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MINNEAPOLIS — X Corp., the social media platform owned by Trump adviser Elon Musk, is challenging the constitutionality of a Minnesota ban on using deepfakes to influence elections and harm candidates, saying it violates First Amendment speech protections.The company’s federal lawsuit filed this week also contends that the 2023 state law is preempted by a 1996 federal statute that shields social media from being held responsible for material posted on their platforms.“While the law’s reference to banning ‘deep fakes’ might sound benign, in reality it would criminalize innocuous, election-related speech, including humor, and make social-media platforms criminally liable for censoring…
“It has been a success.”Just Stop Oil (JSO) insists it’s been “successful” – as its members ceremoniously hang up their orange high-vis vests during a march in central London. Since the group formed three years ago, it’s drawn attention and criticism for its colourful, controversial protests, which ranged from disrupting sporting events to throwing soup on Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers, and climbing on gantries over the M25. It sprayed orange paint over Stonehenge, and cost police forces tens of millions of pounds.Those days are now behind it; to the relief of many.Read moreJSO co-founder wins court appealActivists target grave of…
Washington — Hundreds of U.S. universities and colleges, including Harvard, Princeton, Penn, Brown, MIT, Cornell and Tufts issued a joint letter Tuesday condemning President Trump’s “political interference” in the nation’s education system. The move comes a day after Harvard University sued the Trump administration, which announced an initial funding freeze of $2.2 billion and later signaled its intention to suspend an additional $1 billion in grants. The moves came after weeks of escalation between the administration and Harvard, which had rejected the administration’s demands to change many of the school’s policies and leadership, including auditing the student body and faculty for “viewpoint diversity.””We speak…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A lawsuit against Florida’s ban on “lab-grown” meat is still alive after a federal judge tossed four parts of the suit on Friday but kept a fifth.Northern District of Florida Chief Judge Mark Walker declined to dismiss a part of the lawsuit that argued Florida’s restrictions give an unconstitutional advantage to Florida farmers over out-of-state competitors. Meanwhile, the judge sided with state attorneys seeking to dismiss the lawsuit and their argument that federal approval of cultivated chicken doesn’t mean individual states can’t ban it.U.S. regulators first signed off on the sale of what’s known as “cell-cultured” or…
HONG KONG — Global markets were mostly higher on Monday as investors watched to see what may come of negotiations over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The future for the S&P 500 dropped 0.3% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.2%.Germany’s DAX added 0.2% to 22,294.34 and the CAC 40 in Paris gained 0.4% to 7,568.75. Britain’s FTSE 100 advanced 0.3% to 8436.78.Shares in China slipped despite more efforts by Beijing to boost the economy, as the status of talks between Washington and Beijing remained unclear.Trump has said he’s actively negotiating with the Chinese government on tariffs…
A famous anti-piracy campaign from the early 2000s is in the spotlight after it appeared the font used in the adverts was pirated.The dramatic campaign compared pirating films to stealing cars, handbags and televisions, telling viewers: “You wouldn’t steal a car”. It appeared in cinemas and on DVDs around the world from 2004. But now, social media users have discovered the font used in the campaign was pirated from a typeface created by designer Just van Rossum.Bluesky user Rib extracted the fonts used in one of the campaign’s old PDFs and discovered the pirated font Xband-Rough was used instead of…
Shares in meal delivery platform Deliveroo have surged by 17% as investors react to news of a £2.7bn takeover proposal.The company revealed after the market had closed on Friday that it had been in talks since 5 April with US rival DoorDash. Deliveroo suggested then it was likely the 180p per share offer would be recommended, though full terms were yet to be agreed.Money latest: Vet hits back at critics of prices At that price, the company’s founder and chief executive, Will Shu, would be in line for a windfall of more than £170m. Deliveroo further announced, before trading on…
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VANRAFIA (atrasentan), FDA-approved in April 2025, showed strong proteinuria reduction without REMS but carries similar safety warnings, requiring ongoing liver and pregnancy monitoring. However, its approval has sparked the competition between other pharma companies such as Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Vera Therapeutics, and AstraZeneca, among others, to bring their candidates to the IgAN market. LAS VEGAS, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is an autoimmune disorder that affects the kidneys by impairing the filtration function of the small blood vessels. It is caused by an abnormal protein that damages the glomeruli, the kidneys’ filtering structures. Other IgA nephropathy symptoms may…
Getting a college education has traditionally been seen as a way to move up the economic ladder. But an analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that the cost of a degree may not always be worth it.The value of a college education has increasingly come into question in recent years, especially as tuition costs steadily climb and millions of Americans grapple with student loans. As a result, only one in four U.S. adults say it’s extremely or very important to have a four-year college degree to get a well-paying job, according to a 2024 Pew…