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By TRÂN NGUYỄN SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California, home to some of the largest technology companies in the world, would be the first U.S. state to require mental health warning labels on social media sites if lawmakers pass a bill introduced Monday. The legislation sponsored by state Attorney General Rob Bonta is necessary to bolster safety for children online, supporters say, but industry officials vow to fight the measure and others like it under the First Amendment. Warning labels for social media gained swift bipartisan support from dozens of attorneys general, including Bonta, after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Congress to establish the requirements earlier this year, saying social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people. “These companies know the harmful impact their products can have on our children, and they refuse to take meaningful steps to make them safer,” Bonta said at a news conference Monday. “Time is up. It’s time we stepped in and demanded change.” State officials haven’t provided details on the bill, but Bonta said the warning labels could pop up once weekly. Up to 95% of youth ages 13 to 17 say they use a social media platform, and more than a third say that they use social media “almost constantly,” according to 2022 data from the Pew Research Center. Parents’ concerns prompted Australia to pass the world’s first law banning social media for children under 16 in November. “The promise of social media, although real, has turned into a situation where they’re turning our children’s attention into a commodity,” Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, who authored the California bill, said Monday. “The attention economy is using our children and their well-being to make money for these California companies.” Lawmakers instead should focus on online safety education and mental health resources, not warning label bills that are “constitutionally unsound,” said Todd O’Boyle, a vice president of the tech industry policy group Chamber of Progress. “We strongly suspect that the courts will set them aside as compelled speech,” O’Boyle told The Associated Press. Victoria Hinks’ 16-year-old daughter, Alexandra, died by suicide four months ago after being “led down dark rabbit holes” on social media that glamorized eating disorders and self-harm. Hinks said the labels would help protect children from companies that turn a blind eye to the harm caused to children’s mental health when they become addicted to social media platforms. “There’s not a bone in my body that doubts social media played a role in leading her to that final, irreversible decision,” Hinks said. “This could be your story.” Related Articles National News | Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation National News | ‘Polarization’ is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year National News | Supreme Court rejects appeal challenging Hawaii gun licensing requirements under Second Amendment National News | Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions National News | Supreme Court rejects Wisconsin parents’ challenge to school guidance for transgender students Common Sense Media, a sponsor of the bill, said it plans to lobby for similar proposals in other states. California in the past decade has positioned itself as a leader in regulating and fighting the tech industry to bolster online safety for children. The state was the first in 2022 to bar online platforms from using users’ personal information in ways that could harm children. It was one of the states that sued Meta in 2023 and TikTok in October for deliberately designing addictive features that keep kids hooked on their platforms. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, also signed several bills in September to help curb the effects of social media on children, including one to prohibit social media platforms from knowingly providing addictive feeds to children without parental consent and one to limit or ban students from using smartphones on school campus. Federal lawmakers have held hearings on child online safety and legislation is in the works to force companies to take reasonable steps to prevent harm. The legislation has the support of X owner Elon Musk and the President-elect’s son, Donald Trump Jr . Still, the last federal law aimed at protecting children online was enacted in 1998, six years before Facebook’s founding.Will Ja’Tavion Sanders Play in Week 13? NFL Injury Status, News & UpdatesThis was India’s warmest October in 123 years. It was also the month when Bengaluru got flooded, and cyclonic storm Dana ripped through three of Odisha’s districts, with damages pegged at ₹ 600 crore. Extreme and unseasonal weather events have dotted 10 months of 2024 before the countries in the world met in Baku, Azerbaijan, to discuss the climate crisis. Earlier, in the last leg of the monsoon, it felt like 52 degrees in Guwahati. Assam and parts of other northeastern states were hit by an unprecedented heat wave in September that claimed several lives and forced schools to shut, whereas, in the same period, neighbouring West Bengal bore the brunt of flooding in six districts. Remember, throughout January, there was not a flake of snow in Gulmarg and other places in Kashmir. This was followed by a hellish summer that saw a record number of heatwaves and heat-related deaths nationwide. Leh, a cold desert, was too hot for flights to take off. Delhi’s heat index touched 53°C, recording the longest heatwave streak, which lasted over a month (May 14-June 21). Similarly, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, and