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Disturbing "Five Nights At Epstein's" Online Game
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Zero Hedge
Spreads Rapidly Through Classrooms ...despite platform policies. In the game, players take on the role of victims trapped on Jeffrey Epstein’s island, trying to survive five nights by avoiding assault. Its popularity has been fueled by social media, where clips of students playing have drawn large audiences and, in some cases, even demonstrate how to bypass school restrictions. The game’s accessibility through web browsers makes it especially easy for students to access on school-issued devices. Parents and educators are alarmed not only by the game’s content but by how casually students engage with it.

Epstein victim sues DOJ, Google over identifying information in Epstein files
Topic: Unspecified
Source: Politico
The lawsuit accuses DOJ of violating the privacy of about 100 Epstein victims. A victim of Jeffrey Epstein is suing the Trump administration and Google for the “wrongful disclosure and republication” of identifying information of victims in the Epstein files, claiming the release violated their privacy protections. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of California, is a class action complaint from an anonymous Epstein victim who lives in California. The lawsuit blames the Justice Department for violating the privacy of about 100 Epstein victims through the publication of identifying information released in the Epstein files, and Google for “continuously republish[ing] it, refusing victim’s pleas to take it down.”

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Censored in India
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Variety
Amid Fears Theatrical Release ‘Would Break Up the India-Israel Relationship’. The Indian theatrical release of Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated feature “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” which was planned for this month, is being blocked by the country’s Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) for political reasons, according to the film’s local distributor. “The Voice of Hind Rajab” — which tells the story of a real 5-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped inside a car attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza and later found dead — is being censored by the CBFC because “the film is very sensitive,” distributor Manoj Nandwana, who heads Mumbai-based Jai Viratra Entertainment, tells Variety.

LA United School District scandal leads to charges
Topic: Children and Family
Source: FOX News
...as $22M scheme allegedly drained funds meant for students. District attorney says 2 suspects ran a multi-year 'pay-to-play' arrangement that siphoned millions from schools A former Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) IT employee and a tech company owner are facing felony charges in what prosecutors describe as one of the "largest" alleged money laundering schemes in the district's history.

Black Women Bear Brunt Of Mass Layoffs With The Rise Of AI & End Of DEI
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Zero Hedge
Black women saw the sharpest increase in unemployment in the US over the past year, suggesting the DEI gravy train is over... Over the course of the last decade, the great social debate has mostly revolved around the issue of "merit vs equity", or equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome. For anyone with common sense it's clear that "equity" is a non-starter; a system which skews accomplishment and hands success to unqualified people based solely on their ethnicity, gender or sexual identity. The experiment has been disastrous for western civilization so far. Women in general and black women in particular were initially sought out by companies to fill DEI quotas that should not have existed in the first place. These quotas were instituted because governments and NGO's created the demand for them by offering numerous subsidies, tax breaks and special credit access. Corporations that met the DEI requirements would then have a financial edge on the competition, so everyone had to participate to avoid being surpassed by the other guy.

Audits Spotlight Unusual Trends In Medicaid Spending For Autism Care
Topic: Children and Family
Source: The Epoch Times
One in 31 U.S. children has an autism diagnosis. Among Minnesota’s Somali community, that number jumps to one in 12... That discrepancy made headlines last fall when the Department of Justice charged a Somali woman with netting millions in fraudulent autism services. Now, state and federal investigators are putting autism spending in the spotlight.

7M Student Borrowers Are Set to Receive an Unwanted Letter
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CBS News
Education Department notices inform students in SAVE plan that their payments will soon resume Millions of federal student loan borrowers are about to be kicked out of a short-lived repayment plan that a federal court shut down earlier this month. CBS News and the AP report that, per the Department of Education, roughly 7.5 million borrowers enrolled in the Biden administration's SAVE income-driven repayment program will begin receiving notices on Friday telling them to pick a new plan, with payments to start up again as soon as this summer. The borrowers have remained in forbearance since July 2024, as lawsuits moved through the courts. Beginning July 1 of this year, however, loan servicers will give each borrower 90 days to choose a different repayment option—almost all of which will mean higher monthly bills.

MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Politico.EU
The vote followed weeks of clashes, as national governments pushed the European Parliament to drop its privacy objections to the rules. The European Parliament on Thursday voted down rules that would allow technology companies to scan for child abuse online — and immediately drew the ire of top-level officials. Lawmakers voted not to extend a temporary law that allows platforms to scan their services for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The law will expire next Friday, at which point scanning for the content will become illegal in Europe. In rejecting the rules, lawmakers resisted pressure from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, four European commissioners, tech giants Meta, Google and Microsoft and numerous children’s charities in past weeks.

California renames Cesar Chavez Day following sexual abuse allegations
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: CNN
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename César Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon’s legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31. The state Senate approved the legislation earlier in the day with bipartisan support. The change comes after allegations became public last week that Chavez had sexually abused girls and women during his days building a major farmworker labor rights movement in the 1960s in California’s agricultural heartland. Among those who accused him was Dolores Huerta, who co-led the movement that eventually became the United Farm Workers.

