Nineteen-year-old Gigi Painter hopes Facebook’s planned “Instagram Kids” never becomes a reality.
Growing up in a small Ohio town, Painter said she and most of her friends created Instagram accounts by lying about their ages years before they turned 13.
She recalls constant pressure to post good photos that would garner...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday will consider whether Texas can leave a law that bans most abortions and sent pro-abortion leftists into a tizzy since being passed last month.
A lawsuit filed by the Biden administration seeks to land the first legal blow against the Texas law known...
President Joe Biden's popularity has slumped after a slew of failures in recent weeks at home and abroad, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Even sympathetic media and polling outlets are now being forced to acknowledge that the leader who pledged to...
(The Conversation) The Supreme Court begins its annual term on Oct. 4, with a packed agenda highlighted by three cases alleging violations of constitutional rights.
One is about religious rights.
A second is about gun rights.
And the biggest case this year is a challenge to abortion laws.
Several states are asking the...
(Headline USA) Merck & Co. said Friday that its experimental COVID-19 pill reduced hospitalizations and deaths by half in people recently infected with the coronavirus and that it would soon ask health officials in the U.S. and around the world to authorize its use.
If cleared, Merck's drug would be...
(Headline USA) Facing bipartisan criticism over its approach to immigration, the Biden administration on Thursday announced new rules that require authorities to pursue only migrants who recently crossed into the country without permission or are deemed to pose a threat to public safety.
The move effectively neutralizes the entire Immigration...
(Headline USA) Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he has directed the lifting of the ban on Twitter’s operations in Nigeria but only if certain conditions are met including Twitter’s “positive” use and registration in the West African nation.
Buhari told the country of more than 200 million people in an...
(Headline USA) A conservative Roman Catholic media outlet seeking to stage a rally during a U.S. bishops' meeting in Baltimore said left-wing city officials canceled the event because they disapproved of its religious message.
The city claimed the gathering posed a threat to public safety, accusing the group of cheering...
(Headline USA) With President Joe Biden's government overhaul at risk, Democrats confronted high-stakes trouble Thursday as a promised vote on the first piece, a slimmer $1 trillion public works bill, faltered amid stalled talks on his more ambitious package.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was meeting privately with factions of...
(Associated Press) Congress took a big step toward avoiding a partial federal shutdown on Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to keep the government funded through Dec. 3.
The House was expected to follow suit shortly.
The votes will help avert one crisis, but only delay another as the political parties...
(Headline USA) A group representing school board members around the country asked President Joe Biden on Thursday for federal assistance to investigate and stop "threats" made over policies including mask mandates, likening alleged vitriol to a form of domestic terrorism.
Parents and community members have been disrupting meetings and threatening board...
(Associated Press) Facing outrage over its handling of internal research on harm to teens from Instagram, a Facebook executive is telling Congress that the company is working to protect young people on its platforms.
And she disputes the way a recent newspaper story describes what the research shows.
“We have put in...