smart cities like Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Kota, Nashik, and Surat fell apart on a heavy rainy day. The tragedy in Wayanad, Kerala, and other heavy landslides in Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand should serve as a reminder that extreme weather is a harsh reality. And not just India, Australia experienced its hottest winter at 41.6°C, and Bandar-e Mahshahr, Iran, reported a heat index of 66.7°C in August. Mount Fuji remained snowless for the longest time, and flash floods in Spain and in the Sahara are grim reminders that we are drifting deeper into a climate catastrophe. The world experienced a new global record of unprecedented heat for a continuous 14 months, from June 2023-July 2024, when the Earth’s average temperature reached or exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial era. In all likelihood, the mean global temperature in 2024-2028 will exceed 1.5°C, undermining the 2015 iconic Paris Agreement pledge to try and keep temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Fossil fuels are toxic for the climate, and to stay below 1.5°C warming, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions need to be cut by 43% by 2030, which seems unlikely now with another failed climate conference. India rejected the $300-billion climate finance target pushed through by the developed nations, calling it an optical illusion. At the same conference, Haitham Al Ghais, the secretary general of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec), said crude oil and natural gas were “gifts from God”. A concrete plan to reduce emissions did not materialise, and may never happen as Donald Trump returns to the White House in 2025. Trump is likely to accelerate the production of fossil fuels and withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. Global climate talks began in 1991, but GHG emissions and global temperature have been rising faster than ever. GHG emissions are now at an all-time high with no signs of slowing down as governments acorss the world hop from one environment summit to another. Further, not a single target on climate, biodiversity, or sustainability has been met. Only the goalposts keep changing, with new jargon and timelines. An analysis of 1,500 climate policies (in force between 1998 and 2022) reveals that they have done little to prevent the acceleration of the climate crisis. The irony is despite all the talk on targets, clean energy, and the phasing out fossil fuels, the climate crisis is unfolding at a frantic pace. This year, domestic coal production rose by 5.79%, imports were up by 2.2%, while the country’s renewable energy capacity crossed 200 GW, on track to reach 500GW by 2030. But, according to Czech-Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil, energy transitions take decades, and not mere years; the promises of accelerated energy transitions in large economies will have a protracted realisation due to technical and infrastructural imperatives and unforeseen socioeconomic issues. At a three-day Oil and Gas Expo in December in Delhi, India’s role in future global oil and gas markets will be discussed, with the energy demand projected to double by 2050. Climate scientists are giving up hope. No one thinks limiting warming to 1.5°C is possible. It is time to look at smaller, more tangible targets for mitigation, such as cutting global food waste that itself is responsible for 10% of GHGs and managing urban waste. About 60% of India’s population will be living in cities by 2050. So, climate-resilient design and environmental sustainability in public infrastructure must be given emphasis. At the time the Baku talks were on, the Green Building Congress in Bengaluru slipped under the news radar: These events where “green” policy for infrastructure is discussed deserve better traction if we want a climate-resilient future. Chasing net zero will not help. Artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technology that we hope will help ameliorate our climate pains are energy guzzlers, and, at least as of now, energy is rarely green. For example, the growth of solar and wind energy means more mining for lithium, cobalt, copper, silver, nickel, and other minerals, which will leave its own massive carbon footprint and deplete forest cover, thereby affecting the planet’s carbon absorption capacity. Against such a backdrop, can we confidently say we will live to see 2070, the year India hopes to become net zero? While a third of our economy relies on nature, we can’t grow by exploiting the environment. We must have a Plan B, for there is no escape from extreme weather events turbocharged by the climate crisis: the excessive heat, rain (or the lack of it), and now the severe winter, signalled by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) due to La Niña. At this pace, 2024, the warmest year on record, will surpass the previous year as the year with the most number of days that saw extreme weather events in India. The number was 318 days out of 365 in 2023. Ananda Banerjee is an author, artist, and wildlife conservationist. The views expressed are personal
