Ohio social media act would require 16-year-olds to get parental consent before using social media, gaming services (www.wtol.com)
Deep sea mining permits may be coming soon. What are they and what might happen? (apnews.com)
July Fourth hot dog eating contest men's competition won by Joey Chestnut with 62 hot dogs and buns (www.cbsnews.com)
Joey Chestnut wolfed down 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win the men’s competition of the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest for the 16th time Tuesday. The champion eater whose nickname is “Jaws” fell short of the record 76 hot dogs and buns that he set at the Independence Day event in 2021.
FTC sues Amazon for 'tricking and trapping' people in Prime subscription (www.npr.org)
“Federal regulators have sued Amazon, alleging the company for years “tricked” people into buying Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel....
US Judge restricts Biden officials from contact with social media firms (www.reuters.com)
Activists spurred by affirmative action ruling challenge legacy admissions at Harvard (apnews.com)
Gunman shoots multiple people, including child, in Philly, police say (www.nbcphiladelphia.com)
Police said a male shooter was taken into custody and a weapon was recovered.
Austin Fears of Rainey Street serial killer mount as fifth body is pulled from Lady Bird Lake this year in chilling discovery (www.newsbreakapp.com)
Baltimore block party shooting leaves 2 dead and 28 injured, including 3 critically hurt, police say (apnews.com)
There is no trust now': Student loan borrowers respond to Supreme Court decision (www.npr.org)
Austin Fears of Rainey Street serial killer mount as fifth body is pulled from Lady Bird Lake this year in chilling discovery (www.newsbreak.com)
Austin Fears of Rainey Street serial killer mount as fifth body is pulled from Lady Bird Lake this year in chilling discovery (www.newsbreak.com)
Twitter Down: Users hit by Twitter outage as Elon Musk-owned site crashes again (inews.co.uk)
Supreme court leaves intact Mississippi law disenfranchising Black voters (www.theguardian.com)
Aspartame Sweetener Possible Carcinogen Says W.H..O (www.reuters.com)
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US Supreme Court blocks student loan forgiveness plan (www.npr.org)
Supreme Court blocks Biden's student loan forgiveness program | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
[The Verge] Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (www.theverge.com)
That Chinese surveillance balloon "used commercially available, off-the-shelf technology that was American-made, according to three U.S. officials familiar with preliminary findings by the FBI." (www.nbcnews.com)
Virginia sheriff gave out deputy badges in exchange for cash bribes, feds say (www.cbsnews.com)
Supreme Court says 1st Amendment entitles web designer to refuse same-sex wedding work (www.npr.org)
The court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from "forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees."