Administration opposed efforts last year to expand use of cameras by immigration agents and cut oversight staffing

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Donald Trump’s administration opposed efforts to expand the use of body cameras by immigration officers and sharply cut oversight staffing as it surged officers into US cities, including Minneapolis, where agents have fatally shot two American citizen protesters in January.

Footage from bystanders of the two fatal shootings, including one by the border patrol that killed the ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, has underscored the power of video in checking official statements that have portrayed people who have been shot as provoking violent encounters with immigration officers.

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The actor gave evidence to allege Associated Newspapers Ltd used services of convicted phone hacker

The actor Sadie Frost has said she had “a price put on my head” by the publisher of the Daily Mail, as she accused it of repeatedly using information secured from her private calls and sensitive personal records.

Appearing in the high court, Frost said she was horrified by an email suggesting a Mail on Sunday journalist had confirmed to a convicted phone hacker that he was interested in information about her.

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Queensland government says it has already killed six of the 10 dingoes seen near the body of 19-year-old Piper James

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Dingo experts have said a decision to kill a 10-strong pack of the animals linked with the death of Canadian tourist Piper James on K’gari could push the island’s population towards extinction while doing little to protect humans.

The Queensland government revealed on Sunday it had already killed six of the pack seen around the body of the 19-year-old in a move that has angered the island’s traditional owners who have said they were not consulted.

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Friday 72-year-old Richard Stallman made a two-hour-and-20-minutes appearance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talking about everything from AI and connected cars to smartphones, age verfication laws, and his favorite Linux distro. But early on, Stallman also told the audience how "I despise DRM...I don't want any copy of anything with DRM. Whatever it is, I never want it so badly that I would bow down to DRM." (So he doesn't use Spotify or Netflix...)

This led to an interesting moment when someone asked him later if we have an ethical obligation to avoid piracy.. First Stallman swapped in his preferred phrase, "forbidden sharing"...

"I won't use the word piracy to refer to sharing. Sharing is good and it should be lawful. Those laws are wrong. Copyright as it is now is an injustice."

Stallman said "I don't hesitate to share copies of anything," but added that "I don't have copies of non-free software, because I'm disgusted by it." After a pause, he added this. "Just because there is a law to to give some people unjust power, that doesn't mean breaking that law becomes wrong....

"Dividing people by forbidding them to help each other is nasty."

And later Stallman was asked how he watches movies, if he's opposed to DRM-heavy sites like Netflix, and the DRM in Blu-ray discs? "The only way I can see a movie is if I get a file — you know, like an MP4 file or MKV file. And I would get that, I suppose, by copying from somebody else."

"Sharing is good. Stopping people from sharing is evil."

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Senator Chuck Schumer here, folks. Every single day, I fight tooth and nail against the MAGA agenda and Trump’s unconstitutional attacks on our democracy. Our President holds a blatant disregard for this country’s laws and institutions, making it a unique and increasingly urgent challenge to resist his goals of dismantling our government’s system of checks and balances and turning the United States into an authoritarian state. I need your undivided attention today, because what I’m about to show you is now our best chance at stopping Trump:

Introducing Trump’s Achilles heel: Mecha AllyGator. As you can see, hope is not lost, folks.

Today, I’m asking for the Democratic Party and the American public at large to rally around Mecha AllyGator, in all her technologically-enhanced reptiliality. Mecha AllyGator’s existence was revealed to me in a wet dream I experienced one month ago. She is a drop-dead gorgeous, winged, 17-foot-tall robot-alligator hybrid, bearing the powers of powerful flight, hypnotizing beauty, and animalistic savagery the likes of which Republicans could only dream of harnessing. Your support of Mecha AllyGator means the difference between tyranny and democracy. Trump is barely one year into his second term, but he’s already done as much catastrophic damage to our nation’s future as Mecha AllyGator could do to a deer (her preferred prey) between her titanium-plated jaws. Will you stand for the Trump administration’s assault on our civil liberties and social safety net? Or will you let the wonderful beast depicted in my drawing be your champion? If you care about America’s integrity and prosperity, the choice is obvious.

Democratic leadership has combatted the GOP using every strategy in the legislative playbook—except Mecha AllyGator. She’s not just a robot, or an alligator, or an angel: She’s our party’s way forward.

President Trump is well aware he wouldn’t stand a chance against Mecha AllyGator. I’ve shown him the above rendering I created of AllyGator on several occasions. The first time, President Trump had no response whatsoever. The second time, President Trump ignored me. The third time, President Trump, “I don’t know what the hell that is or what you want me to do with it, Chuck,” then had me removed from our meeting and from the White House premises. I believe Trump knows exactly what Mecha AllyGator is: The number one threat to his power. And it’s in our possession. As long as Republicans are disinterested in wooing Mecha AllyGator to their side, she will remain firmly on ours—provided I keep leaving deer carcasses on my lawn for her to feast on.

The GOP may control the executive office and both chambers of Congress. But they’ll never control Mecha AllyGator, so long as your Senate Minority Leader has any say.

The clock is ticking. There is no time to watch Trump undermine American values from the sidelines. I need the Resistance to share Mecha AllyGator far and wide. I humbly ask the American public, as its civil servant, to support Mecha AllyGator in any way you can, whether it’s using air traffic control glow-wands to point her towards D.C. as she soars past your house or simply clapping and cheering when she grabs hold of Stephen Miller with her incredible teeth and thrashes him around until he’s too bloodied and disoriented to do any more harm to our great nation. She’s our last opportunity to save this country from Trump plunging it past the point of no return. Will you join me?

De Britse premier Keir Starmer heeft voor één van zijn concurrenten de weg naar het Lagerhuis geblokkeerd. De partij is totaal verdeeld over zijn besluit. „Dit zal zijn ondergang bespoedigen.”

Grote bakken met kolen, oesterzwammen en huisgemaakte jam staan klaar voor vertrek. De verse producten komen uit de Voedselbanktuin en gaan rechtstreeks naar de voedselbanken in Schiedam. Het project bestaat al veertien jaar en draait volledig op vrijwilligers, subsidies en giften.

Researchers demonstrate fourfold improvement to LED steering results after enlisting the help of some good old-fashion AI

Boffins at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs are working to develop cheap and power efficient LEDs to replace lasers. One day, they let a trio of AI assistants loose in their lab.…