New York attorney general leads 48 states in launching massive antitrust suit against Facebook that seeks to split up the company by forcing it to sell Instagram and WhatsApp

The attorney general of New York has filed a massive antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, seeking to force a divestiture of acquisitions such as Instagram and WhatsApp.

The suit filed on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is spearheaded by New York Attorney General Letitia James, and joined by 47 other state attorneys general.

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Good news! Green fanatics to self extinct: People aren’t having kids because of impending climate ‘apocalypse,’ study suggests

People are deciding to not have kids over fears of them having to live through what they describe as an impending climate apocalypse, a new academic study found.

Researchers found that in a survey of 607 people aged 27 to 45 who considered climate change as a factor in their choice to have kids, over 96 per cent were either “very” or “extremely concerned” about the “well-being of their existing, expected or hypothetical children in a climate-changed world.”

There’s an upside to everything if you look hard enough.

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Police say it would be ‘unsafe’ to shut down Adamson BBQ due to large crowds

Toronto police say they don’t have the manpower to shut down a busy Etobicoke BBQ joint that defied provincial COVID-19 lockdown orders on Tuesday by opening for indoor dining.

Police and city bylaw officers arrived at Adamson Barbecue on Tuesday morning after it announced earlier on social media that it would defy the province’s orders forbidding indoor restaurant service.

Etobicoke BBQ restaurant forced to shut after defying lockdown order to open for dine-in service

CityNews reported that Adamson Barbecue had first taken to social media on Monday to proclaim that it wouldn’t be obeying the latest lockdown order. The Ontario government had announced in recent days that indoor dining, and various other activities, would be curbed from this week on, to stop the spread of the virus.

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