidation and realignment. Nearly three years ago, the actors launched a four-month strike,…
EDINBURG, Texas β The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…
EDINBURG, Texas β The first center for dispersing sterile screwworm flies from U.S. soil in decades opened Monday in Texas, part of a larger effort to keep the flesh-eating parasite they spawn from crossing the Mexican border and wreaking havoc on the American cattle industry. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott…
NEW YORK β During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, experts worried that disruptions to cancer diagnosis and treatment would cost lives. A new study suggests they were right. The federally funded study published Thursday by the medical journal JAMA Oncology is being called the first to assess the effects of pandemic-related disruptions on…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors. The agency announced Thursday that food labels may claim to have βno artificial colorsβ when they are free of petroleum-based dyes, even when they contain dyes derived from natural sources such as plants….
LONDON β The European Union on Friday accused TikTok of breaching the bloc’s digital rules with βaddictive designβ features that lead to compulsive use by children, in preliminary charges that strike at the heart of the popular video sharing app’s operating model. EU regulators said their two-year investigation found that TikTok hasn’t done enough to…
NEW YORK β U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been reported through birth certificates, or about 24,000 fewer than in 2024. The decline seems to confirm predictions by some experts, who doubted a slight increase in births in 2024 marked the start…
A federal jury this week found Uber to be legally responsible in a 2023 case of sexual assault β ordering the rideshare giant to pay $8.5 million to a woman who said one of its drivers raped her during a trip using the platform. The verdict, reached Thursday in Arizona, follows years of criticism against…
