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Montana close to becoming 1st state to completely ban TikTok

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana lawmakers were expected to take a big step forward Thursday on a bill to ban TikTok from operating in the state, a move that’s bound to face legal challenges but also serve as a testing ground for the TikTok-free America that many national lawmakers have envisioned. Montana’s proposal, which has backing from the state’s GOP-controlled legislature, is more sweeping than bans in place in nearly half the states and the U.S. federal government that prohibit TikTok on government devices.The House was scheduled to hold a second hearing vote on the legislation on Thursday. If it’s approved, a final House vote would likely take place Friday, after which the bill would be forwarded to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. He has banned TikTok on government devices in Montana. The Senate passed the bill 30-20 in March.TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech company ByteDance, has been under intense scrutiny over concerns it could hand over user data...

Johnny Depp y Amber Heard han encontrado la paz en el extranjero un año después de su juicio por difamación en Virginia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

(CNN) — Un año después del comienzo del publicitado juicio por difamación de Johnny Depp y Amber Heard, CNN ha sabido por fuentes cercanas a los actores que la expareja ha dejado atrás su batalla legal.Su dramático juicio televisado en Virginia comenzó el pasado mes de abril y concluyó en junio, cuando el jurado del caso declaró tanto a Heard como a Depp responsables de difamación en sus demandas mutuas. A Depp se le concedieron US$ 10 millones en daños compensatorios y US$ 5 millones en daños punitivos. El jurado concedió a Heard US$ 2 millones por daños compensatorios y ningún dinero por daños punitivos.En diciembre, Heard anunció que ella y Depp habían llegado a un acuerdo en su demanda por difamación, escribiendo en Instagram que ella “no había hecho ninguna admisión” y que el acuerdo “no es un acto de concesión”.“Tomo esta decisión habiendo perdido la fe en el sistema legal estadounidense, donde mi testimonio no protegido sirvió como entreten...

How common is the illness that killed an Eaglecrest High School teacher?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Bacterial meningitis is a highly dangerous disease, but it is relatively rare. FOX31 has learned that a third teacher with the Cherry Creek School District has passed away. Freshman baseball coach and Willow Creek Elementary physical education teacher Scott Nash died over the weekend. His cause of death has not been released, but the district said it does not believe it is related to the bacterial meningitis death of another teacher in the district. Cherry Creek School District: 2nd Eaglecrest High School teacher died over weekend Bacterial meningitis is only one kind of meningitis and is spread mainly through saliva or spit. Meningitis is only one kind of what is called a "meningococcal disease" - any illness caused by a type of bacteria called Neisseria meningitidis, the two most common of which are meningitis and septicemia. Rates of meningococcal disease in the U.S. have been falling for decades and are now at historic lows. In the 1990s, there was one case per...

Go fly a kite at the Arvada Kite Festival this Saturday

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

ARVADA, Colo. (KDVR) — The 18th annual Arvada Kite Festival will be taking to the skies Sunday, April 16. Thousands of enthusiasts and beginners will be heading to Stenger Park to partake in everything that is kite flying.At Stenger Park, the sun is out and the sky is blue. There just might be enough wind here to once again feel like a kid. Gold fever alive and well in Centennial State It will not take long to get that feeling for Ethan Lutz who, as an adult, has flown kites all his life.“It is a little liberating, you know, to have something flying like that. It is free and you are kind of controlling it, but not really, the winds really are more running the show,” said Lutz.Lutz is on the Arvada Kite Festival commission and he is preparing for the 18th annual festival. But today, he is just looking for a little breeze. “Well, I mean, when the weather is windy, it is super easy. It could be just like a beach, we get storms and weather that bring winds. I mean, shoot, it was I w...

GOP’s Tim Scott says he backs 20-week federal abortion ban

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said Thursday that he supports a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and would sign such legislation into law if he became president.“It makes total sense to me,” Scott told reporters in New Hampshire, where he was meeting with GOP officials and pastors a day after announcing his exploratory committee for a 2024 presidential campaign.Abortion has become an increasingly animating issue in elections in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion nationwide. Republican candidates are under pressure from influential anti-abortion groups to support a national ban. Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have sought to codify the right to an abortion.Scott declined to say whether he believes medication abortion should remain legal following a Wednesday ruling by a federal appeals court that preserved access to the abortion pill mifepristone for now...

