Online videos of roller skaters at Westbrook’s Happy Wheels have gone viral recently. They’re working to attract younger people to the activity and sport.
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‘Fisherman core’ is the latest fashion fad. Here’s what Mainers think.
Fashion forecasters say fishermen are models of today’s trends. Do they get it right? Yes and no.
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Supreme Court backs law banning TikTok if it’s not sold by parent company
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed that he can negotiate a solution but finds himself in opposition to prominent Senate Republicans.
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Tech firms remove social media accounts of Russian drone factory after investigation
Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
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States sue TikTok, claim platform is addictive and harms kids’ mental health
More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia have filed lawsuits against the video platform.
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TikTok, U.S. government face off in court over law that could ban popular platform
TikTok argues that the law is unconstitutional, while the Justice Department says it is needed to eliminate a national security risk due to the platform’s Chinese ties.
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Trump courts conservative male influencers to try to reach younger men
His campaign has fully embraced the bravado-filled, macho, often contrarian online spaces of younger men on livestreaming platforms.
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Israeli airstrike blamed for Palestinian TikTok star’s death
Medo Halimy, 19, began making his ‘tent life’ video series when he took refuge with his family earlier this year in a strip of southern Gaza.
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U.S. appeals court takes aim at Big Tech liability shield
A Pennsylvania mother won the right to sue TikTok over the death of her 10-year-old daughter.
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Justice Department sues TikTok, accusing them of illegally collecting children’s data
The complaint says TikTok also allowed children to create accounts without having to provide their age or obtain parental approval, by using credentials from third-party services.