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Month: January 2024

Mississippi restrictions on medical marijuana advertising upheld by federal judge

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG Associated Press/Report for America JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the owner of a medical marijuana dispensary who says state regulations that forbid him from advertising in most media amount to censorship. Mississippi officials had argued that dispensary owners do not enjoy constitutional protections granted

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Bill would revise Tennessee’s decades-old law targeting HIV-positive people convicted of sex work

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A proposal advancing in the Tennessee legislature would stop requiring lifetime registration as a violent sex offender for anyone convicted of engaging in sex work while living with HIV. Currently, Tennessee is the only U.S. state with such a statute, and it’s being challenged in federal

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France fines Amazon $35 million for ‘excessively intrusive’ monitoring of warehouse staff

PARIS (AP) — France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity. The regulator said Tuesday that the system allowed managers at Amazon France Logistique to track employees so closely that it resulted in multiple breaches of the European Union’s stringent

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Netflix’s gains 13M new global 4Q subscribers as it unwraps its best-ever holiday season results

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service and a smattering of price hikes. The fourth-quarter results announced Tuesday provided further

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Former orphanage founder in Haiti faces federal charges of sexually abusing minors

DENVER (AP) — Federal prosecutors say the founder of an orphanage in Haiti is facing criminal charges in the U.S. for allegedly traveling to the Caribbean country to sexually abuse minors. Michael Geilenfeld previously sued a Maine activist over accusations he abused boys in Haiti. Geilenfeld called the accusations “vicious, vile lies” before the investigation

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Niecy Nash-Betts congratulates ‘real cousins’ Sterling K. Brown and Danielle Brooks on their Oscar nominations

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — What a family tree Niecy Nash-Betts apparently has! The actress (and recent Emmy winner) took to social media on Tuesday to congratulate her cousins, Sterling K. Brown and Danielle Brooks, on their Oscar nominations. “Both of my COUSINS are OSCAR NOMINATED,” Nash-Betts wrote in the caption of a

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Netflix’s subscriber growth surges as streaming service unwraps best-ever holiday season results

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service and a smattering of price hikes. The fourth-quarter results announced Tuesday provided evidence

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Netflix’s subscriber growth surges as streaming service unwraps best-ever holiday season results

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service and a smattering of price hikes. The fourth-quarter results announced Tuesday provided evidence

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