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Jakarta (AFP) – Indonesia issued a second round of summons letters on Thursday to Google and Meta for allegedly flouting a days-old ban on social media access for under-16s. The Communication and Digital Ministry said it had “issued a second summons letter to Google (YouTube) and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) after both parties failed to comply” and warned of “sanctions”. App-addicted Indonesia began enforcing a social media ban for users under the age of 16 on Saturday, citing threats from online pornography, cyberbullying and internet addiction. The ministry said Thursday Google and Meta had asked for a postponement and had…

The Supreme Court overwhelmingly ruled against a Colorado “conversion therapy” law on Tuesday that bans therapists from helping minors align their “gender identity” with their biological reality.  The High Court ruled against the law 8-1, saying it likely violates the First Amendment by allowing some viewpoints but not others. Liberal-leaning Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has repeatedly been unable to describe what a woman is, penned the lone dissent.  Colorado’s law was passed in 2019; more than 20 other states have laws banning “conversion therapy.” While Colorado’s law bans archaic and unethical aversion methods historically associated with conversion therapy, like…

Artificial Intelligence is here whether you like it or not. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will shape American life, but whether we will construct the legal architecture surrounding it to promote prosperity and productivity for all Americans—or permit it to become an instrument of nationwide persecution. A patchwork of state AI laws and regulations is already attempting to ensure the latter. Because AI models are developed centrally and deployed uniformly across jurisdictions, rational actors will conform to the most stringent requirements anywhere on the books. The result is governance by the lowest common denominator: one radical legislature…

Young radicals accused of attacking dozens of Milan police officers during an anti-Israel demonstration in September will avoid punishment after a judge ruled it may interfere with their studies. Upwards of 60 police officers were injured in the Italian city during clashes with far-left Antifa and pro-Palestine activists at the September 22 protest against the Gaza war. The local Corriere della Sera newspaper reported at the time that the militants attacked officers with stones, glass bottles, dug up cobblestones, trash cans and bicycles. The protesters also did significant damage to public property, including Milan’s Central, Porta Garibaldi, and Rogoredo train stations. However, despite…

Democrats are facing criticism for honoring the “resilience” of transgender individuals – those who believe they are the opposite sex – on what secular society has deemed the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” The official X account of the Democratic National Committee posted in honor of the day, writing, “Trans rights are human rights. This Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the resilience of transgender and nonbinary Americans and celebrate their incredible courage.” The moment of honor was not widely accepted. Some commenters, for example, pointed to some of the horrific crimes committed by transgender individuals, including the trans shooter, Robin Westman,…

Strikes have “deliberately” targeted over 600 educational facilities, including the school in Minab where more than 160 children were killed, according to Tehran Iran has accused the US and Israel of genocide over the “deliberate” targeting of schools and education facilities in strikes on the country.In a post on X on Wednesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said more than 600 schools and educational facilities across Iran have been targeted in US-Israeli attacks over the past month, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab where more than 160 children were killed.”This is not an isolated act of cruelty – it is…

King Charles III will address a Joint Meeting of Congress during his state visit to the United States of America in April, a trip marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Speaker Mike Johnson said. The United States House of Representatives and United States Senate will sit for a Joint Meeting of Congress on April 28th to hear a speech by King Charles III of the United Kingdom celebrating “the shared heritage” of the two countries. It will be only the second time a British monarch has addressed such a meeting, the first being Queen Elizabeth II in 1991…

President Donald Trump announced that he, and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, are cleaning up Washington, D.C.’s “absolutely filthy Reflecting Pool.” In a post on Truth Social, Trump criticized former President Joe Biden, adding that “This work was supposed to be done by the Biden Administration.” “Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I are working on fixing the absolutely filthy Reflecting Pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument,” Trump said. “This work was supposed to be done by the Biden Administration, but Sleepy Joe doesn’t know what ‘CLEAN’ or proper maintenance is — The President and…

The Senate sent its deal to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security back to the House Thursday morning — marking what should be the beginning of the end of a historic partial government shutdown. The Senate’s action, taken in a mostly empty chamber just after 7 a.m., came less than a day after President Donald Trump effectively endorsed a two-track strategy for DHS: funding most of it through a bipartisan deal with Democrats then using the party-line budget reconciliation process for immigration enforcement activities. That means undertaking a redo of the bill Senate Majority Leader John Thune moved…

Tour guides on Himalayan treks reportedly defrauded several British and Australian insurance companies.    Several tour guides in Nepal ran a fake helicopter rescue racket to defraud insurance companies in Australia and the UK, The Kathmandu Post has reported. Investigations by the paper revealed that the guides first staged a medical emergency, called in a helicopter, and checked tourists into a hospital.An insurance claim was then filed, which made it difficult for the foreign insurers, mostly operating from Australia and the UK, to verify incidents that purportedly happened at altitudes of 3,000 meters above sea level in remote Himalayan locations, according…