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The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Friday morning on whether to overturn or delay a law that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. in the coming days.

The law is set to take effect on Jan. 19, nine months after it swiftly passed Congress with bipartisan support and was signed into law by President Biden. It requires the widely popular app to cut ties with its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or lose access to app stores and web-hosting services in the U.S. The law also gives the president the ability to grant a 90-day delay in its implementation if a sale is in progress.

The case pits the First Amendment’s right to free speech against what the federal government and lawmakers say are threats to national security posed by TikTok. The Supreme Court moved with extraordinary speed in considering the case, agreeing to take up the dispute just two days after lawyers for the platform sought its intervention on an emergency basis.

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Dramatic video footage showed an alleged pedophile doctor being arrested by a fleet of police while driving with his stunned wife and mother-in-law.

Dr Stephen Andrew Leedy was arrested December 19 over claims he got children to sent him sex images and helped one girl kill herself, with bodycam footage of that apprehension shared Tuesday.

Officers had been on the look out for the 59-year-old palliative care specialist after a warrant for his arrest was issued in his home state of Florida.

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The Republican-led House passed its first bill of the new Congress on Tuesday — a strict border measure named for a 22-year-old Georgia nursing school student whose murder last year by an immigrant in the country illegally became a flashpoint in the presidential campaign.

The 264-159 vote to pass the Laken Riley Act puts pressure on Senate Democrats to support the legislation when Republicans, who now control the upper chamber, bring it to the floor for an initial vote Friday, which would have been Riley’s 23rd birthday.

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The family of a 13-year-old from Pennsylvania who died in August is now speaking out about what led to his death — and is sending a precaution to other families.

The family stated in a post on Friday that Levi Maciejewski, son of Shippensburg University head football coach Mark Maciejewski, had been the victim of “sextortion,” which ultimately led to his untimely death.

Levi’s death was the result of a heinous and rapidly growing crime known as ‘sextortion.’ An online predator coerced, threatened, and blackmailed him, leading to devastating consequences,” according to the statement.

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Scrolling on your phone for too long could leave people at higher risk of debilitating migraines, a new study has found.

Researchers from Taiyuan Central Hospital in China found that extended phone use was one of two habits associated with increased risk of the painful headache condition – along with eating large amounts of poultry.

Drinking coffee, and consuming oily fish such as mackerel and tuna, on the other hand, were associated with a lower risk.

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A New Jersey law that removes a requirement for teachers to pass a reading, writing, and mathematics test for certification went into effect on January 1^st, 2025.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) signed the law in June 2024.

The law, Act 1669, cleared the state Senate in a 34-2 vote as part of the state’s 2025 budget.

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A 32-year-old was arrested after being accused of assaulting a 13-year-old in Michigan, officials said. The teen’s mom went to check on her daughter and when she walked into the room she saw the window open and the screen popped off, according to a Dec. 30 post by Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson on the sheriff’s office Facebook page.

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Combatting human trafficking of minors involves knowing how this population is uniquely vulnerable. Unlike adult victims, minors have less freedom—the ability to leave home, travel, or make adult decisions—including whether or not someone they meet is safe to spend time with. Traffickers exploit this naiveté through strategic impression managementand interpersonal charm, promising freedom but forcing submission through both physical and emotional bondage.

Initially, however, among the powerful strategies of seduction traffickers use to lure and ensnare victims, is the selective attention they use to beguile young people as well as their families. Unaware of their malevolent intentions, parents may view them as positive “role models” in the lives of their children—who are uniquely susceptible to adult influence. And when it comes to romantic relationships, teenagers have less life experience to determine appropriate relational boundaries. This is especially true if they are being raised in abusive homes or within exploitive relationships—circumstances that investigators and advocates can recognize if they know what to look for.

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