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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Transgender people born in Kansas could be prevented from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities if the state’s conservative Republican attorney general is successful with a legal move he launched late Friday.Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a request in federal court asking a judge to end a requirement for Kansas to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates. He is not seeking to undo past changes, only prevent them going forward. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree imposed the requirement in 2019 to settle a lawsuit filed by four transgender Kansas residents against three state health department officials. The suit challenged a policy that critics said prevented transgender people from making changes even after transitioning, legally changing their names and obtaining new driver’s licenses and Social Security cards.Luc Bensimon, a Black transgender activist who was one of the plaintiffs in that lawsuit, said Saturday he was already getting calls and emails from people trying to change their birth certificates who are concerned they won’t be able to complete the process.  » Read More

USCG said Erick Gaunt was reported missing while diving and was last seen wearing a black wetsuit with yellow and white tanks. By NBC6 • Published June 24, 2023 • Updated on June 24, 2023 at 4:48 pm David McNew/Getty Images Crews from the United States Coast Guard are searching for a diver who went missing Saturday in the waters off Deerfield Beach. USCG said Erick Gaunt was reported missing while diving and was last seen wearing a black wetsuit with yellow and white tanks. #BREAKING @USCG air & surface crews are searching for Erick Gaunt, a white man in his 30s, reported missing while diving off #DeerfieldBeach. Gaunt was last seen wearing a black wetsuit with yellow & white tanks. Contact Sector Miami if you have any info at 305-535-4472 pic.twitter.com/OxpxhBKtd8— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) June 24, 2023 Air and surface crews are taking part in the search at this time. Anyone with information is asked to call the USCG Sector Miami and 305-535-4472.  » Read More

Facebook said Friday that tinkering with the Online News Act through regulations would not be enough to stop it blocking access to news in Canada, but people in the United States, Britain and other countries would still be able to read Canadian stories on the platform.Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said this week that it plans to follow through with its threat to end millions of Canadians’ ability to access and share news on both platforms, as Bill C-18 gained royal assent.But people living outside Canada would not be subject to the same blocks on accessing or sharing news as people living here, Facebook said. When the restrictions take effect, Canadian news outlets would still be able to post links and content on the platform, but some would not be viewable in Canada.This would mean that a resident of Niagara Falls in New York would be able to read Facebook posts by Canadian news organizations such as The Globe and Mail, while those living across the border in Niagara Falls,  » Read More

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  The grave of a girl who lived more than 1,300 years ago in Great Britain continues to intrigue and baffle scientists and historians. She was ceremoniously laid to rest with a gold and garnet-encrusted cross, and her burial site was uncovered more than a decade ago. Now, researchers have reconstructed the face of this Anglo-Saxon girl — who was unearthed south of Cambridge near the English village of Trumpington in 2012 — as they continue to unlock her mysteries. The remains of the teen, who died around the age of 16, according to researchers, presented striking questions: Where did she come from? Why was she given a bed burial, a custom typically associated with high-status women of the era? And how did she die? “Personally, it’s really satisfying and strangely emotional to see the face of someone you’ve been studying for years,  » Read More

Meta announced that it would block access to news posts on its platforms in Canada after the country passed Bill C-18, or the Online News Act, a law that would require tech companies to pay media outlets a fee for news content. "We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada," the parent company of Facebook and Instagram said in a statement.The new law is just one part of a "broad and contentious effort" by the government to "regulate the digital sphere and circumscribe the power of tech giants," The Washington Post reported. Last year, another law requiring streaming platforms to promote Canadian content to users in Canada drew similar criticism from the companies. Governments around the world are considering similar proposals aimed at sustaining "floundering news industries" by requiring social media companies to figure out how to compensate media organizations for the content circulating on their platforms.  » Read More

Yesterday's news — A small percentage of Canadian Facebook users is already losing access to news. Ashley Belanger - Jun 23, 2023 2:53 pm UTC Yesterday, Canada passed its Online News Act, which requires tech companies to negotiate content deals with news publishers and pay news outlets for links shared on their platforms. As Meta threatened back in March, it promptly announced yesterday that it will be quickly ending news access on Facebook and Instagram in response to the law, Reuters reported. "Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada prior to the Online News Act taking effect," Meta's statement said. According to The New York Times, it's still unclear when Canada's law will take effect, but Meta's statement makes it sound like Meta plans to cut off news as quickly as it can. Meta claims that news has no value to either the tech giant or to users who do not go to Facebook and Instagram to consume news.  » Read More

Civil liberties advocates have lashed the New South Wales Labor government’s attempts to stop climate activists from livestreaming protests on Facebook.Members of Blockade Australia have this week staged and streamed protests across the country, including along a train line that services the Newcastle coal port.The premier, Chris Minns, announced via the Daily Telegraph on Thursday that he would request a meeting with the social media giant, alongside police, to see what they can do to “stop the broadcast of illegal acts”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup “Their business model relies on social media to broadcast their protest,” he said of the Blockade Australia protesters.“These thrill demonstrators are putting lives at risk – both their own and those of emergency service and police.“I don’t want to see a situation where there’s a death broadcast on social media.”The opposition supported the idea,  » Read More

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PHILADELPHIA -- Two years after a former Gettysburg College student finally saw charges filed over her 2013 campus sexual assault, the man suspected of sending her a Facebook message that said, “ So I raped you,” remains on the run. Shannon Keeler, 28, and her attorneys question how Ian T. Cleary has avoided capture in an age when people are tracked by their cellphones, internet connections, security cameras and credit card purchases. Investigators, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, believe the 30-year-old from Silicon Valley is likely overseas and on the move.“How is he financially supporting himself? How is he able to travel abroad without detection? Has he assumed a false identity?” asked Andrea Levy, legal director of the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, who represents Keeler. “Who’s helping him?”Keeler was sexually assaulted on a snowy December night in her dorm room. She texted friends for help even before he fled, and went to police the same day.For years, local officials declined her pleas to file charges,  » Read More

Editor’s note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  The submersible vehicle currently lost at sea is part of a relatively new effort enabling tourists and other paying customers to explore the depths of the ocean, the vast majority of which has never been seen by human eyes. Though people have been exploring the ocean’s surface for tens of thousands of years, only about 20% of the seafloor has been mapped, according to 2022 figures from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Researchers often say that traveling to space is easier than plunging to the bottom of the ocean. While 12 astronauts have spent a collective total of 300 hours on the lunar surface, only three people have spent around three hours exploring Challenger Deep, the deepest known point of Earth’s seabed, according to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. In fact,  » Read More