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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta, TikTok, Google, Snap and other tech companies of deliberately designing addictive platforms for young users can proceed. Time reports that the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the thousands of lawsuits, filed by states, municipalities, school districts and individuals, can move forward in district court. The plaintiffs allege that addictive algorithms and insufficient safeguards against harmful content have contributed to rising rates of depression, anxiety and body image issues among young people. The cases had been consolidated before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez…

Russia’s Supreme Court has blocked what is described as the country’s final active liberal political party from contesting September’s federal elections, after the faction was accused of being active on Western social media, and of taking Western money. The Yabloko [‘Apple’] party, led by chairman Nikolai Rybakov has been de-registered as a legal party and consequently blocked from contesting September’s federal elections for the State Duma [federal assembly or parliament]. The ruling in Russia’s Supreme Court came on Monday afternoon and came after a legal complaint was lodged by small pro-Kremlin nationalist party Rodina [‘Motherland’] in protest at the Russian electoral commission…

Small business owners in the U.S. are planning a hiring and investment wave that the economy has not seen in years. The National Federation of Independent Business’s small business optimism index rose 2.4 points to 99.8, the highest level since August 2025. That was a much bigger improvement than economists had expected. It is the highest reading since August of last year. Hiring and investment plans are up. The net share of small businesses planning to make capital outlays rose to the highest level since the end of 2024. The net share planning to add workers to their payrolls rose…

In a congressional district President Trump won by 11 points, incumbent U.S. Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is down eight points in the latest polling. Miller was first elected to this seat in 2022. Back in 2024, he won reelection by nearly 11 points (55.3 to 44.6 percent). In this cycle, however, a brutal scandal has cost him majority support in poll after poll, including this latest one by Tavern Research, which shows Miller losing to his Democrat opponent, Brian Poindexter, by eight points, 46 percent to 54 percent. An early August poll from a Republican pollster had Miller losing to…

ADHD is Not a Medical ConditionRepublished with permission from AbleChild.You know there’s a problem with mental health when a former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) goes public with the forbidden statement that ADHD is “not a medical condition.” Of course, the good doctor is right, there is zero evidence that there is any abnormality in the brain that is ADHD and, frankly, medicine knows it.The apparent faux pas occurred when Dr. Iona Heath, a general practitioner in north London for nearly four decades, was interviewed for a news documentary that will air sometime next year in…

The British network Sky News reported on Tuesday, citing “police sources” in Spain, that about 75 migrants who had joined the illegal mass invasion of Ceuta had reached the mainland of the country, contradicting assurances by the socialist government that this was not the case. Ceuta, a Spanish territory on the African continent that borders Morocco, was subject to an invasion of tens of thousands of mostly male, North African migrants on July 30, who swam around the coast that connects Morocco to Ceuta and touched ground as quickly as possible. The migrants were responding to a judicial decision that…

The sales growth of real food outpaced ultra-processed foods for the first time by seven percent, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday. “Over the past year, sales growth of real food outpaced ultra-processed foods for the first time by approximately 7 percent, and industry is responding,” Kennedy said on Monday, making a major announcement regarding food policy reforms. Kennedy noted that many companies have taken actions such as changing the ingredients in their products and removing artificial dyes to better align with the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. He noted Kellogg’s statement on August 6…

For Ankara, the Mecca pact is a way to turn military weight, Gulf money and regional reach into leverage On August 7, in the Al-Safa Palace in Mecca, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in signing an agreement whose consequences may prove far greater than its deliberately restrained language suggests.The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement commits the three countries to regard an armed attack against one of them as an attack against all, placing collective defense at the heart of a relationship previously built through bilateral military cooperation, arms…

Who Controls Hawaiʻi’s Elections Commission? Supreme Court Asked to Decide Whether Office of Elections Can Block Its Oversight Commission From MeetingHONOLULU, Hawaiʻi — A case now before the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court raises a fundamental question about who ultimately controls the ability of the Hawaiʻi Elections Commission to meet and carry out its responsibilities: the Commission itself, or the Office of Elections that the Commission was created to oversee.The dispute arose after the term of Elections Commission Chair Michael Curtis expired on June 30, 2026, leaving the Commission without a chair. Commissioners Ralph Cushnie and Tamara McKay sought administrative support from…

The Trump administration is taking two more steps to help solidify the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Monday. Kennedy brought Americans back to the day that he and President Donald Trump promised to make America healthy again and “transform our food systems and confront one of the most powerful drivers of America’s chronic disease crisis.” “Almost exactly two years later, we’re here celebrating the most transformative 18 months of food reform in modern American history. And today we’re taking two more historic steps to deliver on that promise…