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A New Mexico jury has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta must pay $375 million in civil damages after finding the social media giant violated state law by failing to protect children from predators on its platforms. CNBC reports that the verdict delivered on Tuesday marks a significant legal defeat for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, following a civil trial in Santa Fe that began with opening arguments last month. The jury deliberated starting Monday before reaching their decision that Meta willfully violated New Mexico’s unfair practices act. The case was brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl…

A video showing seven dogs making their way home after escaping from thieves in northeastern China has accumulated over 230 million views, with many fans expressing admiration for the loyalty and courage displayed by the canines. The viral video was reportedly recorded on March 16 by a local man named Lu who saw the group of dogs making their way along a highway near the town of Changchun in Jilin province. The procession was led by a plucky Corgi who constantly looked back to ensure the rest of the group stayed together. The other dogs clustered protectively around an injured…

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban terrorist government is struggling with an influx of returning Afghan refugees fleeing the ongoing war in Iran and detentions in critical agricultural and raw material shipments in the Strait of Hormuz, reports this week indicate. Afghanistan shares an extensive border with Iran. While both countries’ ruling governments are authoritarian, terrorist Islamist entities, Kabul and Tehran have struggled to get along since the return of the Taliban to power in 2021, in large part due to significant water shortages along their border. Both countries have regularly accused each other of hoarding water supplies during the dry winter months.…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN International’s “The Brief,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) argued that “in areas where our interests are questionable” like Iran, President Donald Trump is getting more invested but in areas like Ukraine where we can “push back against one of our biggest adversaries, in this case, Russia, he’s pulling back.” Crow said, “In the areas where we should be supporting our friends and our partners, which would actually promote world peace and security, promote [the] American economy, peace in Europe, which is always in our interests, and push back against one of our biggest adversaries, in this…

Lawmakers are introducing bipartisan legislation to prohibit members of Congress, the president and others in the executive branch from trading in certain prediction markets, according to bill text shared exclusively with POLITICO. Reps. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill.) and Adrian Smith (R-Neb.) will introduce the Preventing Real-time Exploitation and Deceptive Insider Congressional Trading Act, or PREDICT Act, Tuesday to ban members of Congress from participating in prediction markets related to political events or policy decisions. The ban would also extend to dependents and spouses of lawmakers, senior congressional staff, political appointees, the president, vice president and all senior executive branch employees, including…

Girlguiding will require non-biological women to leave by September 2026 under new rules following a court ruling Transgender members in one of Britain’s largest organizations for women and girls, Girlguiding, have been told they must leave by September 2026 under new rules introduced after a Supreme Court ruling on biological sex.  Girlguiding, Britain’s equivalent of the Girl Scouts, said on Tuesday that current trans members will no longer be eligible to stay after September 6. The move follows a December announcement that Girlguiding would no longer admit biological boys who identify as girls.  The rule applies to both young members…

The Madrid-based outlet Diario de Cuba published harrowing testimonies Monday from residents of Havana denouncing arrests and beatings by communist thugs intended to keep them from protesting during the routine nighttime blackouts in the country. Cuba’s decades-old inhumane situation has worsened in the past months after the Castro regime, which has brutally repressed Cubans for over 67 years, found itself abruptly deprived of access to Venezuelan oil following the United States’s arrest of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas. For over two decades, the rogue communists relied on virtually free shipments of Venezuelan oil to keep their ailing regime afloat while helping…

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Way Too Early,” Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) said that Democrats “share the concern about TSA that’s not being paid.” But also, “Democrats have been very solid in the Senate on the need to have guardrails, serious guardrails for ICE, and they have not caved.” Host Ali Vitali asked, “The Hill is a place that runs on rumor until you actually see it in written text, and we don’t have this written text yet, but can you take us inside a little bit, the way that House Democrats are looking at what Senate Democrats are…

Decades of military doctrine crumble as Tehran controls the Gulf and time runs out for Washington A day and a half before the expiration of his 48-hour ultimatum to Iran, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced negotiations and even a possible meeting with Iranian officials. Rumors quickly circulated that the meeting would take place in Pakistan, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner representing the US side, while Iran would send either its foreign minister or a parliamentary speaker. Following the announcement, oil prices plummeted.Shortly afterward, Iranian officials dismissed the reports, confirming only that they had received certain proposals from the…

Iran has laid a small number of sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the critical oil delivery waterway that is at the heart of peace talks between Washington and Tehran, an anonymously-sourced report claims. An alleged U.S. intelligence assessment says there are around one dozen Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz, CBS News has claimed. If true, the sea mine allegation would weigh on the apparently developing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, given the United States’ demands that the Strait of Hormuz be opened for global oil traffic. The report, which relies purely on the assertions of…