Gaza: Death Toll in Israeli Attacks Since ‘Ceasefire Deal’ Has Reached 1,200

Meta Settles With US States For $16.7 Billion Over Social Media Harms To Children Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement to resolve a landmark claim brought by several states that the company designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children, improperly collected children's personal data, and misled consumers about their safety.  The deal was in a Wednesday court filing in California after a lawsuit was brought by 29 states - with attorneys for  Colorado, California, New Jersey and Kentucky - leading the group. The states argued that features like infinite scroll were purposely engineered...

New Orders Drop But US Manufacturing Surveys Still Signal 'Solid' Growth In August Despite sustained relative weakness in US 'hard data', US manufacturing operating conditions improved solidly again in August, according to the latest PMI data from S&P Global, but it's not all rainbows and unicorns... August S&P Global US Manufacturing PMI beat, flat at 53.9 from July's print, but up from the flash print of 53.2 and better than the 53.4 expected. August ISM US Manufacturing PMI miss, down from 55.6 to 54.6 (below 55.2 expectations). Still, despite the miss, ISM still...

Scottish Court Rules Against Biological Males Being Held In Women's Prisons Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a major ruling in Scotland where a court declared that it is generally unlawful to house a transgender biological male in a women’s prison. The decision follows the ruling of the top UK court that a woman is defined by her biological gender at birth. The timing is notable as we await a couple of transgender rulings from our own Supreme Court this week. The decisions also highlight the anomaly of police continuing to...