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Venmo opens for teens, officially

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

NEW YORK — Teenagers will officially be allowed to open a Venmo account with their parent’s permission, the company said Monday, expanding the popular social payments app to an age demographic that is likely to embrace it almost immediately.Using Venmo won’t necessarily be new to a good number of teens — parents often set up accounts for their children through their own accounts, which is a violation of Venmo’s terms of service. There have been guides on the Internet for some time showing parents how to create a child’s account without Venmo penalizing them.Venmo has been a popular way to send money to individuals for years, and now has more than 90 million users. The product for teens comes at a time when other social apps are being watched closely by politicians and regulators. The state of Montana banned TikTok last week and other states are considering a ban as well.Opening up Venmo to teenagers will be a significant expansion of Venmo’s market. Com...

Ravens free agency tracker 2023: Veteran quarterback Josh Johnson returning to Baltimore for third time

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

Welcome to the Ravens’ free-agency tracker, which will be updated throughout the offseason.As of the start of the NFL’s new league year on March 15 at 4 p.m., teams can officially announce signings and trades. Here’s a rundown of who the Ravens have agreed to sign, who they’ve lost and who’s still on the open market:Free agent additionsQuarterback Josh Johnson: The 37-year-old free agent quarterback has signed with the Ravens, the team announced May 22. Johnson has played for an NFL-record 14 teams and this marks his third time with the Ravens.A fifth-round pick out of San Diego by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2008, he played for Baltimore in 2021 and was on the roster during the 2016 offseason before being released that September. He also gives Baltimore a veteran presence in its quarterback room and will compete with Tyler Huntley, Anthony Brown and undrafted free agent Nolan Henderson for a backup role behind Lamar Jackson, who earlier this month sign...

Feds approve new overdose reversal drug

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Monday approved a new easy-to-use version of a medication to reverse overdoses caused by fentanyl and other opioids driving the nation’s drug crisis.Opvee is similar to naloxone, the life-saving drug that has been used for decades to quickly counter overdoses of heroin, fentanyl and prescription painkillers. Both work by blocking the effects of opioids in the brain, which can restore normal breathing and blood pressure in people who have recently overdosed.The Food and Drug Administration endorsed Opvee, a nasal spray update of the drug nalmefene, which was first approved as an injection in the mid-1990s but later removed from the market due to low sales. Naloxone comes as both a nasal spray and injection.It’s not immediately clear how the new drug will be used differently compared to naloxone, and some experts see potential downsides to its longer-acting effect. The drug will be available via prescription and is approved for patien...

E. Jean Carroll adds Trump’s post-verdict remarks to defamation case, seeks at least $10M

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

By LARRY NEUMEISTER (Associated Press)NEW YORK (AP) — E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump, is seeking at least $10 million more in a new court filing Monday that seeks to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.An amended lawsuit seeking the $10 million in compensatory damages — and more in punitive damages — was filed in Manhattan by lawyers for Carroll, who say remarks by Trump in response to her rape allegations so spoiled her reputation that she lost her longtime job as an Elle magazine advice columnist.They said in the rewritten lawsuit that he “doubled down” on derogatory remarks about Carroll at a cable television appearance a day after the verdict.“Trump’s defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill w...

Patriots-Steelers regular-season game could change after new NFL rule

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

Come December, the Patriots will kick off at Pittsburgh on Thursday Night Football.Unless they don’t.Related ArticlesNew England Patriots | Jim Brown, all-time NFL great and social activist, dead at 87 New England Patriots | Patriots sign UDFA DL Justus Tavai to fill vacant roster spot New England Patriots | Patriots waive backup O-lineman, clear $2.7 million in cap space New England Patriots | Patriots O-linemen high on new position coach Adrian Klemm New England Patriots | Patriots reportedly hire first woman scouting assistant from college ranks Among other rules passed by league owners Monday afternoon, the NFL can now flex Thursday Night Football games out in Weeks 13-17. The Patriots and Steelers are scheduled to play in Week 14 at 8:15 p.m. and could now be pushed back to a Sunday afternoon kickoff. If the game is flexed out, both teams will receive at least 28 days’ notice.The NFL can...

