A school board meeting in California Thursday night included protesters chanting "Hail Satan!" in support of transgender athletes in girls sports. The Chino Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) board meeting in San Bernardino County featured opposing protesters delivering impassioned speeches on the issue, and many speeches cited biblical scripture. At one point, police escorted a woman who was there to oppose trans inclusion, citing the Bible, out of the meeting. Footage from the meeting shows several protesters there to support trans inclusion, chanting "Hail Satan!" CVUSD school board President Sonja Shaw condemned the protesters' chants. "Yes, public comments did include speakers saying, Hail Satan,'" the school district said in a statement.
Google is starting to have a monopoly on getting called out for having a monopoly. For the second time in under one year, the tech giant has been deemed to be operating an illegal monopoly, this time for its online advertising technology. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issued a 115-page ruling on Thursday that found Google violated antitrust laws to establish a firm hold over the online advertising space, allowing the company to charge higher prices and keep a larger portion of ad sales. In his ruling, Judge Brinkema said that Google was "willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power" over parts of the web advertising business by connecting its ad server business, DoubleClick, used by publishers to sell ads on their platforms, to its ad exchange operations, Google AdX, which sells ad space off auction-style to the highest bidder.
A researcher attributed the increase to awareness and improvements in detecting the developmental disorder. read more
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser has ordered what she called "extraordinary measures," including an immediate hiring freeze and a plan to furlough city employees and close government facilities, after House lawmakers failed to take up legislation that would fix a $1.1 billion hole in the District's budget before leaving on a two-week recess. The stunning circumstances " a slate of cost-cutting measures because of a budget crisis for D.C. caused by Congress " could lead to financial turmoil for an untold number of District residents who could be furloughed from city government jobs and, depending on which facilities city officials close, create gaps in services citywide for an unknown amount of time. read more
The man suspected of raping and killing Rachel Morin on the Ma & Pa Heritage Trail in August 2023 was found guilty after a nine day jury trial ended Monday. The jury deliberated for a little more than an hour before finding that Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was guilty of charges including pre-meditated murder and rape. Martinez-Hernandez, a Salvadoran native who illegally entered the United States in 2023, was arrested in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 2024, after investigators used DNA found on Morin's body to identify his family members, who provided police with information about him. He was charged with first-degree rape, first-degree murder and other charges relating to the death of the 37-year-old Bel Air mother of five who was reported missing by her boyfriend on Aug. 5, 2023, hours after she went for a walk on the trail in Bel Air.
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