Thursday marks the end of the school year for Iola-USD 257. As Taelyn Mathews, a school-based therapist with Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center, reflects on the year, she identifies some clear trends among the students…

It finally happened: Social media companies are starting to be held accountable for the toxicity of their algorithmic grip. In a first ruling of its kind, a California Superior Court jury found Wednesday that Meta…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury was listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mark Zuckerberg will testify in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children. Meta’s CEO is expected to answer tough questions on Wednesday from…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and…

As Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly starts the final session of her second term as governor, she’s hailing a deal to attract the Kansas City Chiefs and asking people to reject the growing divides and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring…

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling-out last week, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture. “I…

WASHINGTON — Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg took the stand on Monday in an antitrust trial in Washington, defending acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp amid accusations from U.S. regulators that Meta holds an illegal…

A southeast Kansas woman is becoming a household name on social media. Katherine Umbarger has turned her love of homesteading into a lucrative business, selling an estimated 16,000 copies of her self-published cookbook in a…