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News24 | What to know about Trump’s plan on Venezuela

Today at 15:58 PM, via News24

Following the abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Saturday, United States President Donald Trump said Washington would “run” the Latin American country until a transition was complete, but a day later, his top diplomat said the US does not want to govern the country.

Education

Many schools don’t think students can read full novels anymore. That’s a tragedy | Margaret Sullivan

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Increasingly, teens are given only parts of books, and they often read not in print but on school-issued laptops

Reading fiction has been such a joy for me that my heart broke a little to learn recently that many schools no longer assign full books to high school students.

Rather, teens are given excerpts of books, and they often read them not in print but on school-issued laptops, according to...

Science/Tech

‘NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court’

Today at 18:01 PM, via Slashdot

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has signed S4505, a law that requires websites to display warnings claiming that features like algorithmic feeds, push notifications, infinite scroll, like counts, and autoplay cause addiction — despite, as TechDirt argues, the absence of scientific consensus supporting such claims. State Senator Andrew Gounardes sponsored the legislation. The law’s constitutional...