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Florida Attorney General James Usmieyer has launched legal action against SnapChat’s parent company, Snap Inc., alleging violations of the 2024 state law designed to protect minors from addictive social media practices. The lawsuit filed in Santa Rosa County Circuit Court argues that Snapchat features (including endless scrolling, autoplay videos, push notifications, disappearing messages, etc.) are intentionally designed to attract young users and thereby undermine mental health.The provisions of House Bill 3 (HB 3) prohibit children under the age of 14 from creating social media accounts, but children aged 14 and 15 require parental consent. The complaint alleges that Snapchat was…

Kimberly Palmer, Neldwallet The investment information provided on this page is for educational purposes only. Nerdwallet, Inc. does not provide advisory or intermediary services, nor does it recommend or advise investors to buy or sell certain stocks, securities or other investments. On Reddit, users recently sought budgeting advice. After itemizing the current budget, users were hoping to find ways to reduce monthly spending and save more money. Users said they brought just $3,300 in a month and spent about $2,600 on fixed costs like rent and insurance, along with groceries and entertainment line items. The rest was for debt payments…

By Bernard Condon, Associated Press business writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration is loosening rules to help automakers like Elon Musk’s Tesla develop self-driving cars and take on Chinese rivals. US companies developing self-driving vehicles will be granted exemptions from certain federal safety regulations for testing purposes, the Department of Transport said Thursday. The department also said it would streamline crash reporting requirements, including autonomous driving software that masks criticized as troublesome, and move towards a single national rule on technology to replace a patchwork of state regulations. “We are in a race that has been breached from…

Jensen Beach, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida judge appears on the other side of the courtroom after a traffic stop was arrested earlier this week. Florida’s 19th Judicial Circuit Judge Brett Wallonicki in Fort Pierce was arrested Wednesday on charges of DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia. “Buldosing and Erase of History”: A more unmarked grave detected in Tropicana Fields Deputies for the Martin County Sheriff’s Office swiveled the Ford F-150 in the lane, hit the fog line and bike lane several times before passing through the roundabout without a light at around 10:41pm on NW Jensen Beach Boulevard. When…

The State Department says it will deny tourist visas to individuals who give birth primarily for their children and travel primarily to the United States to gain citizenship.The US State Department issued a warning Thursday to foreigners planning to acquire US citizenship for their children through “birth tourism.”The State Department said tourist visas would be denied by people traveling to the country for the main purpose of giving birth to US soil.“It is not acceptable for foreign parents to use US tourist visas for the primary purpose of giving birth in the US to gain citizenship in the US, which…

After successfully testing from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station last December, the Army officially named its long-range hypersonic weapon, the Dark Eagle, on Thursday. The system, designed to “disintegrate enemy abilities,” was on it again on Friday morning. LRHW Dark Eagle lift-off this morning🚀https://t.co/lcjhuxxt84 pic.twitter.com/yjxxusxmjk – Jerrypike (@jerrypikephoto) April 25, 2025 Images posted on social media showed missile launches from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 46, but the eastern range posted a notification of maritime and airspace maintenance, but no mission details were announced. “A team of government, academic and industry partners conducted tests on behalf of the Department of Defense…

ORLANDO, Fla. (WFLA) – A former Disney World employee has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for hacking into Walt Disney World’s computer systems to manipulate menu information. In July 2024, Disney noticed former employee Michael Scheuer and accessed the menu system after it was closed from the company a month ago. Scheuer, who worked as a “menu product manager” at Disney, was accused of hacking the system for over three months and manipulating the menu in a variety of ways, including changing prices, adding blasphemy and changing allergen information. According to NBC affiliate WESH, the judge sentenced…

MIAMI (AP) — As hundreds of migrants crowded into the Krome Detention Center in Miami on the edge of the Florida Everglades, a palpable fear of an uprising set in among its staff. As President Donald J. Trump sought to make good on his campaign pledge of mass arrests and removals of migrants, Krome, the United States’ oldest immigration detention facility and one with a long history of abuse, saw its prisoner population recently swell to nearly three times its capacity of 600. “There are 1700 people here at Krome!!!!,” one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement employee texted a co-worker last month,…

Republican leaders at Hillsdale, Austin and Harvard University are divided from a left-leaning culture.Senator JD Vance at the time said in 2021 that “universities are their enemy.” The language borrowed from President Richard Nixon foresaw a growing battle through the launch of the Second Trump Administration.President Donald Trump’s team has frozen or reduced taxpayer-funded research, pressuring universities to close diversity, equity and inclusion offices and curb anti-Semitism on campuses that have been linked to anti-Israel protests.The administration calls protests and some academic programs anti-Semitism, but many of the academics defend them on the grounds of freedom of speech.After Harvard refused…

Hillsboro County, Fla. (WFLA) – Starting Friday night, busy roads in the Riverview area will be closed for the next three weeks. Things along Boyette Road look different as the Florida Department of Transport continues its massive restoration project. The lane begins a shutdown at Boyette Road at the intersection of US 301. “It’s a $205 million project, most of which is converting the asphalt-to-concrete intersection, with lots of truck traffic, concrete is more durable, and another part of the project is resurfaced with a larger section of the US 301.” This section is located at 301 from Whit Road…