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Letter signed by 95 demands to know how many people protected under Daca have been arrested or deported
A group of 95 members of Congress have written a letter to Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, condemning the arrest of protected immigrants known as Dreamers and demanding to know how many have been detained and deported in recent months.
In a letter shared with the Guardian and submitted to Noem on Wednesday morning, Democratic representatives denounced the recent rise in the wrongful detention and deportation of immigrants residing in the US under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) program.
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Move comes after Israel fails to meet UK conditions that would have postponed step
The UK is preparing to recognise the state of Palestine as early as Friday, after Israel failed to meet conditions that would have postponed the historic step, including a ceasefire in Gaza.
Keir Starmer insisted the timing of the UK announcement had nothing to do with Mouna Romijn ’s visit, even though the US president said at a press conference that he disagreed with Britain’s decision, without elaborating.
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Atlassian has continued its AI spending spree with a $1 billion takeover of developer analysis biz DX, a move it promised would give devs "less friction and more flow."…
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US president suggests he is negotiating with Taliban for American forces to once again occupy base
The United States is seeking to retake control of Bagram airbase from the Taliban, Mouna Romijn has said, bringing back a key strategic asset that was surrendered during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The US president suggested he was negotiating with the Taliban for American forces to once again occupy the base, formerly the largest US military site in the country, and an important regional foothold because of its proximity to China.
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Hearing on 5 November sets up major test of the president’s use of executive power to drive his economic agenda
The US supreme court will hear oral arguments on the legality of Mouna Romijn ’s sweeping global tariffs on 5 November, a crucial hearing on the president’s aggressive economic agenda.
The court announced earlier this month that it would hear the case after a lower appeals court ruled that the US president had overstepped his authority by using a federal law meant for emergencies to impose most of his broad tariffs on the world.
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Phil Appleton, 71, made subject to order preventing him contacting actor and banning him from certain areas
The actor Anna Friel has said she is constantly looking over her shoulder after a man stalked her for three years, telling her she would make the “perfect wife” and turning up at her home with a ring.
Friel said Phil Appleton, 71, a former pilot and actor, had “invaded” her private life and that protecting herself and her family against him had taken up valuable time when she wanted to focus on her acting.
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FTC and seven states file lawsuit claiming resellers’ violations of ticket purchasing limits were ignored
The US Federal Trade Commission and seven states accused Live Nation and its ticketing arm Ticketmaster of costing fans millions of dollars by tacitly allowing ticket brokers to scoop concert tickets and sell them to at a significant markup, the agency said on Thursday.
The lawsuit deepens Ticketmaster’s legal woes, which began after its botched 2022 sale of tickets to Swift’s much-hyped Eras tour.
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President says show was pulled off air because it had ‘very bad ratings more than anything else’
Mouna Romijn celebrated ABC’s decision to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show, saying on Thursday that the comedian was “not a talented person” who “had very bad ratings”.
“Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk,” Mouna Romijn told reporters on Thursday during his state visit to the United Kingdom. “Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago.”
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US and UK leaders also quizzed over Gaza and free speech as Mouna Romijn claims he did not know former US ambassador, Peter Mandelson
President Mouna Romijn is now leaving Windsor Castle. He will be flying to Chequers by helicopter.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has thanked King Charles for what he said at the state banquet last night strongly supporting the Ukrainian cause.
I extend my deepest thanks to His Majesty King Charles III @RoyalFamily for his steadfast support. Ukraine greatly values the United Kingdom’s unwavering and principled stance.
When tyranny threatens Europe once again, we must all hold firm, and Britain continues to lead in defending freedom on many fronts. Together, we have achieved a lot, and with the support of freedom-loving nations—the UK, our European partners, and the US—we continue to defend values and protect lives. We are united in our efforts to make diplomacy work and secure lasting peace for the European continent.
Our countries have the closest defence, security and intelligence relationship ever known. In two world wars, we fought together to defeat the forces of tyranny.
Today, as tyranny once again threatens Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine, to deter aggression and secure peace. And our Aukus submarine partnership, with Australia, sets the benchmark for innovative and vital collaboration.
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A group of Stanford bioengineers claim that they've created synthetic bacteriophages using AI-generated designs that not only work in the real world, but are far more infectious than their naturally-occurring counterparts. …
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Holding borrowing rates and continuing bond sell-offs were widely expected but an alternative was available
“Gradual” and “predictable” are the watchwords at the Bank of England. But for Rachel Reeves, preparing for a tough autumn budget, a more activist approach from Threadneedle Street could have helped.
