SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products, permitting parents to sue platforms like Instagram and TikTok for up to $25,000 per violation under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Monday.
JOHANNESBURG – Environmental activists have been meeting in South Africa this week to press governments and businesses to reduce the production of plastic because it is harming the continent’s environment.
Americans on the cusp of retiring are facing a tough choice as they watch their nest eggs shrink: Stay the course or keep working. A stock market slump this year has taken a big bite out of investors’ portfolios, including retirement plans like 401(k)s.
The third annual Many Mansions golf tournament held last week at Squaw Valley Golf Course raised more than $100,000 and it will go directly to assisting single moms, widows and orphans of Somervell, Johnson and Hood counties.
The Glen Rose Optimist Club recently honored their youths of the month for the months of April and May. Glen Rose High senior Addison Nance was honored as the Glen Rose Optimist Club Youth of the Month for May. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Children on lockdown. Armed officers rushing into a school.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year even though consumers and businesses kept spending at a solid pace, the government reported Thursday in a slight downgrade of its previous estimate for the January-March quarter.
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian Authority on Thursday said its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh proves she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces.
Texas court spares man who killed girl, 11, from execution FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl be removed from the state’s death row. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled by a 6-3 vote that Juan Ramon Meza Segundo does not qualify for execution because of intellectual disability under a recent Supreme Court standard.