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Month: April 2024

Adult entertainment industry asks Supreme Court to block Texas age-verification requirements for porn sites

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A trade group representing the adult entertainment industry asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to temporarily block a Texas age-verification law that it says violates the First Amendment by making it more difficult to access porn sites on the internet. Texas’ law requires any website that publishes a substantial

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Visa fees for international artists to tour in the US shot up 250% in April. It could be devastating

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has instituted a 250% visa fee increase. For those musicians who filed visa paperwork before April 1, the cost per application was $460. After that

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Citing safety, USC makes rare cancellation of speech by valedictorian who supported Palestinians

By JOHN ANTCZAK and JULIE WATSON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California canceled a commencement speech by its 2024 valedictorian who has publicly supported Palestinians, citing security concerns, a rare decision that was praised by several pro-Israel groups and lambasted by free speech advocates and the country’s largest Muslim civil

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OPINIÓN | Roberto Cavalli: adiós al rey de la selva

Valeria Ordóñez Ghio Nota del editor: Mari Rodríguez Ichaso ha sido colaboradora de la revista Vanidades durante varias décadas. Especialista en moda, viajes, gastronomía, arte, arquitectura y entretenimiento. Productora de cine. Columnista de estilo de CNN en Español. Las opiniones expresadas en esta columna son exclusivamente suyas. Lee más artículos de opinión en cnne.com/opinion. (CNN) — Roberto Cavalli,

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La respuesta de Facebook e Instagram al porno generado con IA está en revisión por la junta de supervisión

Belén Liotti (CNN) — La junta de supervisión de Meta evaluará el manejo de la pornografía deepfake por parte de la compañía en medio de crecientes preocupaciones de que la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) esté impulsando un aumento en la creación de imágenes falsas y gráficas como una forma de acoso. La junta de supervisión dijo

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Counterfeit Botox has been found in several states. Here’s what consumers should know.

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration is warning that dangerous counterfeit versions of Botox have been identified in multiple states, putting the safety of consumers at risk. Some serious symptoms – including blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, shortness of breath, difficulty lifting one’s head and even hospitalizations – have been

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Imprisoned drug-diluting pharmacist to be moved to halfway house soon, victims’ lawyer says

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attorney says a former Kansas City-area pharmacist who has been incarcerated for more than two decades over a profit-boosting scheme to dilute tens of thousands of prescriptions for seriously ill patients will be moved to a halfway house this summer. Mike Ketchmark, an attorney

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NASA says it expected space station garbage to burn up. The debris smashed into a Florida home instead

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A piece of garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station unexpectedly survived a fiery reentry from orbit last month and pierced the roof of a home in Florida, according to NASA. When the federal agency disposed of a slab of spaceborne refuse weighing about 5,800 pounds (2,630 kilograms), it expected the

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Snow Report: Tuesday April 16th

Temperatures along the Cascades are below freezing today, so there will be a crisp day to enjoy the groomed surfaces. Timberline did report one new inch of snow in the past 24 hours, but unfortunately that is the only resort reporting snow. The temps will be warming a bit as we move forward through the

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Participant, studio behind ‘Spotlight,’ ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ shutters after 20 years

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer Participant, the activist film and television studio that has financed Oscar winners like “Spotlight” and socially conscious documentaries like “Food, Inc,” and “Waiting For Superman” is closing its doors after 20 years. Billionaire Jeff Skoll told his staff of 100 in a memo shared with The Associated Press Tuesday

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