Florida Lays Out Plan To Protect Kids From Social Media
(Tallahassee, FL)-- The state of Florida is working on a plan to keep kids off social media. Attorney General Ashley Moody released a list of ways officials plan to enforce a new state law that's designed to prevent children under the age of 16 from creating social media accounts. The measure would also ban minors from having access to online pornography sites. One of the three proposed rules states that a willful disregard of a person's age is a reckless violation of the state restrictions. A hearing could take place before the rules are finalized.
Jacksonville Lawmaker Opens Bookstore With Banned Literature
(Jacksonville, FL)-- A Northeast Florida lawmaker is fighting back against efforts to remove certain books from school libraries. State Representative Angie Nixon opened a Northwest Jacksonville bookstore earlier this month to sell books that are banned in the state. Café Resistance has literature featuring untold stories from a variety of diverse authors. Nixon told News4Jax that the bookstore is in response to inaccurate teachings of African American and Black history across the state's public school system. She also wants to address literacy rates in Duval County by offering several shelves of free books.
NASA's Artemis Moon Booster Delivered To Space Coast
(Cape Canaveral, FL)-- A crucial piece of equipment designed to help send humans on a trip around the moon is finally in Florida's Space Coast. The core stage booster for NASA's Space Launch System rocket arrived by barge to Brevard County yesterday. The machinery started its nine-hundred-mile journey from New Orleans, last week. It's currently docked at the Kennedy Space Center, but is expected to move to an assembly building today. The stage booster is part of the upcoming Artemis II mission which is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral no earlier than September of next year.
Sharks Testing Positive For Cocaine
(Rio de Janeiro)-- Sharks off the Brazilian coast are testing positive for cocaine. Biologists tested 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks in the waters near Rio de Janeiro and found concentrations 100 times higher than previously found. It's not exactly clear how the sharks are coming in contact with cocaine, but theories include that it could be from labs where it's manufactured or the excrement of cocaine users. The findings were published this week in "Science of the Total Environment."
Today in History
2019, Facebook paid a five-billion-dollar fine to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for violating consumer privacy.
1978, New York Yankees manager Billy Martin was fired by team owner George Steinbrenner. He was later rehired, then fired, then rehired, then fired.
1974, the Supreme Court ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to prosecutors investigating the Watergate scandal.