Once again, the Iowa Hawkeyes are leading ESPN to record audiences for women’s basketball.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Pornhub and other affiliated adult websites have blocked access to users in Texas, amid a legal battle with the Lone Star State’s attorney general over an age-verification law. Last week, a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures to ensure only adults 18 and older are able to access them, while it also struck down a part of the law requiring porn sites to display “health warnings” about the content.
That came after a previous federal judge’s ruling that the Texas law violated the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment prohibition against free-speech restrictions.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office immediately appealed that decision. A new message displayed Thursday to users with internet addresses in Texas on Pornhub (and other sites operated by parent company Aylo) explained that it was disabling access to comply with the law, as first reported by the Houston Chronicle.
“As you may know, your elected officials in Texas are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. Not only does this impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors,” the message reads in part.
The Pornhub sites’ message continued, “Until the real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Texas. In doing so, we are complying with the law, as we always do, but hope that governments around the world will implement laws that actually protect the safety and security of users.” According to the
.Once again, the Iowa Hawkeyes are leading ESPN to record audiences for women’s basketball.
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sons slammed the LA raid against her ex-boyfriend’s home, accusing the “overzealous” agents of using “militarized force” against her son.Misa Hylton posted surveillance video of Monday’s dramatic raid, where federal agents swarmed and busted into Diddy’s Holmby Hills mansion as part of an ongoing sex trafficking probe.Hylton, who is the mother of Diddy’s son Justin, 30, wrote in a caption alongside the footage: “Enough is Enough! Did Justin need several laser beams from firearms pointed at his chest??”Justin and his brother Christian, 25, were removed from the house during the raid and were shown in news footage cuffed on the lawn. They were not arrested and allowed to leave a short time later.Misa continued: “Did Christian need a gun pointed at the back of his head while he was handcuffed??“How many times have we seen young UNARMED BLACK MEN not make it out of these types of situations alive??”Footage of the raid which was carried out by Homeland Security as part of a sex trafficking investigation into Diddy, shows two heavily armored vehicles pulling up outside the Los Angeles home and a number of heavily armed agents getting out.Inside the house they can be seen using drones as they sweep the house, with guns drawn.
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temporary injunction blocking Paxton’s office from demanding the information, writing that “immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to PFLAG and its members” if Paxton’s office is able to obtain information about the group’s members, which number close to 600 in Texas alone. Under the terms of the restraining order, Paxton’s office may not attempt to stop PFLAG from operating for refusing to hand over documents and identifying information about its members, especially those who may have reached out to the national pro-LGBTQ advocacy group to determine how to seek gender-affirming care out of state.Paxton’s office may also not demand information from PFLAG revealing the identities of its members, officers, employees, lawyers, volunteers, or donors.Paxton’s office claimed their demand for PFLAG documents, issued in early February, was part of an effort to investigate whether medical providers were violating Texas’s law banning them from prescribing gender-affirming treatments like puberty blockers and hormones to minors.PFLAG filed a lawsuit last month asking for a temporary restraining order and relief to protect the identities and privacy of its members.
A senior SNP MP has branded new legislation aimed at stamping out hate crime as "McCarthyism".
Cardi B ended up singing Beyoncé’s ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ over and over on a TikTok livestream, eventually pleading with fans to make it stop.During livestreams on the app, fans can send silly filters to creators while they’re streaming and a clip from Cardi’s latest stream shows her with her face covered by a cowboy hat and moustache. Every time someone pressed on that filter, she sang the “This ain’t Texas” hook from ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ in a Southern accent, but eventually had to tell the viewers to stop pressing the button.“Alright stop, dead ass,” she said.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor A federal judge has dismissed all charges against seven social-media influencers the SEC and Justice Department had accused of perpetrating a “stock manipulation scheme” on Twitter and Discord. On Wednesday, March 20, U.S. District Judge Andrew S.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Searches by Texas users for the term “VPN” jumped more than fourfold after Pornhub and its parent company’s network of other pornography websites disabled access in the state this week, according to Google data. VPNs, or virtual private networks, establish an encrypted connection between a user and the public internet — and they can also mask the location of user, making it appear as if they’re accessing the internet from another state or country.
Bella Hadid is reportedly setting up a permanent residence in Texas as her romance with Adan Banuelos heats up.
A Texas woman was arrested after stepping in to teach her son’s bully a lesson — by allegedly poisoning him!
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and SXSW on Tuesday traded jabs on social media in response to a group of as many as 60 bands who have pulled out of Austin-based festival to protest its sponsor ties to the U.S. Army, as well as its inclusion of defense contractors taking part in some of the fest’s conference programs.
Beyoncé is a little too young to have watched the “Carter Country” sitcom that aired on ABC from 1977 to 1979 — when Richard Paul’s Mayor Teddy Burnside character would dismissively tell his subordinates to “Handle it, handle it.” Well, five decades later, the new boss of “Carter Country” is none other than Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.On Tuesday, the hottest new cowgirl in the game announced that “Carter Country” would be the title of the country-themed “Act II” of her “Renaissance” trilogy — in a nod to her married name as the wife of Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter.Anticipation has been building to Country Bey’s album-length arrival after she dropped the twangy twosome of “Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages” on Super Bowl night Feb. 11.
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were moved to tears recently during a heartfelt visit to the family of a brave teacher. The Duchess of Sussex, who recently gave a rare insight into their family life in the US, and the Duke Of Sussex visited the loved ones of Irma Garcia, 48, who heroically gave her life to protect her young students during a tragic school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Sadly, two days after the incident, Irma's husband Joe passed away from heartbreak.
Hannah Einbinder was moved to tears. Nick Thune was moved to sing. John Leguizamo shared hard truths.
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Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves are proud to live in Texas. The couple, who met in Los Angeles and had their kids there, has recently launched a tequila brand called Pantalones, their first public venture together. In a new interview, they’ve discussed life in Texas and why they chose to relocate there after living in Los Angeles for years.
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Entrepreneur Mark Cuban says that he’ll vote for Joe Biden over Donald Trump, going so far as to say that he’d back the current president vs. his likely challenger even if “he was being given last rites.”