A Sarasota County jury convicted 2026 trial defendant Larry Wayne Riddle on three child sexual offense charges stemming from abuse that happened while he was staying with a family at their Sarasota vacation home during Spring Break. Judge Andrea DeCanio sentenced Riddle Thursday to 65.65 years in prison, the maximum allowed under Florida law, and...Read More

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Eleven suspects were arrested after a multiagency operation targeted individuals across Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma who allegedly attempted to solicit children for sexual activity online. Fayetteville police partnered with Homeland Security Investigations, the Arkansas State Police Human Trafficking Task Force and the Arkansas Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. ...Read More

BEND Ore. (KPTV) – Thursday’s deadly shooting at an elementary school is not the first time a loaded gun was brought onto a Bend-La Pine school campus, according to a district safety report from last year.We found the report, which was published after a student brought a loaded gun to school on Oct. 21, 2024.In...Read More

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Private School-College Parent Organisations Coordinating Committee has urged the state govt to reject the interim report of the special house committee chaired by MLC Puttanna, alleging that its recommendations to relax regulatory requirements for schools could compromise child safety and the quality of education.In a representation dated Friday, the committee objected to...Read More

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach joins Stuart Varney to discuss why eight states are suing OpenAI. Kobach alleges ChatGPT misled parents and endangered children by encouraging self-harm and providing bad medical advice. Eight states are suing OpenAI over child safety concerns regarding its chatbot, ChatGPT. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach tells Stuart Varney that the...Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 16, 2026 CONTACT: [email protected] ICYMI: Vivek Ramaswamy Airs Ad Featuring Convicted Child Sex Offender COLUMBUS, OH– On Wednesday, new reporting revealed that Vivek Ramaswamy  aired an ad featuring a child sex predator who was sentenced to 8 years in prison. See coverage below: On the Airwaves: On CW: Anchor: “The campaign...Read More

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Discord, accusing the popular gaming communication platform of exposing children to sexual predators while misleading parents about safety. The state is seeking sweeping changes to age verification, stronger protections and potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties.TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is taking aim...Read More

Florida secured a big legal win Wednesday when the court ruled to allow the state to enforce its social media ban for kids. NEW: The 11th Circuit allowed Florida to enforce its ban on social media accounts for children under 14 and its parental consent requirement for ages 14–15, ruling that the restrictions likely do...Read More

By Darius Tahir The U.S. Senate candidates in Texas could hardly be more different: James Talarico, a former seminarian turned Democratic state lawmaker who speaks in calm cadences about love and empathy, and Ken Paxton, the pugnacious Republican state attorney general who speaks about a refusal to compromise. They share an enemy, though. They dislike...Read More

The year 2026 has been an expensive one for social media platforms. Since March, YouTube and Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, have settled or paid out in multiple lawsuits to the tune of more than US$17 billion for allegedly acting negligently, deliberately designing their platforms to hook kids and misleading the public...Read More