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March Madness: Top teams tip off, how to watch first round

2 years 8 months ago
March Madness is here! Here is what to know, including the favorites and underdogs as well as key games and how to watch the NCAA Tournament. Oh, and how to fill out your brackets! HOW TO WATCH Every game of the men’s tournament will be aired — here is a schedule — either on CBS, [...]
The Associated Press

Undercover: Humane Society releases results of Illinois coyote-killing contest

2 years 8 months ago
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) on Wednesday released what officials call the "shocking results" of a February 2023 undercover investigation at Nuggets Night Vision Coyote Hunt, a wildlife-killing contest in Mendon, Illinois. According to the HSUS, similar hunts take place in the Quad-Cities region (for a list of communities, see "Background" below.) [...]
Linda Cook

CFPB Launches Long Overdue Probe Of Unaccountable Data Broker Market

2 years 8 months ago
We’ve noted for a while that the performative histrionics surrounding TikTok are really just a distraction from our corrupt failure to police dodgy data brokers or pass even a basic privacy law for the internet era. U.S. companies don’t want to lose money by empowering consumers or being ethical, and the U.S. government doesn’t want […]
Karl Bode

St. Louis' largest Kickstarter still owes people money

2 years 8 months ago
The office of the Missouri attorney general has decided not to pursue action against the man behind St. Louis’ largest Kickstarter campaign on record. Thousands of backers wanted a magnet-based "fort" during the pandemic. Nearly two years later, some of those Get the Fort customers are still waiting for their items. St. Louis’ Conor Lewis is the founder of the business. The fort was supposed to be a toy that would give parents a break during the pandemic. It’s a magnetic foam system made…
Michelle Li