Maria Raine, center, holds a photo of her son, Adam Raine, while listening to speakers between Assemblymembers Josh Lowenthal, left, and Rebecca Bauer-Kahan at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, on Sept. 10, 2026, in Sausalito, Calif. Adam died by suicide last year, after being “coached” by a chatbot. A new set of laws in California aim to protect children from social media and AI chatbot risks.
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., on Aug. 25, 2026. Meta, Instagram's parent company, has agreed to a $17 billion settlement with 47 states to end a trial over teens' social media addiction.
A photo taken at Omaha, Neb., police headquarters on Aug. 14, 2026, shows a technology known as Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter, or G.L.O.V.E. Photo by Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via Getty Images. Police in the city agreed this week to stop carrying the gloves, which can deliver electric shocks, while working in schools in Nebraska’s largest public school district.
A child receives a vaccination while her mom holds and comforts her at Larchmont Pediatrics in Los Angeles on March 25, 2025. New federal data show that U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high.
A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state’s public schools to display the Ten Commandments.
People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. States seeking extensive financial damages from the company as a lawsuit goes to trial this week.
A text book, shown Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 in Washington, to be used by the Pentagon this fall when it will begin implementing a curriculum that centers on Western civilization and Christianity in the schools it operates for military families, part of an effort by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to redirect the education system toward patriotic values and classical learning.
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department on Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. A new study examined the degree to which school absences surged during a measles outbreak earlier this year in West Texas.
President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference July 11, 2024, on the final day of the NATO summit in Washington. He announced Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as his replacement for the Democratic nomination.
Former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents after being struck by gunfire at a campaign rally, Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. The day after the attempted assasination of the Republican nominee for president, Trump arrived in Milwaukee ahead of the start of the Republican National Convention and President Joe Biden gave a prime-time address, saying "politics must never be a literal battlefied. God forbid, a killing field."
Ms. Kaiser, a teacher from The Earth School, holds a sign in solidarity with other teachers who are speaking out on issues related to a lack of COVID-19 testing for students on Dec. 21 in New York.
