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Instagram's 'deliberate design choices' make it unsafe for teens despite Meta promises, report says
Despite years of congressional hearings, lawsuits, academic research, whistleblowers and testimony from parents and teenagers about the dangers of Instagram, Meta's wildly popular app has failed to protect children from harm, with "woefully ineffective" safety measures, according to a new report from former employee and wh ... (full story)
US home sales sluggish in August despite late-summer mortgage rate slide
Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes remained sluggish in August, even as a late-summer slide in mortgage rates brought home loan borrowing costs to a 10-month low.
Existing home sales slipped 0.2% last month from July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4 million units, the National Association of Realtors said. That's t ... (full story)
Hunting fat yields
Q: I know that when the stock market tumbles, dividend yields go up. Is that a good time to hunt for fat dividend yields? -- T.T., Big Rapids, Michigan
A: Yes -- with a caution. A dividend yield is simply a company's annual dividend amount divided by its current stock price. So when the price falls, the yield will rise, and vice ... (full story)
Local
Title IX's effectiveness in addressing campus sexual assault is at risk − a law professor explains why
(THE CONVERSATION) Most Americans assume that schools are legally required to protect students from sexual harassment and assault under Title IX – the federal law enacted in 1972 that bans sexual discrimination in education.
I am a law professor and researcher who has spent more than a decade examining the disconnect betwe ... (full story)
Bacteria attached to charcoal could help keep an infamous 'forever chemical' out of waterways
(THE CONVERSATION) Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a class of fire-resistant industrial chemicals, were widely used in electrical transformers, oils, paints and even building materials throughout the 20th century. However, once scientists learned PCBs were accumulating in the environment and posed a cancer risk to humans, new PC ... (full story)
State
What to know about the H-1B visa Trump has targeted with $100,000 fees, generating confusion, fear
The Trump administration's abrupt decision to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas has stunned and confused employers, students and workers from the United States to India and beyond.
Since announcing the decision, the White House has tried to reassure jittery companies that the fee does not apply to existing visa holders and that ... (full story)
Chicago area center in Trump's immigration crackdown sparks complaints of inhumane conditions
CHICAGO (AP) — A boarded-up building in a small Chicago suburb has become the front line of a federal immigration crackdown, with growing accusations that the facility meant to process arrestees is a de facto detention center plagued by inhumane conditions.
The Trump administration has targeted the Chicago area for its lat ... (full story)