If four of the states suing Meta for allegedly fueling a teen mental health crisis prevail in their case, the company will be on the hook for a whopping $1.4 trillion in penalties, Meta says — a figure the tech giant blasted as “outlandish.” The Mark Zuckerberg-led company arrived at the gigantic sum — which is nearly as large as the company’s entire market cap — based on how the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey have argued penalties should be calculated if they win the case. The two sides are scheduled to face off in Oakland…

A rogue ex-Citi money man could face up to 25 years in prison after he admitted to looting $3.5 million from a trusting client’s life savings, according to court filings reviewed by The Post.  Disgraced investment adviser Sung Moo “Sam” Cho, 44, pleaded guilty on June 15 to wire and investment fraud in Brooklyn federal court for stealing the funds from a wealthy Franklin Lakes, NJ, resident to fund his lavish lifestyle, the filings show. He preyed on his unnamed victim between 2023 and 2025, spending the embezzled money on fancy vacations and expensive jewelry, as well as paying off student…

Gavin Newsom’s order requiring most California state employees to report to the office four days a week is officially in effect — but a growing number of state agencies are still advertising hybrid and remote jobs. The mandate, which took effect July 1, marked the end of the flexible telework arrangements many state workers adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic and applies to roughly 108,000 employees. But as of Monday, multiple job postings on the state’s CalCareers website continued to describe positions as either “telework eligible” or offering hybrid work schedules, raising fresh questions about how broadly the governor’s return-to-office directive…

These are not Texas values, Ken Paxton says Texas Attorney General and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Ken Paxton reacts to Rep. James Talarico’s, D-Texas., radical views on Christianity and gender on ‘Hannity.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is facing questions after fundraising with a “female-to-male” top surgeon who previously operated on minors shortly after saying that he does not support sex-change surgeries for children.Talarico, a progressive Democrat, state lawmaker and Presbyterian seminarian, is running a highly competitive race to flip a Texas Senate seat for the first time in decades. He…

A Bay Area restaurateur has gone viral for charging parents as much as $327 for failing to control their rowdy children at his Chinese eatery Chez Xue. You You Xue, who operates two restaurants south of San Francisco, says he’s slapped financial penalties on parents of spirited tots who smashed credit card readers, carved “designs” into tables using utensils and broke teacups at his Foster City restaurant. A parental advisory shared on Yelp and X instructs parents to “Please control your children.” “Chez Xu is a family-friendly restaurant. However, we are not a playground,” the message reads. Children are asked…

We’re all familiar with the internet boyfriends — you have your Glen Powells, Jacob Elordis, Timothée Chalamets and beyond — but Us Weekly has our eyes on a more underground group of swoon-worthy rising stars. They may not always have the lead role, be the team captains or have millions of Instagram followers, but something about these individuals catches our attention and has Us googling them shirtless for more. We’ve always known Zac Efron has it going on, but Dylan Efron’s unexpected rise to prominence on Traitors had Us looking up his Instagram — only to find it’s stock-full of…

Sean Payton almost turned the NFL upside down in 2024.  After watching legendary Patriots coach Bill Belichick leave New England following the 2023 season, Payton wanted Belichick to serve as the Broncos head coach while he’d become an assistant, according to ESPN.  While the idea didn’t come to fruition, Payton wanted to give Belichick the opportunity to break Don Shula’s all-time record of wins by a coach with 347.  Following 2023, Belichick was second all-time with 333 career wins, and Payton thought the Broncos would’ve helped Belichick get 15 wins and the record.  Payton considered pitching the idea to Broncos…

A team of conservationists has discovered and restored the tombstone of Sebastian, a formerly enslaved man who died free in 1729.”That discovery is likely one of the oldest gravestones of a free Black person in America,” Michelle Wu, the mayor of Boston, said in a July 4 speech. “It’s been there all along. We just had to go look and share the story.”The stone marker is inscribed with Sebastian’s chosen name, Boston, and features an image common in 17th- and early 18th-century tombstones in New England: the death’s head. The symbol includes a stylized skull flanked by wings, which were…

Ford is recalling more than 110,000 vehicles in the US across two separate safety campaigns after federal regulators identified defects involving windshield wipers and a rear drivetrain component that could increase crash risks. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the automaker is recalling 110,626 vehicles in two separate actions affecting certain Mustang, Mustang GTD and Mustang Mach-E models. The larger recall affects 67,842 Mustang and Mustang GTD vehicles. NHTSA said that under certain cold-weather conditions, the windshield wipers may operate only at the high-speed setting, while the windshield washer system may not function properly. The agency said the reduced visibility could…

The Trump administration on Monday canceled its waiver on Iranian oil sales after Tehran fired missiles at three ships near the Strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, calling the aggression “wholly unacceptable. “The Office of Foreign Assets Control is revoking GL X, which authorized the sale of Iranian oil,” a US official told The Post. “As President Trump and the administration have repeatedly affirmed, the MOU in effect with Iran is entirely performance-based.” It came as a response to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting three commercial ships of Gulf allies attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz. …