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Month: September 2024

Wyden, Merkley, colleagues urge social media, chat platforms to boost efforts to combat 2024 election disinformation

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said Monday they have joined Senate colleagues in calling on 11 of the largest and most popular social media and encrypted chat companies in the United States to increase resources needed to combat 2024 U.S. election administration and certification disinformation.  “We are deeply concerned that

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Pac-12 adding Utah State, in talks with Gonzaga, as Mountain West tries to hold UNLV, AP sources say

AP College Football Writer The Pac-12 is adding Utah State as its seventh member and is in discussions with basketball powerhouse Gonzaga to join the rebuilding conference in 2026, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Monday. In a whirlwind day of maneuvering by three leagues, Utah State and UNLV

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3 Tufts University lacrosse players remain hospitalized after workout with Navy SEAL graduate

By Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Three men’s lacrosse players at Tufts University remain hospitalized after a voluntary, supervised 45-minute workout with a Navy SEAL graduate left them with a dangerous condition called rhabdomyolysis, the university said. A spokesperson for the university previously said five remained hospitalized. The September 16 workout was instructed by a Tufts alumnus who is a “recent graduate of the BUD/S Navy SEAL

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Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX for trespassing on Texas border land

By Ramishah Maruf, CNN New York (CNN) — In 2017, adult party game Cards Against Humanity bought land on the US-Mexico border to meddle with former President Donald Trump’s border wall. Now it’s suing over that land after another controversial billionaire has allegedly moved in without permission. Chicago-based Cards Against Humanity LLC, the publisher of

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