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The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court began on Monday. Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube face claims that their platforms deliberately addict…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Saturday’s games.
A renewable energy group founded by the former chief executive of Petrofac, the oilfield services group which collapsed during the autumn, will this week announce a Β£40m fundraising despite signs of growing tension over its leadership. Sky News has learnt that Venterra, which was set up four years ago by Ayman Asfari, will unveil the…
Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first billionaire footballer, according to a report. The Al Nassr and Portugal striker’s net worth has been estimated at $1.4bn (Β£1.04bn) by the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The valuation puts Ronaldo among a small group of billionaire athletes including basketball greats Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and LeBron James, as well…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> An inside look at the Maginot spacecraft in FXβs βAlien: Earth.β (Patrick Brown / FX) For those wondering if theyβll recognize this βPeter Panβ-influenced bit of the βAlienβ universe, well, one of the first choices Hawley had to make was environmental. βAre we doing retro-futurism? Are we doing the the cathode ray tube…
Has the government just walked into a giant political elephant trap by attempting to reverse the Epping hotel ruling? Already on the back foot after a judge ordered the Bell Hotel to be emptied of asylum seekers, the Home Office is now being attacked for trying to appeal that decision. “The government isn’t listening to…
Councillors have given the green light for the introduction of a 7% visitor levy for Aberdeen. The “tourist tax” will not come into force until at least April 2027, but it is expected to generate millions of pounds a year that will be reinvested back into the city. The charge for overnight stays will apply…
In this episode of The Envelope video podcast, Teyana Taylor describes the βslingshotβ of success thatβs come with βOne Battle After Anotherβ and shares her insights as to why fictional revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills does what she does in the film. Kelvin Washington: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The Envelope. Kelvin Washington, Yvonne Villarreal,…
We’re used to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the war leader in his combat fatigues. They were the ones that memorably earned him a dressing down from Donald Trump in the Oval Office last year. But in his third speech to the UK parliament since the Russian invasion four years ago, we saw him suited…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ NASA recaptured the worldβs attention with Artemis II, which took astronauts to the moon and back for the first time in half a century. But the agencyβs scientific projects could again be under threat as the Trump administration makes a renewed push to drastically cut their funding β including at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The…
