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    People are taking a chance on this. Will you?

    It’s National Take a Chance Day!

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    Student stabbed during fight in bathroom at Louisiana school

    A Hammond High School student was hospitalized and another was arrested after a stabbing on campus on Monday, April 22.

    • Kotaku

    Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data

    Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected to that repository have been banned and the company is considering legal action. According to an April 26 404 Media story, Spy Pet had been trawling roughly 14,000 Discord servers for a few months now, collecting tons of...

    • CHCH

    Trudeau takes aim at Poilievre for courting "conspiracy theorists"

    Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Official opposition leader Pierre Poilievre is among the top trends today, after videos surfaced that show him visiting demonstrators who seem to be associated with a far-right extremist group. According to reports, the group in question have been camped out on the east coast and protesting the carbon tax for almost a month. During a […]

    • KLFY

    Louisiana Legislature advances bill to protect IVF treatments

    A Louisiana lawmaker wants to put protections in place for doctors in Louisiana after the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos fertilized in IVF treatments that don’t become viable pregnancies could count as wrongful deaths.

  • Nordstrom CEO, President Aim to Take Company Private

    Nordstrom’s CEO Erik Nordstrom and President Pete Nordstrom have told the retailer’s board that they’re interested in taking the company private. As a result, the board has formed a special committee of independent and disinterested directors that will evaluate any proposals from those executives and from other parties, the company said in a Thursday (April 18) press release. The […]

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    What to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights

    Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people.

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    What to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights

    Several U.S. courts have ruled this week on state laws restricting the rights of transgender young people.

  • Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters

    Like many other multiplayer games, Overwatch 2 isn't immune from cheaters. And it's not only an issue on PC, where cheaters use tools like aimbots. Some folks use XIM devices so they can play with a keyboard and mouse (KBM) on consoles. This is against Blizzard's rules, as KBM players typically have an aim advantage over those who use a controller, even though the console versions of the game have features like aim assist. While it's taken some time to get the ball rolling, the developer is...

  • Russian poetry prize bans entries from transgender people

    LONDON — A Russian poetry competition has banned transgender people from submitting entries this year, in what it says is an effort to protect traditional values. The Andrei Dementyev All-Russian Poetry Prize, organized by the government of western Russia’s Tver region, accepts applications until late April from poets “regardless of citizenship, nationality, profession and place of residence.” But the competition explicitly bars “citizens who have changed their gender,” according to rules posted...

  • Ohio House could soon take up single-sex bathroom bill

    (The Center Square) – While a court weighs the legality of Ohio’s ban on transgender health care for minors and single-sex sports teams, the Ohio House could soon vote on a bill to require single-sex bathrooms in schools. The House is scheduled to meet again Wednesday and could take up House Bill 183, which would require all public schools, chartered nonpublic schools, educational service centers and colleges and universities to have specified bathrooms for exclusive use of...

  • Things to know as courts and legislatures act on transgender kids’ rights

    Most Republican-controlled states have now banned gender-affirming health care such as puberty blockers and hormones for transgender minors.