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Apr 11 2024
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Social media posts get the details wrong about ProduceMaxx
Are grocery stores that spray mist on fresh produce spraying toxic chemicals? That’s the claim in two social media videos that appear to have been recorded in the same store. "If you are buying organic produce at the grocery store, there is something called (ProduceMaxx) on top of all the produce," a March 31 Instagram video’s narrator said as he stood in the produce section of a Sprouts
PolitiFactApr 17 2024
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Iowa lawmakers revive social studies curriculum bill, with focus on 'Western civilization'
Iowa lawmakers are on the brink of passing new social studies requirements that include a focus on "Western civilization," among other themes and topics. Senate Republicans revived the proposal in a last-minute amendment to a separate bill Tuesday, approving a plan for the State Board of Education to review and revise Iowa's social studies standards — over the objections of Democrats. Those
Des Moines RegisterApr 17 2024
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Ahead of Paris Olympics, police oversee evictions, leading to charges of 'social cleansing'
French police oversaw the eviction of hundreds of migrants and homeless people from an abandoned building in a suburb of Paris on Wednesday, the latest move in what one local charity has called "a social cleansing" ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics. French news outlets reported Wednesday that roughly 300 migrants were ushered out of an old office building in Vitry-sur-Seine, a southern suburb
"USA Today" ContributorApr 02 2024
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How Much Is Trump’s Truth Social Worth?
On the menu today: On paper, Donald Trump has just enjoyed a quick infusion of cash, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. But the newly released financial records of Truth Social paint a picture of a social-media site with limited audience, advertisers, and revenue — raising the question of how long that new stock is going to stay all that high. Meanwhile, Trump travels to Grand
National Review (News)Apr 16 2024
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Protests Can Trend On Social Media—Yet, Reactions Aren’t So Supportive
For months, large-scale protests around the world have sought to bring attention to the Palestinian cause. Such was the case on Monday, as protestors shut down San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, snarled traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, and even blocked traffic to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. "Peaceful protests—as we know—are protected by the First Amendment, and as
ForbesApr 10 2024
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From Prof. Adam Candeub on the Texas Social Media Law
I'm glad to be able to pass along this item from Prof. Candeub (who has written extensively on this general subject): Similarly, under common carrier law, a legal category that predates public accommodations, firms that engage in the business of transmitting messages as part of an undertaking to provide carriage to everyone, such as letter and package carriers, telephones and telegraphs, must
ReasonApr 13 2024
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Area students are winners at 2024WV State Social Studies Fair
Apr. 13—CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) hosted more than 500 students in Charleston as part of the 2024 West Virginia State Social Studies Fair (WVSSSF). Students worked individually and in teams to enter approximately 320 projects. The event brought students from 40 counties to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center and features the largest competition
Yahoo NewsApr 18 2024
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Jordan Rodell: Proposed social media legislation would undermine First Amendment protections
A new Minnesota proposal stands poised to follow Texas and Florida in violating centuries of First Amendment protections against government compelling or blocking speech. The proposed legislation raises similar concerns to cases the Supreme Court heard last month to block Texas and Florida social media laws on constitutional grounds. These bills (HF 4400/SF 4696) put Minnesotans at risk of
Pioneer PressApr 15 2024
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Retired Americans with student loan debt risk garnishment of Social Security benefits
Millions of older Americans at risk of defaulting on student loan payments may lose some of their Social Security benefits, Democratic lawmakers said in a letter urging President Joe Biden's administration to act. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., were among several lawmakers who wrote to President Joe Biden about the risk student loan borrowers aged 65 or older faced
Fox BusinessApr 05 2024
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How a social media feud led to a couple's murder
When police found Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie Jean Hayworth shot execution-style in a rural Tennessee home with their 7-month-old son Tyler alive in Hayworth's arms in 2012, it sparked an investigation that would lead them to discover a complex murder concocted by a woman who was in the middle of a social media feud. Jenelle Potter has been serving two concurrent life sentences for the
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