A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.Meta’s chairman and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, at Los Angeles Superior Court last month.
Landmark trials are testing a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.The lawsuits are for the first time putting social media companies on the spot for creating harmful products, exposing them to new kinds of liability.
The jobs cuts and a new stock program for executives come as Meta continues to shift its focus to artificial intelligence.
Republicans and Democrats alike have criticized the Trump administration’s moves, taken to stabilize oil markets rocked by the war with Iran, warning that it is benefiting two U.S. adversaries.A tanker carrying Russian oil in Gujarat, India, earlier this month. The Trump administration has defended
From India to Southeast Asia to South Korea, currencies are crumbling as governments race to secure fuel that is priced in American money.People lining up to refuel at a gas station in Ahmedabad in India on Monday.
The president has domestic and international political motivations for touting negotiations to end the war. Iran has similar ones to deny discussions.President Trump has raised hopes that the war with Iran might end soon.
It was unclear whether having agents helping with screening passengers would improve wait times. Some travelers expressed worries.Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Wednesday.
Lines were long at airports nationwide Tuesday amid T.S.A. staffing shortages, but passengers at Bush Intercontinental Airport waited more than four hours to pass through checkpoints.The George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston last week. Travelers waited more than four hours on Tuesday to go
The lack of French in Michael Rousseau’s speech about the deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport reignited a debate over linguistic inclusivity in Canada.Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau in 2024.
The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”Melania Trump, the first lady, with Figure 3, a humanoid robot developed by Figure AI, an artificial intelligence robotics company.
The administration has yet to find a candidate who aligns with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s agenda while avoiding his unpopular stance on vaccines.Under federal law, the White House has until midnight on Wednesday to nominate a replacement for former Centers for Disease Control and Preve
Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House.Kate Marvel, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies at Columbia University, is one of the almost 100,000 scientists to leav
Within the Senate’s housing bill lie the terms of an unusual debate: Who gets to own — and live in — single-family homes?A rental home community being built in Simpsonville, S.C.
Courts are weighing whether the administration can hold undocumented immigrants without bond, an issue that may be resolved by the Supreme Court.Federal agents making an arrest in Minneapolis in January. Should the Trump administration’s policy continue to win support at the appellate level, it woul
The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance — and their own.
Tired of seeing its elementary-school children struggle with online temptations, the town of Greystones proposed a ‘no smart devices’ code. Most everyone bought in.The seaside town of Greystones, Ireland, is experimenting with a voluntary ban on smart devices for preteen children. Most of the town,
James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, said, “You may pray for my death, Pastor, but I still love you.” The pastor said he was calling for Mr. Talarico’s religious conversion.James Talarico at his election night party this month in Austin, Texas.
Republicans are eying a last-ditch procedural maneuver to overcome united Democratic opposition, but the chances for success are slim.Senator John Thune, the majority leader, brought the SAVE America Act to the floor under intense pressure from President Trump and conservatives who maintained that i
A mother of three won a statehouse seat that includes Mar-a-Lago, while a union electrician leads in a State Senate race in conservative West Tampa.Emily Gregory, a first-time candidate, won in Palm Beach County, Fla., not by focusing on her most famous constituent but by castigating leaders in Tall
Republicans are cautiously optimistic about a statewide referendum now at the center of the country’s gerrymandering war, but Democrats have a huge cash advantage.Virginians for Fair Elections, the main Democratic-aligned effort to redraw congressional maps in Virginia, has heavily out-raised the ma
A Reddit forum has become a haven for those deciding whether it’s time to shave it all.
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for Mozart’s life in music.
An oil blockade could pressure Iran. Sanctions relief would do the opposite.
