Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, will open its virtual reality app Horizon Worlds to teens with protections in place to help keep minors safe, the company said Tuesday The expansion of Horizon Worlds to users aged 13 to 17 by Meta comes after pushback from kids’ online safety advocates and a two...
A group of four U.S. citizens and three Russian nationals have been charged in connection to an investigation into a foreign influence campaign. The Justice Department (DOJ) said in a release on Tuesday that a federal grand jury issued a superseding indictment against the individuals, alleging they were working on behalf of the Russian government...
Rising seas and increased flooding may have helped chase Viking colonists out of Greenland, a new study has found. The study offers a new explanation to a medieval mystery: why Viking settlements on the doorstep of North America failed on the eve of European contact with the continent’s peoples. In the new account, rising seas...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday laid out his opening salvo for a go-it-alone debt limit increase bill he hopes will bring President Biden to the negotiating table — but first, he has to wrangle members of his own conference. With just a four-member majority and a still-unfinished bill, Republican leaders' push for a...
The Missouri House voted Monday to set limits on transgender student athletes in grade 6 through college from playing on the same team as other girls and women.
Gun safety demonstrators were blocked from bringing caskets inside Tennessee’s Capitol as they protested. A legislator carried an infant-sized casket inside before he was stopped.
Donald Trump fired at Ron DeSantis Tuesday over the governors battle with Disney and squatters in the sunshine state illegally taking over small business landlords.
Lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced new legislation that would ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks while in office.
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona repeatedly refused to define "woman" or definitively explain the extent of "equal access" for transgender students during a committee hearing Tuesday.
Nancy Pelosi's campaign gave an Illinois man $7,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging that her campaign had violated federal laws against robocalls and text messages.