Elon Musk says he paused Twitter deal over fake user accounts: Why they matter
Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to purchase Twitter struck an unexpected roadblock early Friday morning when he tweeted that he had put the deal “temporarily on hold,” citing concern ov…
911 calls released in connection to woman whose disappearance led to Gilgo Beach victims
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Police are thinking differently about the undetermined death of a woman previously thought to have been killed in a rash of prostitute murders on Long Island, New York.
Suffolk County police on Friday released t…
Gwyneth Paltrow’s $150 fake disposable diapers were meant to highlight real affordability problem
ABC(NOTE LANGUAGE) When Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle brand Goop announced the Diapér [Dye-PAIR] — a luxury disposable diaper selling for $150 for a pack of 12 — it raised eyebrows.
Then again, Goop also sells that infamous Gwyneth’s nethers-scented c…
Biden defends response to baby formula shortage as complaints grow, probes planned
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday defended his administration’s response to an ongoing baby formula shortage that has triggered public outcry from parents, lawmakers and drawn Republican fire.
“There’s nothing more…
‘True Lies’ becoming a series at CBS
Ronald Siemoneit/Sygma/Sygma via Getty ImagesTrue Lies, an adaptation of the 1994 James Cameron-directed film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, is coming to CBS as a series.
The series had been in development for a while, with Camer…
Arkansas police investigating fatal shooting following high school graduation
avid_creative/Getty Images(HOT SPRINGS, Ark.) — Police in Hot Springs, Arkansas, said they arrested a man after a shooting left one person dead and three others injured following a high school graduation.
The three injured were transported to local h…
DSU to file civil rights complaint over drug search of lacrosse team bus
Liberty County Sheriff’s Office(NEW YORK) — Delaware State University announced plans to file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice over what its president called a “constitutionally dubious” drug search of a bus transporting it…
House Democrats call on Supreme Court to defend abortion access
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol facing the Supreme Court on Friday, calling on the justices to defend access to abortion on the eve of abortion rights prote…
19-year-old becomes youngest Black student to graduate from Texas law school
Haley Taylor Schlitz(DALLAS) — Haley Taylor Schlitz made headlines in 2019 after getting accepted into nine law schools. She was just 16 at the time.
Now, after three years of classes, long nights, clerkships and internships – and a pandemic to boot …
Texas Supreme Court overturns halt on investigations into trans youth care
Brandon Bell/Getty Images(AUSTIN, Texas) — The Texas Supreme Court reversed the statewide halt on investigations into parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children on Friday.
However, the court also stated that the Texas Dep…