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Seventeen midwestern states this summer will experience the sight and sound of trillions of cicadas hatching in a phenomenon not seen since Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. We talk with an Ohio professor who developed an app to track cicadas.

A federal judge blocked Ohio's social media law requiring parental permission for users 16-years-old.

A federal judge has temporarily halted enforcement of an Ohio law that would require children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps.

A bill proposed by Ohio House Democrats would establish rules to protect children who earn money with their content on social media.

The Social Media Parental Notification Act would require social media and gaming sites to get parental permission before letting any Ohioan younger than 16 onto their platforms.

The new law was part of Ohio’s two-year state budget signed into law in July.

Closing the digital divide was the goal of the infrastructure bill the Biden administration passed two years ago.

The Ohio House had stripped out the social media ban for kids under 16, which raised questions after Gov. Mike DeWine put it in his initial budget proposal, but Senate Republicans restored it.

At a time of rising rates of depression and anxiety among teens, the American Psychological Association warns parents that their children need more protection when they are online.

Studies link social media to aspects of America's mental health crisis in adolescents. A handful of bipartisan members of the Senate hope to change that.