内容摘要：The proposed Texas ban aimed at minors was the latest move in a growing bipartisan push nationwide to address the impacts of social media on the well-being of children. Critics accuse platforms of using addictive functions to lure children onto their site and keep them there, and of not doing enough to curb violent or age-inappropriate content, or online abuse.

The proposed Texas ban aimed at minors was the latest move in a growing bipartisan push nationwide to address the impacts of social media on the well-being of children. Critics accuse platforms of using addictive functions to lure children onto their site and keep them there, and of not doing enough to curb violent or age-inappropriate content, or online abuse.

International visits to the U.S. have plummeted, within response to President Donald

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said last week that everyone should feel welcome.“Regardless of what’s happening at other levels, and particularly now at the federal level, in Boston we welcome everyone,” Wu said Friday at a public safety media briefing not far from the finish line. “We seek to be a home for everyone.”When Hugh Mangum was growing up in Los Angeles, his Texan father showed off his

in their backyard nearly every weekend. It became a ritual for the family to patiently tend to the fire.After his father’s death more than 20 years ago, Mangum carried on the tradition, first experimenting with a little smoker after he moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

“Whenever I start a fire, there’s just this kind of presence,” he said. “I feel it in the soul of my belly, my heart, like he’s there.”

Now he is more steeped than ever in the barbecue world, with in-laws from barbecue-loving North Carolina and a 7,000-pound smoker. Not to mention his nine locations of Mighty Quinn’s barbecue restaurants in the New York area, plus franchises in Florida and Maryland.They could face each other on Thursday, when France plays Spain in the Nations League semifinals.

Both have the soccer world at their feet. ___BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — The body of a 10-year-old girl who was swept away in rapidly rising floodwaters has been recovered, Brenham Fire Chief Mark Donovan said Tuesday.

Her body was found as forecasters warned that the day could bring moreto the Houston area and the state’s coast.