Suspect in documents leak taken into custody, AP source

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Massachusetts Air National Guard member who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war was taken into custody Thursday by federal agents, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it hadn’t been publicly announced.Investigators believe that the guardsman, who specializes in intelligence, led the online chat group where the documents were posted. The guardsman was identified as 21-year-old Jack Teixeira.FBI agents converged Thursday at Teixeira’s Massachusetts home and heavily armed tactical agents took a man wearing a T-shirt and shorts into custody outside the property.It was not immediately clear if Teixeira had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf, and a phone message left at a number believed to belong to his mother was not immediately returned.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.WASHINGTON (AP...

FBI makes arrest in investigation of suspected leaker of classified intelligence

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

The FBI said it has made an arrest and is conducting a search of a home at a residence in Massachusetts, according to a statement by the agency. It appears to be the home of the mother of the suspected leaker of the classified documents that have circulated on social media in recent days.The home is located in North Dighton, Massachusetts, the FBI said — the same town where the potential leaker and his mother live, according to a review of public records by POLITICO.The New York Times was the first to report that the leaker is likely Jack Teixeira, 21, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard.The 21-year-old appears to have been part of a small group on the Discord social media platform. He first wrote about the sensitive information in written paragraphs, paraphrased from the documents, months ago, as POLITICO previously reported. Starting in January, he began posting photographs of printouts of the documents, which had been folded and then smoothed out.The docume...

FBI agents swarm Massachusetts home in document leak probe

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents converged Thursday at the Massachusetts home of a member of that state’s Air National Guard who has emerged as a main person of interest in the disclosure of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war, two people familiar with the investigation said Thursday.Investigators believe that the guardsman, who specializes in intelligence, led the chat group where the documents were posted, according to the two people, who were not authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.They identified the guardsman as 21-year-old Jack Teixeira.It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf, and a phone message left at a number believed to belong to his mother was not immediately returned. Law enforcement officials roped off the street near the home. The New York Times, which first identified Teixeira o Thursday, said that a man who had been st...

A fireball landed in the US last week, and now there’s a reward to find it

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

(CNN) — Meteorite hunters, get ready to head into the woods.A museum in Maine is offering $25,000 for the remains of a space rock that streaked across the sky last week before landing near the border between the United States and Canada.The fireball, which was visible in broad daylight and created a sonic boom, was detected by radar, allowing NASA’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Lab to calculate the “strewn field” — where fragments of the meteor might be found — near Calais, Maine.Darryl Pitt, head of the meteorite division at the Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, said he was keen to study any fragments of the meteorite, which could contain valuable information about the solar system. The $25,000 reward is for the first meteorite piece found that weighs 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) or more. However, he said the museum would be willing to pay for any specimen “irrespective of its size.”“Finding meteorites...

Odell Beckham Jr. says ‘possibility’ of playing with QB Lamar Jackson part of decision to join Ravens

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:34:54 GMT

Odell Beckham Jr. said he didn’t get any assurances that Lamar Jackson would be the Ravens’ quarterback this season, but the wide receiver acknowledged the “possibility” of teaming up factored into his decision to sign with Baltimore.“The goal was to come here and have the possibility of playing with him,” Beckham said at his introductory news conference Thursday at the Ravens’ facility. “I was just excited about the possibility of that. My thoughts would be that he would be here.”General manager Eric DeCosta said that he hasn’t spoken with Jackson since Beckham signed with the Ravens earlier this week, but that he has talked with the star quarterback since Jackson revealed three weeks ago that he requested on March 2 to be traded. DeCosta added that he’s optimistic the 2019 NFL Most Valuable Player will be the Ravens’ quarterback this season.“Lamar is in our plans,” DeCosta said Thursday. “We&...