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Justin Kluivert became the first player to score a hat trick of penalties in a Premier League match in Bournemouth 's 4-2 win at Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday. Editor's Picks How clubs got their colors: a history of soccer's most iconic jerseys 10d From Bruno Fernandes to Man City: Who are the worst shooters in the Premier League? 11d Ryan O'Hanlon How VAR decisions have affected every Premier League club in 2024-25 5d Dale Johnson Bournemouth forward Evanilson also became the first player to win three penalties in a single Premier League fixture. Kluivert, who is the son of former Netherlands , Ajax and Barcelona legend Patrick , converted from the spot in the third, 18th and 74th minute of what was his 50th appearance for Bournemouth to help earn Andoni Iraola's side all three points at Molineux. "To go in the history books is amazing. Super happy with it," Kluivert said. The win provisionally moved Bournemouth up to 11th in the table, while Wolves dropped into the relegation zone. The 25-year-old joined Bournemouth from Roma in 2023. Meanwhile, Wolves boss Gary O'Neil expressed his "full support" for José Sá after the goalkeeper confronted angry fans at halftime of the team's defeat. Sá gave away two of the record three penalties converted by Kluivert after being tackled receiving back-passes. The Portuguese goalkeeper went to argue with irate fans who were subsequently removed from the stadium. O'Neil said he did not see the incident but offered his backing to Sá. "Situations like this that we're in has heightened emotions and responses," said O'Neil, who is under pressure with his team in 18th place. "José Sá has my full support. Whatever he needs from me he will get. The passes he received today he shouldn't have received. The first one he can clear much quicker, of course he can. None of the players have anything but my full support. We tackle this difficult situation together." Information from the Associated Press contributed to this report
India’s Biodiversity and Climate Commitment: A global model ignoredWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An online spat between factions of Donald Trump's supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump's movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump's Make America Great Again base who championed his hardline immigration policies. The debate touched off this week when Laura Loomer , a right-wing provocateur with a history of racist and conspiratorial comments, criticized Trump’s selection of Sriram Krishnan as an adviser on artificial intelligence policy in his coming administration. Krishnan favors the ability to bring more skilled immigrants into the U.S. Loomer declared the stance to be “not America First policy” and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves. Much of the debate played out on the social media network X, which Musk owns. Loomer's comments sparked a back-and-forth with venture capitalist and former PayPal executive David Sacks , whom Trump has tapped to be the “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar." Musk and Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government , weighed in, defending the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers. It bloomed into a larger debate with more figures from the hard-right weighing in about the need to hire U.S. workers, whether values in American culture can produce the best engineers, free speech on the internet, the newfound influence tech figures have in Trump's world and what his political movement stands for. Trump has not yet weighed in on the rift. His presidential transition team did not respond to questions about positions on visas for highly skilled workers or the debate between his supporters online. Instead, his team instead sent a link to a post on X by longtime adviser and immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller that was a transcript of a speech Trump gave in 2020 at Mount Rushmore in which he praised figures and moments from American history. Musk, the world's richest man who has grown remarkably close to the president-elect , was a central figure in the debate, not only for his stature in Trump's movement but his stance on the tech industry's hiring of foreign workers. Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions. But critics have said they undercut U.S. citizens who could take those jobs. Some on the right have called for the program to be eliminated, not expanded. Born in South Africa, Musk was once on an a H-1B visa himself and defended the industry's need to bring in foreign workers. “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent," he said in a post. “It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.” Trump's own positions over the years have reflected the divide in his movement. His tough immigration policies, including his pledge for a mass deportation, were central to his winning presidential campaign. He has focused on immigrants who come into the U.S. illegally but he has also sought curbs on legal immigration , including family-based visas. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program “very bad” and “unfair” for U.S. workers. After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a “Buy American and Hire American” executive order , which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers. Trump's businesses, however, have hired foreign workers, including waiters and cooks at his Mar-a-Lago club , and his social media company behind his Truth Social app has used the the H-1B program for highly skilled workers. During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country" and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in U.S. history. But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges. “I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country," he told the “All-In" podcast with people from the venture capital and technology world. Those comments came on the cusp of Trump's budding alliance with tech industry figures, but he did not make the idea a regular part of his campaign message or detail any plans to pursue such changes.
