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Harry Styles pledges a $1 million dollar donation to end gun violence in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) Harry Styles wants to help end gun violence. The Harry’s House singer announced on social media that he will be partnering with the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Tex. on May 24, 2022. “Along with all of you, I have been absolutely devastated by the recent string of mass… Source link

Texas’s top public safety official said officers on the scene failed to follow protocol at the Uvalde elementary school shooting, with officers standing in the hallway as children in the classroom called 911 as their classmates were killed. At a Friday afternoon press conference, state Director of Public Safety Steven McCraw said that 19 officers stood in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classroom on Tuesday while students inside the room called 911 for help. McCraw said the on-site… Source link

LeBron James was one of plenty in the sports world who was outraged on Tuesday afternoon after a horrific mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. The Los Angeles Lakers star erupted on social media calling for change after at least 18 students and three adults were killed in Uvalde, Texas. “Like when is enough enough man!!!” he wrote, in part. “These are kids and we keep putting them in harm’s way at school. Like seriously ‘AT SCHOOL’ where it’s suppose to be the safest.

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WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit. Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia filed separate suits against Google in January in state courts over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.

After a controversial new social media law went into effect Wednesday in Texas, the Supreme Court began weighing Big Tech’s emergency request to put it on hold as the tech industry fights the legislation. Texas statute HB 20 requires large platforms like Twitter (TWTR), Meta’s Facebook and Instagram (FB), TikTok, and YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL) to publish all user posts that express a “viewpoint.” Their industry lobbyists are challenging the statute on First Amendment and other grounds, and… Source link

The first bus of migrants from Texas’ southern border arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning, one week after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to send migrants to the nation’s capital. in protest of President Biden’s immigration policies. However, despite Abbott’s pledge to deliver the migrants to “the steps of the United States Capitol,” they were reportedly dropped off nearby, outside Fox News’ D.C. bureau. According to CNN, at least five of the migrants who disembarked… Source link

Google asked a federal court on Friday to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit led by the State of Texas, the first time it has sought to have one of the government competition cases against it thrown out in the United States. In a filing, Google said the state had failed to show that it engaged in anticompetitive behavior and hadn’t proved that an agreement between Facebook and Google, a core part of the case, violated the law. “We’re confident that this case is wrong on the facts and the law,… Source link

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) asked a federal judge on Friday to dismiss the majority of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Texas and other states that accused the search giant of abusing its dominance of the online advertising market. Google said in its court filing that the states failed to show that it illegally worked with Facebook, now Meta (FB.O), to counter “header bidding,” a technology that publishers developed to make more money from advertising placed on… Source link

At its highest reaches, Kyle Field rises 182 feet, or nearly 17 stories, from the center of the Texas A&M campus in College Station, towering over almost everything else in sight. It is a massive, mammoth construct. It’s so mesmerizing that about a dozen years ago a group of undergrads began dreaming of climbing to the top of it and filming themselves attempting to throw a basketball all the way down into a hoop. It was then that “Dude Perfect” was born. JerryWorld in Arlington may be the… Source link