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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. TikTok has agreed to settle a lawsuit over claims its app is harmful to children. NPR's Shannon Bond reports. Meta and Google's YouTube still face a jury trial starting today in Los Angeles.
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The case is among a wave of lawsuits accusing social media companies of deliberately hooking kids on their apps, leading to mental health problems. The plaintiff's lawyer told NPR terms of TikTok settlement with the teenage plaintiff in the case in California state court were confidential. Another defendant, Snapchat, reached its own undisclosed settlement last week. The outcome of a few trials, including the one in la, could help open the door to a wider settlement with more than a thousand individuals, school districts and state attorneys general suing the tech companies in state and federal court. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
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President Trump is rejecting calls to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after two US Citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis this month.
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I think she's doing a very good job. I think she's doing a very good job. The border is totally secure. You know, you forget we had a border that I inherited where millions of people were coming through. Now we have a border where no one is coming through.
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Trump addressing reporters before boarding Air Force One for a rally in Iowa. He is expected to attempt to refocus messaging to his handling of the US Economy. However, immigration still looms large. Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz says he and border czar Tom Homan have agreed to keep an open dialogue. After talking today. Walt says he wants significantly fewer federal agents in Minnesota and impartial investigations into the shootings in Minneapolis. Relatives of two men killed in an October strike off the coast of Venezuela are Now suing the U.S. government. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports. It's the first such case to land in an American federal court.
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Family members of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo say they were headed home on October 14th when a US missile struck their vessel. President Trump later said the kinetic strike killed all six men on board and tied them to the drug trade. But a new lawsuit says the men from Trinidad were fishermen doing farm work and that the US Violated international law and the Death on the High Seas Act. The wrongful death case filed in a Massachusetts court is asking for economic damages for the men's relatives, the lawsuit argues neither man presented an imminent threat to the US or anyone else. The Pentagon says it does not comment on pending litigation. Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
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The National Transportation Safety Board's holding a hearing today on the factors they believe led to the deadly mid air collision last year between a Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger jet above Washington, D.C. 67 people died last January. The Dow is down 442 points. You're listening to NPR News. Calls for boycotting the World cup in the US Appear to be gaining momentum in protest of President Trump's policies at home and abroad. Former FIFA president Sepplatter posts on X fans should stay away from the US he endorsed concerns raised by the attorney who investigated him for corruption during his tenure at FIFA. The international community has criticized President Trump's expansionist stance on Greenland travel bans and sweeping immigration operations, most notably involving the recent deaths of two American protesters in Minnesota. The US Is co hosting the World cup with Canada and Mexico in June. The United States has officially left the Paris Climate Agreement. NPR's Rebecca Hirsch reports. It is the second time the U.S. has pulled out of the deal.
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On his first day in office last year, President Trump announced that the US Would leave the landmark climate agreement. It took a little over a year to officially take effect because of a mandatory waiting period. More than 200 countries signed onto the deal, which requires each country to explore ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and address the impacts of a hotter planet. This is the second time the US has pulled out. President Trump did the same thing during his first term. President Biden brought the US Back into the agreement. Now the US Is out again. Global temperatures continue to rise. The past 11 years have been the 11 warmest ever recorded. Rebecca Hersher, NPR News.
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The Dow's down 450 points, or nearly 1%. The S&P is up 31 points. The Nasdaq has gained 229 points. This is NPR.
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