Chula Vista elementary school secured after firearm found in student's backpack

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

CHULA VISTA, Calif. -- San Diego police officers secured a Chula Vista elementary school campus on Monday after a firearm was discovered in a student's backpack, according to district officials.Officers with SDPD were dispatched to Finney Elementary School near Palm Avenue, after receiving a report from the school that there was a firearm in the backpack of a primary student.According to Chula Vista Elementary School District officials, the firearm was reportedly put in the backpack of the student by an adult at home by mistake.Finney Elementary School was placed on a secure campus notice by law enforcement, but the district said it was not under a lockdown. MTS routes still impacted as strike enters second week The firearm was then safely retrieved by officers. No gunshots or injuries were reported.Finney Elementary was reopened after police determined that there was no longer a threat to students and staff.The incident remains under investigation by SDPD in collaboration with th...

Encinitas Starbucks becomes first in San Diego County to unionize

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

ENCINITAS, Calif. -- Workers at a Starbucks in Encinitas have voted to unionize, becoming the first store in San Diego County to join nationwide efforts to better working conditions at the coffee franchise.The vote to unionize the Starbucks, located right off the Interstate 5 near Leucadia Boulevard, took place Friday -- a little over a month after the process was initiated by a petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).All full-time and part-time baristas and shift supervisors at the branch participated in the vote. Of the 28 eligible voters, 21 voted in favor of unionization and two voted against it. MTS routes still impacted as strike enters second week “It feels amazing to see what we’ve been working so hard for come to fruition. We feel like we’re finally getting our own voice,” baristas and labor organizers at the store, Alina Stangeland and Denika Brown, said in a press release Monday.In the release, the freshly formed Encinitas union cited grievanc...

School shooter asks for mercy from life sentence; teacher, principal want him to stay in prison

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A school shooter serving a life sentence without parole for killing a first grader on a South Carolina playground when he was 14 is asking a judge to lessen his sentence so he can eventually get out of prison.Jesse Osborne’s lawyer asked Judge Lawton McIntosh on Monday to reconsider his sentence so Osborne, now 21, could have some hope of freedom in his 50s or 60s.Attorney Frank Eppes said the judge didn’t fully consider a psychologist’s report that Osborne’s lashed out because of abuse and can be rehabilitated.“Give Jesse some hope to live with,” Eppes said at a televised court hearing.Osborne himself asked for a chance at life outside a prison cell, apologizing to the family of 6-year-old Jacob Hall who he killed and everyone at the school that day.“I would just like to say sorry to every single one of them. Because my evil actions hurt their lives,” Osborne said. “I’m just going to try to better myself in the Department of Corrections...

Montana governor signs law to define ‘sex’ as only male or female

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican Governor Greg Gianforte has signed a bill defining the word “sex” in state law as only male or female — joining Kansas and Tennessee, which have similar laws that LGBTQ+ advocates argue will deny legal recognition to nonbinary and transgender people.Medical professionals say the laws also ignore that some people are born as intersex — a term that encompasses about 60 conditions in which a person is born with genitalia, reproductive organs, chromosomes and/or hormone levels that don’t fit typical definitions of male or female.The sponsor of the bill said the change is needed to clarify from a legal standpoint that “sex” and “gender” don’t mean the same thing.The Montana bill “is an attempt to erase trans, nonbinary and two-spirit people from the code, thereby removing the rights, privileges and considerations that trans, nonbinary and Two Spirit people would have under the law,” said SK Rossi last month, testifying against the legislation on beha...

Columnist adds Trump’s post-verdict comments to pending defamation case

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:55:34 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former President Donald Trump filed an amended lawsuit against him on Monday seeking to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.The amended lawsuit, seeking at least $10 million in compensatory damages, was filed in Manhattan federal court by lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who says remarks by Trump after she made rape allegations against him so spoiled her reputation that she lost her longtime job as an Elle magazine advice columnist.A nine-person jury two weeks ago decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996.Carroll, who testified during the trial, first revealed in a 2019 book her claims that Trump raped her in a dressing room, but the jury rejected that claim.Joe Tacopina, a Trump lawyer, declined to comment on the new claims.Kaplan filed the new claims in amending a defamation lawsuit that was put on h...