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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities were a violation of federal law.The complaint filed in federal court in Oregon says the department is attempting to force the states to “rewrite sexual health curricula to erase entire categories of students” and describes the action as “the latest attempt from the current administration to target and harm transgender and gender-diverse youth.”HHS did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.Since…
2025-09-26T20:44:15Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. TikTok is expected to sell its US assets to a consortium of investors, companies, and wealthy individuals. Trump listed Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Rupert Murdoch, and Michael Dell as involved in the deal. ByteDance, TikTok’s global parent, is expected to maintain a minority stake in the US business. Who’s grabbing…
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Even though he’s in a hole at the Ryder Cup, American captain Keegan Bradley is sticking with the same lineup, with only one tweak. And European captain Luke Donald isn’t changing a thing.The Americans will play seven of the same eight players for Saturday’s opening alternate-shot matches as played in the morning on Day 1, when they walked off the course with a 3-1 deficit. The Europeans will run it back with all four of their teams. Bradley is calling on Bryson DeChambeau to open the action, same as he did Friday, but will pair him…
A Truth Social post shared by President Donald Trump on Sept. 26 provided multiple pieces of vaccine advice that do not align with his administration’s recent recommendations, potentially creating confusion for families navigating healthcare questions.The post, which a statement to USA TODAY from the White House says represents the president’s personal opinion, echoes Trump’s earlier assertions that link Tylenol (acetaminophen) to autism, recommends that the MMR vaccine be given in “three totally separate shots,” the chickenpox vaccine be administered separately, and that the hepatitis B vaccine only be given to children aged 12 years old or older. The president also…
TikTok is getting closer to spinning off its US business, and employees have questions about what that actually means for their jobs.On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order blessing the sale of TikTok US to an investor group. Two TikTok employees said they’d seen a link to the executive order posted internally, but as of Friday afternoon, no company-wide memos had followed.The situation has left some employees wondering who their ultimate boss would be if the deal goes forward and what would happen to their stock options in ByteDance, TikTok’s current parent company. Some ask: Could there be…
Silicon Valley flooded the news this week with headlines about wild AI infrastructure investments. Nvidia said it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. Then OpenAI said it would build out five more Stargate AI data centers with Oracle and Softbank, adding gigawatts of new capacity online in the coming years. And it was later revealed that Oracle sold $18 billion in bonds to pay for these data centers. On their own, each deal is dizzying in scale. But in aggregate, we see how Silicon Valley is moving heaven and Earth to give OpenAI enough power to train and…
Federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product sent to the U.S. from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. The discovery adds to questions about the source of the unusual problem.U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials last week blocked import of all spices from PT Natural Java Spice of Indonesia after federal inspectors detected cesium 137 in a shipment of cloves sent to California.That follows the import alert imposed in August on the company PT Bahari Makmuri Sejati, or BMS foods, which sends millions of pounds of shrimp to the U.S.…
YouTube Music is testing AI music hosts that provide relevant stories, fan trivia, and commentary about what you’re listening to, the company announced on Friday. The move comes two years after Spotify launched an AI DJ that delivers a curated selection of music alongside AI-powered spoken commentary about the tracks and artists you like. YouTube Music’s new feature builds on its ongoing experiments with conversational AI. In July, the service rolled out an AI conversational radio feature that lets users create a custom radio station by describing what they want to hear. YouTube Music’s new AI hosts are currently being…
Shane Tamura had CTE in his brain, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.Tamura shot and killed four people in a Manhattan office building before shooting himself.He left behind a note saying “Please study brain for CTE” and criticized the NFL.The man who shot and killed four people in a New York City office building in July before killing himself had CTE in his brain, according to the New York City medical examiner’s office.Shane Tamura, who carried out the shooting at 345 Park Avenue on July 28, left behind a three-page handwritten note that said “Please study brain…
At a Senate hearing on Sept. 9, 2025, on the corruption of science, witnesses presented an unpublished study that made a big assertion.They claimed that the study, soon to be featured in a highly publicized film called “An Inconvenient Study,” expected out in early October 2025, provides landmark evidence that vaccines raise the risk of chronic diseases in childhood.The study was conducted in 2020 by researchers at Henry Ford Health, a health care network in Detroit and southeast Michigan. Before the Sept. 9 hearing the study was not publicly available, but it became part of the public record after the…