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Britt Baker says she’s done being polite. In a new interview with US Magazine , the former AEW Women’s World Champion spoke about her up-and-down year in 2024, which saw her deal with injuries and issues in her personal life but also land a role on Netflix’s Cobra Kai series. “I’m exhausted. I’m not going to be polite anymore. Leave me alone. Politeness is 2024. Everyone needs to be real and authentic, and the world will be a better place,” Baker said during the interview. When asked about her “roller coaster” of 2024, Baker responded: “Roller coaster is a good word but I also don’t think it’s appropriate, because with a roller coaster there’s a start and an end point. I can’t really say where the roller coaster started, and I definitely don’t know where it’s going to end.” Baker says she’s had to “mentally dig deep” this year not to be affected by her online critics. “You can’t ever believe what you read about yourself, whether it’s really good or really bad, or you’re going to end up medicated and sedated potentially,” Baker continued. “It’s tough because we live in a world where social media is so prominent. Social media fuels what we do, essentially.” “We rely on it. But man, is it toxic. It’s brutal. There’s a whole population of people on social media who just want to make you feel bad about yourself. It’s crazy we live in a world where that’s their mission. ‘I’m going to wake up today, tweet 10 mean tweets to Britt. I’m gonna take a lunch break. And then maybe I’ll do 10 more.’ It’s bizarre.” Baker, a longtime fan of Cobra Kai, the Netflix series spawned by The Karate Kid film franchise, plays a sensei in season six of the show. She says she landed the role after meeting one of the show’s writers and continuing to bug him about it. “I met one of the writers, Hayden (Schlossberg), and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m Britt,'” she recalled. “He recognized me from social media. I kind of joked, but not joking, ‘If you ever need anything, I’m a huge fan and would love to be involved.'” “Eventually, he called me and said, ‘You really have the Cobra Kai never say die attitude. If you’re interested, we have a role for you in mind and this is what it is,'” Baker continued. The show’s sixth season has been split into three parts. The final part of season six airs in February. While Baker appears in part two of season six, which is already on the streaming service, she says she’s waiting until the whole season is released before watching it. “I have to be honest, I haven’t even watched it yet,” she admitted. “I want to wait for all of it to come out so I can watch it all!”
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Washington, Nov 30 (PTI): US President-elect Donald Trump has met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where they discussed key bilateral issues, including trade, tariffs, border security, and drug trafficking. In a social media post on Friday, Trump described the meeting as "productive", highlighting Trudeau's commitment to address these issues. However, there was no indication of any resolution of the differences between the incoming US administration and the Canadian government. “I just had a very productive meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada, where we discussed many important topics that will require both countries to work together to address," Trump said. The topics include Fentanyl and drug crisis due to illegal immigration, fair trade deals that do not jeopardise American workers, and the massive trade deficit the US has with Canada, he said. Trump emphasised his administration's commitment to tackling the drug epidemic. “The US will no longer sit idly by as our citizens become victims to the scourge of this drug epidemic, caused mainly by drug cartels, and Fentanyl pouring in from China,” he said. “Too much death and hardship! Prime Minister Trudeau has made a commitment to work with us to end this terrible devastation of US families. We also spoke about many other important topics like energy, trade, and the Arctic. All are vital issues that I will be addressing on my first days back in office, and before,” Trump said. According to The New York Times newspaper, the dinner meeting between the two leaders on Friday included senior Canadian officials and Trump’s close aides. Prominent among them were North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump's nominee for interior secretary; Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary; and Mike Waltz, his choice for national security adviser. PTI LKJ SCY SCY (This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)
4 classic cars that will never go out of styleShiffrin, already the owner of the most World Cup victories in history, was poised to claim a once unimaginable century after topping the first-run times. She looked on course for the win when she crashed heavily in the second leg and Sweden's Olympic gold medaallist Hector emerged with the victory with a total of 1min 53.08sec. Shiffrin, whose mistake rounding a turn caused her to lose her balance and slide through a gate, lost one ski and careened into the catch-fencing. She was taken from the course on a sled, offering a wave to fans on her way. The extent of any possible injuries she might have suffered was not immediately known. "Mikaela took the sled down and is currently being evaluated," USA Ski & Snowboard said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter. "More info to come, but take solace in the fact that she asked about her splits." Shiffrin, 29, already has 13 more World Cup wins than the most successful man, Ingemar Stenmark, and 17 more than the second woman, compatriot Lindsey Vonn. Needing three wins to hit 100 to start the season, she bagged her 98th and 99th career titles with back-to-back slalom wins in Levi, Finland, and Gurgl, Austria. That gave her a chance to complete her century in front of home fans in Killington, not far from where she attended Burke Mountain Academy as a youngster. Shiffrin -- who has won six slaloms at Killington but never a giant slalom -- was greeted by ecstatic cheers as she crossed the finish line of the first leg atop the times. She was 17-hundredths of a second ahead of Hector after the second sector of her second run. But her day ended not in celebration but in the 21st "Did Not Finish" in her 274 career starts. Vonn, who has just announced plans to come out of retirement, posted on social media: "Hope @MikaelaShiffrin is OK." Hector was delighted with her win, while sympathetic to Shiffrin. "I'm very happy, after going through a difficult period," she said. "Obviously, I'm very sad for Mikaela who was skiing so well. "I saw her fall. My heart goes out to her," she added. Croatia's Zrinka Ljutic finished second, 54-hundredths of a second behind Hector, and Switzerland's Camille Rast was third, 1.05 seconds back. The women are scheduled to race a slalom on Sunday. bb