Evanston, Illinois, is set to issue $25,000 cash payments to 44 Black residents as part of its reparations program, according to Fox News. The program, established in 2019 and approved by the City Council in 2021, aims to provide direct financial assistance to Black residents and descendants of Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. This makes Evanston the first city in the nation to pass a reparations plan, pledging $10 million over a decade.
Meanwhile, the FBI has released images of a masked person in connection to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of news anchor Savannah Guthrie, as reported by BBC World. Authorities are seeking to identify the individual, who they say was armed, more than eight days after Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona, home on January 31st. Savannah Guthrie stated her family believes her mother is still alive and has issued a new appeal for information.
In other news, a pilot in Somalia has been praised for crash-landing a faulty passenger plane on the shoreline next to the capital's international airport, saving all 55 people on board, according to BBC World. The Starsky Aviation pilot's quick thinking was crucial in the incident, which occurred after the Fokker 50 aircraft experienced a technical fault shortly after takeoff from Mogadishu on Tuesday morning. The plane failed to stop on the runway after returning to the airport.
In the technology sector, Apple and Google have agreed to make changes to their app stores in the UK following an intervention from the UK markets regulator, as reported by BBC Technology. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that the tech giants have committed to not giving preferential treatment to their own apps and will be transparent about how others are approved for sale. The CMA's head, Sarah Cardell, said the proposed commitments "will boost the UK's app economy."
Also in technology, the world's largest social media companies are facing accusations of creating "addiction machines" as a landmark trial began in California examining the mental health effects of Instagram and YouTube, according to BBC Technology. Mark Lanier, the lawyer for the plaintiff, argued that his client, "K.G.M.," suffered from mental health issues as a result of her social media addiction. "These companies built machines designed to addict the brains of children, and they did it on purpose," Lanier said. Lawyers for Meta and YouTube countered that K.G.M.'s addiction stemmed from other issues in her life.
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