Snap sued over rape of minor who connected to adult attacker on Snapchat

The parents of a girl who was raped when she was 12 years old by an adult stranger she met on Snapchat have sued its parent company, Snap, and the attacker in Missouri state court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday claims the social media company has refused to disable dangerous features in its app or warn parents about potential harms it may cause. According to the lawsuit, the girl began using Snapchat in 2021, when she was 11, without her parents’ knowledge. While the app requires users to be 13 to sign up, the lawsuit says the girl does not remember what…

Tyler Mahle shines, Giants walk off A’s with two homers in ninth

Where has this Tyler Mahle been? The woeful Giants walked off the A’s, 2-1, with two homers in the ninth, but don’t let that distract you from the biggest development of a foggy Wednesday evening at Oracle Park. Mahle looked like a totally different pitcher than the one that owned…

Mets trade David Peterson to Cubs as they dump struggling lefty

Could this be the beginning of a Mets sell-off? The Mets have dealt left-handed starter David Peterson to the Cubs after getting swept in a doubleheader by Chicago, The Post’s Jon Heyman confirmed. New York will receive minor league third baseman Cole Mathis as the return, The Athletic’s Will Sammon…

Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries shrug off Mamdani’s NYC socialist sweep — as ‘normie’ Dems erupt over ‘wackjob’ invasion

WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders downplayed wins for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s handpicked challengers in primary races Tuesday, as moderates clamored for results to be a wake-up call for the party establishment. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the elections showed “a great united party,” and House…

Brutal first-punch KO ends boxing match in controversy: ‘Super unfair’

The first and only punch of a boxing match delivered a knockout and plenty of controversy. Viktor Jurk, 26, landed a vicious left-hook knockout of Edwin Castillo, 23, to open their heavyweight fight on the Karen Chukhadzhian-Paddy Donovan undercard in Mannheim, Germany, on Friday night.  “Unbelievable,” DAZN play-by-play man Adam…

Buzz kill! Feds nix VA contract to buy thousands of vibrators for female vets

The Veterans’ Affairs Administration pulled the plug this month on a Biden-era initiative to supply vibrators to female vets. Lawmakers and watchdogs says it’s only the latest out-of-touch proposal from the free-spending agency. The off-the-shelf machines – called “Clitoral Therapy Devices” – were for the “clinical needs of impaired patient…

AI job screeners prefer AI-written resumes over human ones, researchers find

Choose your bot wisely. Job seekers desperate for a new gig now have to contend with a thoroughly modern hurdle: applicant tracking systems that automatically give preference to candidates who used AI to write their resumes. A recent study found AI-powered applicant tracking systems, or ATS, not only prefer AI-written…

Science news this week: PCOS has a new name, Neanderthals were the world’s oldest dentists, and the first nuclear bomb explosion spawned an ‘alien’ crystal

This week’s science news featured some big headlines for health, including the landmark decision to officially rename polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS).The name change — the culmination of a 14-year process that took input from over 14,000 patients and health professionals — was made to…

Can people catch infections from plants?

It’s a plotline that has haunted science fiction for decades: Humans become infected by plant pathogens, causing illness, death or a zombie-like state. But is there any truth to this idea? Can plant germs really cross over to people?The short, disturbing answer is yes, experts told Live Science, but it’s…

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