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Four first-of-a-kind lawsuits in Kansas were filed Monday aiming to hold porn websites accountable for violating state law, which mandates they use adequate age-verification systems. There are no federal laws requiring porn sites to verify a user’s age.The suits, filed by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and a Kansas law firm on behalf of a minor child and the child’s mother, are groundbreaking. It is apparently the first time a minor is seeking a legal remedy through the provisions of state age-verification laws for pornographic sites, according to NCOSE’s general counsel.Kansas is among roughly 20 other states that…

Police acting on a community tip-off have found hundreds of cannabis plants in an outer-city rental factory.

A Russian drone strike hit Ukraine’s Sumy region hours after first direct talks in three years.It took three years to get officials from Ukraine and Russia in the same room. But President Vladimir Putin, who proposed the meeting, did not go to Istanbul and the talks ended in less than 90 minutes. The result: an agreement for a large-scale prisoner exchange, talks about their presidents meeting, and both sides pushing their vision of a future ceasefire. Yet, diplomacy is not narrowing the great gap between Russia and Ukraine. So, is President Putin agreeing to further talks to avoid more sanctions?…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke on the phone Saturday with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to get a readout on the latest talks, as the U.S. tries to determine whether Russia is “tapping us along” in efforts to end the war in Ukraine.”We talked about a variety of things,” Rubio told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” in an interview airing Sunday. “I wanted to get his readout on his view of how the talks went yesterday. They were not a complete waste of time.”The phone call between the countries’ top diplomats occurred a day after Moscow and Kyiv…

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For the first time, 24-year-old Mackenzie Dawn Hardy is sharing her side the story after being mistakenly released from an Edmonton-area jail with what police say was a fraudulent letter. On Wednesday, Global News first reported an Alberta woman was released at the end of April from the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Centre (FSCC), which houses both inmates serving jail sentences of up to two years and those in remand awaiting judgment.A fraudulent “stay letter” was allegedly submitted under the name of a fake Crown prosecutor and sent through a bogus “defence counsel,” according to a whistleblower Global News has agreed…

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Actory calls on filmmakers to ‘keep telling the stories, keep expressing yourself and keep fighting to be who you are’.Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal has called on members of the film industry to “fight back” and keep expressing themselves amid what he appeared to describe as a political climate of fear in the United States. “F*** the people that try to make you scared. And fight back. This is the perfect way to do so in telling stories. Don’t let them win,” said 50-year-old Pascal, who was at the Cannes film festival for the premiere of “Eddington”. “Fear is the way…

Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, is once again calling on his colleagues in the House to impeach President Donald Trump, saying the president has “devolved American democracy into authoritarianism.” “I pen this communique with a heavy heart, driven by a conscience that will not allow me to ignore my well-founded, strong pre-election condemnation of Donald John Trump as a threat to American democracy that has now become our reality,” Green wrote in a letter urging his colleagues to impeach the president.Green argues that, contrary to what many believe, there does not need to be a constitutional crisis in order to impeach a…

It’s a tragedy that shocked Australian sport and has left families shattered by grief.On a Saturday night in the leafy Adelaide suburb of Medindie, Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins lay on a street with critical injuries, as neighbours and her husband Rohan Dennis desperately called for help.The beloved mother-of-two had tripped and fallen under the family’s Volkswagen Amarok, as fellow Olympian Dennis was behind the wheel and driving away.Ms Hoskins suffered critical injuries and later died at Royal Adelaide Hospital.This week, Dennis received a suspended jail sentence for his actions leading up to that tragic moment, bringing to a close a…