Elon Musk’s X Corp. sues nonprofit group that tracks hate speech
X Corp., the parent company of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court Monday against a nonprofit organization that monitors hate speech and disinformation, following through on a threat that had made headlines hours earlier. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District المزيد
College Board pushes back on Florida work group member who likened new Black history standards to AP curriculum
The College Board has refuted claims its Advanced Placement African American Studies course contains the same language as a contested standard in Florida’s new African American history curriculum that says middle schoolers should be taught that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” المزيد
Twitter threatens legal action against nonprofit group that monitors hate speech
X Corp., the parent company of the social media app formerly known as Twitter, sent a letter this month to a nonprofit organization that researches digital hate speech and misinformation, accusing the group of making a “series of troubling and baseless claims that appear calculated to harm Twitter generally, and المزيد
California man linked to white supremacist group arrested on drug and ammunition charges
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man who authorities say is affiliated with a violent white supremacist group was arrested on meth and ammunition charges Thursday, prosecutors said. Ryan Scott Bradford, 34, of the Reseda neighborhood of Los Angeles, is prohibited from having guns or ammunition because he is a المزيد
Most of Florida work group did not agree with controversial parts of state’s new standards for Black history, members say
A majority of the members of the Florida work group that developed new standards for teaching African American history opposed the sections that have recently drawn criticism, including that middle schoolers be instructed that enslaved people developed “skills” that could be used for their “personal benefit,” three members of the المزيد
Wagner Group poses security threat to the West, U.K. lawmakers say
The Wagner mercenary group whose leader led a short and abortive mutiny against Russia’s defense chiefs remains a serious security threat to the West and should be designated a terrorist outfit, a report from Britain’s Parliament said Wednesday. The report, “Guns for Gold: The Wagner network exposed,” is the result of المزيد
More than 40 million people in the U.S. live in urban heat islands, climate group finds
Climate Central researchers found that nine major cities — New York, Houston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, San Antonio, San Diego, Phoenix and Detroit — each housed at least 1 million people currently affected by the urban heat island effect. In New York City, the group reported that almost 80% of المزيد
Inside the Florida group pushing to slash food stamp rolls nationwide
“We’ve been hiding in plain sight all along,” Tarren Bragdon said of his 12-year-old nonprofit group, the Foundation for Government Accountability. The Naples, Florida-based think tank has been among the conservative groups publicly cheerleading GOP efforts to tighten work requirements for safety net programs long before debt ceiling negotiators in المزيد