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George Santos has, finally, been kicked out of the House of Representatives. The New York congressman — who repeatedly refused to resign in the face of his many scandals, including a federal criminal indictment — announced earlier this month that he will no longer seek re-election in 2024 following the release last month of a damning House Ethics Committee report that found “substantial evidence” he had committed crimes.  The final vote to expel Santos was 311-114. Two-thirds of the House needed to vote in…

The wildly popular TikTok app continues to come under pressure from U.S. lawmakers. Many are concerned that ByteDance, the Beijing-based company behind the app, has close ties with the Chinese government, and that laws in China mean it could be required to hand over user data to the government to assist in intelligence gathering. There are also fears that the app’s algorithms could be tweaked to push particular content designed to further Chinese interests. In a letter shared on Thursday, Michael Bennett, a…

In early October 2022 Jane Stadnik, a family resource specialist at the Parent Education & Advocacy Leadership (PEAL) Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., got a frantic call from the mother of a three-year-old boy who was about to be expelled from preschool. The school was tiring of his disruptive behavior, which, it claimed, included throwing blocks, not following directions, refusing to sit at “circle time” and periodically running from the classroom. Stadnik says that this would normally be seen as “typical developmental…

A Spanish university residence said on Thursday it had expelled several male students who were recorded in a video that has gone viral on social media, in which they are heard shouting sexist threats outside a residence. across the street, sparking a national wave of outrage. In the images, which Reuters has not been able to verify, a person can be heard screaming first from a window of the Elías Ahuja college in Madrid to the nearby Santa Mónica female residence. “Bitches, come out of your burrows like…