3+ week, 4+ day ago   (721+ words) As opening statements kicked off Tuesday in a trial for Meta Platforms, advocates and parents of social media victims gathered outside the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, with a banner that stretched several feet across. Written on it in black…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (91+ words) Privacy advocates say the cameras amount to a warrantless search. Police say they save lives. A trending article titled "Virginia Tech researchers develop smart patch that automatically delivers naloxone during a fentanyl overdose" with 2 comments. Virginia Tech researchers develop smart…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (714+ words) CHICAGO – Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is fighting…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (967+ words) LOS ANGELES – Here’s another place the AI frenzy is making itself felt: the market for luxury homes. High-income earners, many of them employees at AI companies, are snapping up multimillion-dollar houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, undaunted by the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1141+ words) LOS ANGELES – For nearly 30 years, the story of Tupac Shakur’s killing existed somewhere between an unsolved murder and hip-hop mythology. Now, a Las Vegas jury has delivered something that seemed elusive for decades: a conviction. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (715+ words) OAKLAND, Calif. – A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (131+ words) WSLS Roadless Rule at Risk: What Virginia Could Lose A federal rule that has limited road construction and timber harvesting in some of the least-developed parts of national forests for 25 years could soon be eliminated. The Roadless Rule has protected…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (597+ words) MELBOURNE – The San Francisco 49ers have arrived in Australia, mostly gotten over the impact of the long flight and now are getting prepared to open their season Friday in Melbourne against the Los Angeles Rams. The Niners left California last Wednesday,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (808+ words) The Pac-12, the self-dubbed “Conference of Champions” with athletic excellence going back more than a century, turned into the conference of ashes. A mass exodus of 10 schools in 15 months left the Pac-12 in tatters, dimming the future of a conference…...

21+ hour, 1+ min ago   (194+ words) A trespasser was reported Friday night at former Vice President Kamala Harris’ home in Malibu, California, law enforcement officials and a Harris spokesperson said. Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to her home around 10:30 p.m. after her private security…...