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Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The City of New York on Wednesday sued the companies behind SnapChat, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, accusing them of fomenting a "nationwide youth mental health crisis" by exposing children "to a nonstop stream of harmful content." The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, alleged the companies intentionally designed their platforms to purposefully manipulate and addict children and teens to social media applications. The lawsuit po...

Kali9/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Kenyan police have arrested two people they believe helped a man escape custody as he was awaiting extradition for allegedly killing his girlfriend in the U.S. last year. In addition to announcing the arrests, Amin Mohammed Ibrahim, chief of Kenyas Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said Tuesday they have made progress in their search for Kevin Kangethe. "Its unfortunate that after we made laborious efforts to apprehend him that through circumstances yet t...

Cooper Neill/Getty ImagesThree-time Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce is adding film producer to his resume. Kelce is using President Joe Biden’s renewable energy tax credits to finance My Dead Friend Zoe, Variety reports. The indie film is headed to the SXSW festival and stars Natalie Morales, Ed Harris, Morgan Freeman and Sonequa Martin-Green. This marks Kelce’s first foray into the film industry. He’ll serve as an executive producer on the dark comedy movie. My Dead Friend Zo...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(WICHITA, Kan.) -- A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the theft and destruction of a statue of baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was stolen from a Kansas park last month, authorities announced on Tuesday. The statue was discovered missing from McAdams Park in Wichita on Jan. 25, with Robinsons feet the only part that remained. Pieces of the statue were found days later, on Jan. 30, in a burning trash can in Garvey Park, authorities said. A suspec...

Ilbusca/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pet owner has caught a rare case of the bubonic plague, health officials in central Oregon say, and its believed they may have caught it from their cat. The Deschutes County Health Services confirmed the case of the plague in a local resident last week. The resident was likely "infected by their symptomatic pet cat," health officials said in a Feb. 7 press release. "All close contacts of the resident and their pet have been contacted and provide...

FG Trade/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of a "limited number" of Dole-branded and private label salad kits due to potential cross contamination with cheeses recalled for possible listeria contamination. A company recall notice posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website and Doles company website states that the salad kits were recalled because they were processed on the same line as a cheese product from Rizo-Lopez Foo...

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An Alaska resident has died from complications of a relatively new and rare virus known as Alaskapox, according to a bulletin posted by Alaska state public health officials.   The Alaskapox virus was first identified in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2015, according to the Alaska Department of Health. Since then, there have been only seven cases reported in the state, according to the state health department. This is the first case of an Alaskapox inf...

Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Inflation data to be released on Tuesday will show whether price increases resumed a monthslong slowdown in January. The report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics follows a slight acceleration of price increases in December. That jump in inflation complicated the Federal Reserves plans to deescalate its inflation fight with a series of interest rate cuts this year. Fewer than two weeks ago, the central bank decided to leave interest rates unchange...

Evans Vestal Ward/NBCKate McKinnon can now add published author to her list of accomplishments. The actress’s debut novel, The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science, is set to arrive on October 1 from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. McKinnon started working on the upcoming release before she ever appeared on Saturday Night Live, incorporating story elements and characters inspired by her own childhood. The project is the first in her new series, which f...

President Joe Biden shakes hands with King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein after giving remarks White House, Feb. 12, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- As the U.S. attempts to push Israel and Hamas closer to an agreement that would see all remaining hostages in Gaza freed in exchange for an extended truce, U.S. officials say CIA Director William Burns will travel to Egypt for negotiations -- but that his Israeli counterparts had not yet committed to participating in the ta...