ga-oh- Top Story: TikTok May Be Held Liable for Girl’s Death, Upending Three Decades of Tech Immunity
Day: September 2, 2024
Top Commentary: Time and Again, Kamala Harris Demonstrates She is ‘The Committee’s’ Candidate
TSNN Featured: ‘Never Walz’ Booth Draws Crowds as State Fair Political Scene Turns Attention to Minnesota’s Governor
Teen Girl at Baseball Game Stabbed by Previously Deported Illegal Migrant, Police Allege
A teen girl at an Indiana baseball game was randomly stabbed over the weekend by a man local authorities say is a previously deported illegal immigrant. The 14-year-old girl was watching her brother’s baseball game in Lowell, Indiana, on Saturday when a man randomly stabbed her in the hand and fled the scene, according to NBC Chicago. Law enforcement arrested Dimas Gabriel Yanez, a 26-year-old Honduran national, following an extensive manhunt that ended on Sunday amid a foot pursuit in a Lake County cornfield.
Read MoreGovernment’s Entrenched ‘Disinformation’ Policing Infrastructure Will Take a Decade to Dismantle, Free Speech Expert Says
As the 2024 election fast approaches, a former State Department official turned free speech advocate told Just the News that the entrenched censorship regime created to police disinformation and misinformation along ideological lines will take considerable work to reverse.
Read MoreTikTok May Be Held Liable for Girl’s Death, Upending Three Decades of Tech Immunity
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet” may not be as powerful as believed by the bipartisan chorus demanding reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
TikTok’s biggest immediate problem now may be its own users, their parents, and state attorneys general, rather than the state and federal lawmakers seeking to ban the Chinese-owned company and force ByteDance to sell it to an American entity, following a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Aug. 27 that denies TikTok legal immunity for an algorithm choice.
Read MoreTwo-Time Failed Presidential Candidate Chris Christie to Teach Ivy League Course ‘How to Run a Political Campaign’
Former Republican New Jersey Governor and failed presidential candidate Chris Christie will teach a course at Yale University on how to run for office, according the description.
Christie, who was governor from 2010 to 2018 and dropped out of the 2016 and 2024 presidential elections, will teach “How to Run a Political Campaign” during the fall 2024 semester, according to the catalog. The course offers one credit for students, is taught once a week and is offered as an elective.
Read MoreNavy Relieves Officer Once Pictured Shooting Rifle with Backwards Scope from Ship Command
The U.S. Navy relieved an officer who was once photographed firing a weapon with an attached scope facing the wrong direction from the command of a missile destroyer ship on Friday.
Read MoreBig Tech Liable for Breaking Promises to Users that Led to Suicide, Death Threats: Appeals Court
Days before the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent Big Tech lawyers scrambling by upending three decades of judicial precedents on Section 230 immunity from liability, its West Coast counterpart warned platforms their immunity had limits, too.
While far smaller in scope than the 3rd Circuit’s ruling that TikTok could be held liable for a little girl’s death by algorithmically recommending the video she fatally copied, likely to provoke Supreme Court intervention, the 9th Circuit ruling Aug. 22 against third-party Snapchat app developer Yolo also suggests judges are growing skeptical of maximalist views of the 1996 law.
Read MoreHarris Campaign Selectively Barring Reporters from Campaign Coverage
The Harris-Walz campaign has continuously denied reporters and photographers from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette access to the campaign events, reportedly due to labor action within the company, according to an op-ed from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editor Brandon McGinley (pictured above).
Read More‘Never Walz’ Booth Draws Crowds as State Fair Political Scene Turns Attention to Minnesota’s Governor
The sound of a gameshow-like spinning wheel was almost as constant as the smell of fried foods on a stick along a stretch of Underwood Street on a mostly sunny Wednesday afternoon. A line of about five dozen people snaked its way down the boulevard stretching southward to Ye Old Mill at Carnes Avenue.
“You landed on Covid snitch line!” a volunteer from behind the “NEVER WALZ” booth shouted to a throng of onlookers who either cheered, jeered or were indifferent.
Read MoreCommentary: Time and Again, Kamala Harris Demonstrates She is ‘The Committee’s’ Candidate
So on Thursday, Kamala Harris was finally allowed out to meet the press.
Well, she was allowed to sit for about 18 minutes for a carefully scripted interview on a Dem-friendly network — CNN — with a partisan media head — Dana Bash — who came with a satchel of softballs. Apparently, Harris has yet to be certified for solo flight, however, since she was chaperoned by her pick for VP, Minnesota governor and serial fantasist Tim Walz.
Read MoreCommentary: This Labor Day, Remember the True Value of the American Worker
The American worker lives by the motto “an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay.” While the attitude behind that adage is celebrated this Labor Day, it is important to remember that Americans work for more than just money — we take pride and purpose in what we make and accomplish.
American workers are not some cog in a machine. They are craftsmen, perfectionists, innovators and, most of all, worthwhile investments. Ipsos polling in 2023 showed that a majority of Americans believe it is “extremely important” that their work “helps people and society.”
Read MoreNorthern Border Sector Continues to Break Records in Apprehensions
The busiest U.S. Customs and Border Protection sector at the northern border continues to break records in apprehensions with foreign nationals coming from 85 countries to Canada to illegally enter the U.S.
In less than 10 months, Swanton Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 15,000 foreign nationals from 85 countries who all illegally entered the U.S. through Canada, the greatest volume reported in this time period in recorded history.
Read MoreU.S. Surgeon General Warns Parents’ Stress Levels Are an ‘Urgent Public Health Issue’
United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Wednesday issued a public health advisory that emphasized the importance of mental health in parents.
Murthy claimed in a post by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that parents over the past decade have consistently been more likely to report high stress levels than in the past.
Read MoreCommentary: The Forgotten Meaning of Labor Day
Labor Day is a U.S. national holiday held the first Monday every September. Unlike most U.S. holidays, it is a strange celebration without rituals, except for shopping and barbecuing. For most people it simply marks the last weekend of summer and the start of the school year.
The holiday’s founders in the late 1800s envisioned something very different from what the day has become. The founders were looking for two things: a means of unifying union workers and a reduction in work time.
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