Roblox sued for allegedly enabling young girl’s sexual, financial exploitation

Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket) Through the pandemic, the user-created game platform that’s so popular with kids, Roblox, expanded its user base and decided to go public. Within two years, its value shot from less than $4 billion to $45 billion. Now it’s being sued—along with Discord, Snap, and Meta—by a parent…

Kremlin allows Russian state TV to report on military setbacks in Ukraine as Putin searches for a scapegoat: ‘We have to stop lying’

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The Kremlin has given permission for some state media to start acknowledging Russia’s recent defeats in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported. Russia’s tightly-controlled state media has recently been unusually critical of Vladimir Putin’s war. Questioning Putin or his decision to invade Ukraine remains off the table for state media.  Russia’s…

A hurricane once again ripped apart Puerto Rico’s electric grid. Advocates say solar and batteries can help the island deal with future storms.

A man walks down a flooded street in the Juana Matos neighborhood of Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 19, 2022, following Hurricane Fiona. Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images Hurricane Fiona was the latest setback for Puerto Rico’s power grid, which is plagued by blackouts. More than $12 billion in federal funding is available to…

Herschel Walker disputes that he had a child with an ex-girlfriend after previously confirming that he did

Herschel Walker Bill Barrow/AP Herschel Walker implied that he hadn’t confirmed that his ex-girlfriend is the mother of his child. But the embattled Senate candidate told The Daily Beast in June that she was. The comments came as he fielded questions on Thursday about paying for her abortion, which he denies. In a series of…

Bay Area hospital slammed with lawsuit over $6,000 emergency room bill for urine test

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Savannah Thompson visited John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek after she believed she accidentally ingested fentanyl. Thompson is suing John Muir Health for charging her nearly 100 times Medicare’s reimbursement rate for a urine test. According to the suit, the hospital’s high fee was in violation of California’s consumer-protection law. A…