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Today is Thursday, April 23rd, 2026. And we begin with a groundbreaking decision to crack down on screen time

in schools. Los Angeles is now the first major district in the U.S. to limit the use of iPads

and laptops after parents reported a drop in their kids' grades and an increase in unhealthy

habits, like playing video games, watching YouTube, and scrolling social media.

As reported by NBC News, the resolution requires the district to create screen time limits for

each grade, prohibits students in first grade and younger from using devices, encourages

pen and paper assignments, and clarifies the process for parents to opt out of tech for

their kids entirely. Anya Meksen, a mother of two in the district and deputy director of an advocacy

group called Schools Beyond Screens, says this is an historic reform that we hope will trickle down

to the rest of the country very, very quickly.

Billions of years ago, Mars may have been swimmable.

New evidence published in the journal Nature suggests the red planet once had a vast ocean covering one-third of its surface, making it look much more similar to Earth than it does today.

The telltale sign, a flat band of land outlining the former ocean that looks like the ring left

behind in a bathtub once it's drained.

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