Cities across the US have developed novel tactics to protect their residents from federal immigration agents

As federal immigration agents flooded the streets of Minneapolis, Chicago and Los Angeles over the past year, cities across the US have been at the frontlines of strategizing over how to protect their residents, should Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents come to their communities.

From Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new – and creative – tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE. Here’s a look at a few.

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Researchers find DMT – used in shamanic rituals – in tandem with psychotherapy has significant effect

People with major depressive disorder can see a rapid and lasting improvement after a single dose of the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT) when it is combined with psychotherapy, doctors have said.

A small clinical trial involving 34 people found that psychedelic-assisted therapy prompted a swift reduction in depressive symptoms that endured long after the drug had worn off, with some still feeling the benefits six months later.

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Ook in de krokusvakantie gaan de wegwerkzaamheden door. Vier nachten wordt er gewerkt aan de Beneluxtunnel (A4). De afrit Crooswijk van de A20 is twee nachten dicht. Op het metrospoor wordt gewerkt bij station Dijkzigt in Rotterdam.

Woonwagenbewoners worden al decennia gediscrimineerd door gemeenten, vinden velen van hen. Hun betrokkenheid bij de politiek is laag. Kandidaat-raadslid en ‘reiziger’ Willem Schneider van CDA Maastricht probeert medestanders op 18 maart toch naar de stembus te krijgen.

Er wordt veel gesproken over het verwerken van asielaanvragen van migranten buiten de EU. Instituut Clingendael heeft op verzoek van het demissionaire kabinet de mogelijkheden in kaart gebracht – van het Albanië- tot het Oeganda-model.

Unnamed consultant – one of a dozen cases at the company's Australian arm – now nursing a fine

AIpocolypse  A partner at accounting and consultancy giant KPMG in Australia was forced to cough up a AU$10k ($7,084/ £5,195) fine after he used AI to ace an internal training course on... AI.…

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Sony is considering delaying the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029 as a global shortage of memory chips -- driven by the AI industry's rapidly growing appetite for the same DRAM that goes into gaming hardware, smartphones, and laptops -- squeezes supply and sends prices surging, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

A delay of that magnitude would upend Sony's carefully orchestrated strategy to sustain user engagement between hardware generations. The shortage traces back to Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron diverting the bulk of their manufacturing toward high-bandwidth memory for Nvidia's AI accelerators, leaving less capacity for conventional DRAM. The cost of one type of DRAM jumped 75% between December and January alone. Nintendo is also contemplating raising the price of its Switch 2 console in 2026.

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