DOJ opens investigations into 3 medical schools over alleged race-based admission
Topic: Affirmative Action
Source: Just the News
The investigations, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, are into Stanford University, the Ohio State University and the University of California San Diego. Dhillon's office requested the schools provide seven years of data about applicants’ race, standardized test scores, relations to donors, zip codes and other educational information by April 24.

Planned Parenthood Ill To Pay $500K For ‘Segregating Employees By Race’
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: EEOC
...discriminated against white employees through illegal DEI training, the EEOC says. Planned Parenthood of Illinois (Planned Parenthood) violated federal law when they segregated employees by race, subjected white employees to harassment, and engaged in disparate treatment against white employees regarding terms, conditions, and privileges of employment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found as part of a class investigation into charges brought by multiple Planned Parenthood employees.

DOJ probing Ca, Maine for allowing trans-identified males in women's prisons
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: The Post Millennial
"Keeping men out of women’s prisons is not only common sense – it’s a matter of safety and constitutional rights." The Department of Justice announced that it has notified governors Gavin Newsom of California and Janet Mills of Maine that it is conducting federal investigations into their states’ housing of trans-identified males alongside female inmates in their prisons. The investigation is looking into whether officials in the states have engaged in a "pattern or practice of violating the constitutional rights of female prisoners" who are being housed at the California Institution for Women (CIW) in San Bernardino County, the Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF) in Madera County, and the Maine Correctional Center in Windham (MCC Windham).

UK Tests Social Media Curfews, Time Caps for Teens
Topic: Children and Family
Source: CNBC
Government will also test complete bans for a portion of 300 in pilot study. British teens are about to become test subjects in a government experiment on life with less scrolling. The UK's Department for Science, Innovation & Technology will run a six-week pilot study involving 300 teenagers, imposing different limits on social media use, after lawmakers rejected a nationwide under-16s ban, per CNBC. One group of parents will remove or disable selected apps using parental controls; another will cap popular platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat at one hour a day; a third will enforce a nighttime blackout from 9pm to 7am; a fourth group will face no restrictions. The trial feeds into a broader "digital wellbeing" review closing May 26 that has already garnered 30,000 responses from parents and children, per the BBC.

Spanish woman, 25, dies by legal euthanasia in case that drew national spotlight
Topic: Violence Against Women
Source: The Washington Times
Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. She was 25. EDITOR’S NOTE - This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, international helplines can be found at www.iasp.info/suicidalthoughts. For nearly two years, Castillo pursued her right to die after her father put up a lengthy legal battle when a medical body in Catalonia approved her request for euthanasia in 2024.

An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Block Club Chicago
Alpha School, a pricey private school with campuses nationwide, uses artificial intelligence to instruct students. AI schools have been praised by the Trump administration, but researchers say there’s limited evidence the model works. Bean bag chairs, soundproof booths and portable whiteboards make Alpha Schools look more like a tech startup than a school. But its biggest break from tradition is not the design: It’s an education model that uses artificial intelligence to teach core subjects while adults in the room serve as “guides,” not teachers.

Louisville Shells Out $800,000 for Unconstitutional Demands on Christian Photographer
Topic: Political Correctness
Source: Jonathan Turley
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $800,000 in attorney fees to settle a case with a Christian photographer who fought to protect her religious and free speech rights over the years of litigation. Louisville ultimately spent a fortune to force Chelsey Nelson to photograph same sex marriages under its nondiscrimination laws. When combined with its own litigation costs, the case likely cost the city and the courts millions to deny Nelson her constitutional rights.

The Conversation About Women That We Don’t Need To Have
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Real Clear Politics
Conservatives want to support healthy family formation. But that can’t require sacrificing meritocracy or the very concept of a limited government. At the Heritage Foundation last week, a panel of conservative women met to discuss women’s roles and how to encourage and support young mothers. The room was filled with young women, including mothers caring for fussing babies while also intently listening to the conversation. Decades of radical feminists demonized motherhood as a waste of women’s intellect, the panel explained. Women should reject this and recognize the profound value mothers provide their families and the world by instilling children with good character. Relationships, not career success, are what people value most at the end of life. Such wisdom should be imparted to the young.

Two Verdicts in Two Days: How American Courts
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Naked Capitalism
Are Rewriting the Rules for Big Tech and Children. Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify. On March 24, 2026, a Santa Fe jury ordered Meta to pay US$375 million for violating New Mexico’s consumer protection laws. The next day, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google’s YouTube negligent in the design of their platforms, awarding almost $6 million in damages to a single plaintiff. The dollar figures are drawing headlines, but a $375 million penalty against a company worth $1.5 trillion is a rounding error. The award is less than 2% of Meta’s $22.8 billion net income in 2025. Meta’s stock rose 5% on the day of the New Mexico verdict, indicating how the market assessed the effect of the penalty on the company.

Contrary to Allegations, Data Show Little Fraud in Arizona School Choice Program
Topic: Children and Family
Source: Reason
Education freedom is under attack, including baseless accusations. Arizona's Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has long waged war against the state's school choice programs, reserving particular venom for Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA), which allow much per-pupil education funding to follow students to their preferred schooling. She's been assisted in her crusade by some media outlets which have amplified inaccurate stories about ESAs. But the ESA program remains not just wildly popular but, according to researchers, also well-managed.