The Daily Populous

LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations, in a move that risks rekindling tensions with Washington over free speech.

It’s the first time that the EU has issued a so-called non-compliance decision since rolling out the DSA.

Vice President JD Vance, posting on X ahead of the decision, accused the Commission of seeking to fine X “for not engaging in censorship.”. »

WASHINGTON – Facing a backlog of school discrimination cases, the U.S. Department of Education has asked hundreds of employees it fired months ago to temporarily return to work.

Julie Hartman, the Education Department's press secretary for legal affairs, stressed there still aren't any plans to fully rehire those workers permanently.

She has argued the change will ultimately help streamline the federal government's limited role in the education system. »

A wax museum in San Antonio, Texas, had to pull its Donald Trump statue from public view after repeated incidents in which visitors physically attacked it.

Staff at Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks ultimately moved the figure into storage because guests continually punched and scratched it, leaving visible damage.

“It’s a presidential figure,” said Suzanne Smagala-Potts, a spokesperson for Ripley Entertainment, the company that owns the museum. »

The video has gathered more than 269000 likes on Facebook and shows Bambas explaining that he retired from General Motors in 1999.

He said the stability he counted on vanished in 2012 when the company went bankrupt and he lost his pension along with his healthcare coverage.

Weidenhofer often uses his platform to help people in tough situations and set up a GoFundMe page after meeting Bambas. »