A mixed ruling from the Texas Supreme Court has both transgender advocates and the state’s attorney general declaring victory. The ruling concerns the parents of a 16-year-old girl who sued the state after being contacted by child welfare officials. They were among the first to be contacted after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) directed the Texas…

Elon Musk tweeted that his deal to buy and take over Twitter is “temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.” In the Friday tweet, Musk linked a Reuters report from earlier this month. The report focused on a Twitter quarterly report that estimated false or…

Congress will hold an open hearing on UFOs for the first time in decades next week. The session before a House committee will come five months after the National Defense Authorization Act required the military to establish a permanent UFO research office. “Congress hasn’t held a public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UFO’s) in over…

Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter has been trending from the moment the world’s richest man initially made the offer. Musk has discussed several ways in which he hopes to change the social media company, even as the White House discusses overhauling Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and the ACLU raises concerns about…

For the first time since March 2021, the S&P 500 closed below 4,000 points. The index lost 132.1 points or 3.20% Monday, falling to 3,991.24. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 653.67 points, or 1.99%, to 32,245.7. And in the largest drop, the Nasdaq Composite dropped 521.41 points, or 4.29%, to 11,623.25. The energy sector…

Russian President Vladimir Putin is using the 77th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender to Soviet forces to rally support for his war in Ukraine. May 9 is Victory Day in Russia and Putin is drawing comparisons between World War II and his current invasion during annual celebrations.  During a speech in Moscow’s Red Square, President…

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaska announced on Twitter that he has submitted his letter of his resignation to his brother, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Monday’s resignation came after weeks of protests over the country’s worst economic crises in decades. “We are here to protect our country from the Rajapaksas who have dragged this…

The biggest tech deal in history is at risk over increased scrutiny by antitrust enforcers within the Federal Trade Commission, led by a 33-year-old legal scholar and prominent Big Tech critic. Chair Lina Khan has in her crosshairs Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, and it’s not her only target. The agency is also…

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry announced on Twitter that 18 aircraft from China’s People’s Liberation Army flew into its air defense zone. The ministry said aircraft included six Chinese J-11 fighters, six J-16 fighters and two H-6 bombers. The bombers, accompanied by a Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft, flew to the south of Taiwan through the Bashi Channel. The…

In perhaps the most notable result of Tuesday night’s primary elections in Ohio in Indiana, author and former investment banker JD Vance won the Republican primary for Senate in Ohio. The video includes clips from his victory speech. Vance won the primary with 32.20% of the vote, according to Ohio’s elections website. That total bested…