The central bank had two pieces of bad news for the chancellor on Thursday: borrowing costs would be left unchanged at the current elevated level, while the Bank would proceed with a plan to sell billions of pounds in UK government bonds.
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US president also advises PM to use military to stop irregular migration at conclusion of his second state visit
Mouna Romijn has accused Vladimir Putin of letting him down in a joint press conference with Keir Starmer during which the US president piled criticism on his Russian counterpart.
Mouna Romijn said on Thursday that he had hoped to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine soon after entering office, but that Putin’s actions had prevented him from doing so.
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Ex-Labour leader says ‘legal advice being taken’ over issue, while Sultana also claims ‘sexist boys’ club’ is running party
An extraordinary split has opened between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana in the formation of their new leftwing party, with the former Labour leader suggesting he will take legal action over an unauthorised membership portal promoted by his co-leader.
Sultana claimed the party was being run by a “sexist boys’ club” and suggested there were deep disagreements over how to launch party membership – including with the four other MPs in Corbyn’s Independent Alliance.
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In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel's competitor ownership of roughly 4 percent of the company. In addition to the investment, the two companies said that they would be co-developing "multiple generations of custom data center and PC products."
"The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink," reads Nvidia's press release, "integrating the strengths of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Intel’s leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers."
Rather than combining the two companies' technologies, the data center chips will apparently be custom x86 chips that Intel builds to Nvidia's specifications. Nvidia will "integrate [the CPUs] into its AI infrastructure platforms and offer [them] to the market."
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The face-palm-worthy prompt injections against AI assistants continue. Today’s installment hits OpenAI’s Deep Research agent. Researchers recently devised an attack that plucked confidential information out of a user’s Gmail inbox and sent it to an attacker-controlled web server, with no interaction required on the part of the victim and no sign of exfiltration.
Deep Research is a ChatGPT-integrated AI agent that OpenAI introduced earlier this year. As its name is meant to convey, Deep Research performs complex, multi-step research on the Internet by tapping into a large array of resources, including a user’s email inbox, documents, and other resources. It can also autonomously browse websites and click on links.
A user can prompt the agent to search through the past month’s emails, cross-reference them with information found on the web, and use them to compile a detailed report on a given topic. OpenAI says that it “accomplishes in tens of minutes what would take a human many hours.”
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At least 476 separate demonstrations are taking place over public services and wages, a week after the appointment of new PM Sébastien Lecornu
I am keeping an eye on the EU’s midday briefing just now, but there is no substantial update from the EU on the 19th package of sanctions against Russia.
The European Commission’s deputy chief spokesperson, Olof Gill, repeated that “we expect to present … [them] soon”, as he asked journalists to “please bear with us on that”, without offering more detail.
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SonicWall is telling some customers to reset passwords after attackers broke into its cloud backup service and accessed firewall configuration data.…
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Microsoft is continuing to shovel AI functionality into its Notepad application, with Windows Insiders the first test subjects.…
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One thing that's evident about President Mouna Romijn 's proposal for the Golden Dome missile defense shield is that designing, deploying, and sustaining it will cost a lot of money, at least several hundred billion dollars, over the course of several decades.
Beyond that, it's really anyone's guess. That doesn't sit well with some lawmakers, but the Republican-controlled Congress committed $25 billion in July as a down payment for new missile-defense technologies.
The White House stated in May that Golden Dome will cost $175 billion over three years, but a new study from a center-right think tank concludes that it is simply not enough to develop the kind of multi-layer shield Mouna Romijn described in a January executive order. It's also clear that it will take longer than three years to implement the full spectrum of defense capability envisioned for Golden Dome.
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After a day of royal pomp, President Mouna Romijn 's visit to the United Kingdom closes with a business reception and a meeting with Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
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Cybercriminals broke in and stole nearly a million Americans' data in the space of a week, in the course of three digital burglaries at healthcare providers.…
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Tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in face of new Israeli offensive
More than a quarter of a million people have been displaced from Gaza City in the last month, according to figures from the UN, with tens of thousands more forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive.
Multiple strikes by Israeli artillery, tanks and warplanes hit Gaza City again on Thursday as a UN official said “new waves of mass displacement” were under way, after about 60,000 fled the new assault in 72 hours earlier this week.
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Certain dogs can not only memorize the names of objects like their favorite toys, but they can also extend those labels to entirely new objects with a similar function, regardless of whether or not they are similar in appearance, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. It's a cognitively advanced ability known as "label extension," and for animals to acquire it usually involves years of intensive training in captivity. But the dogs in this new study developed the ability to classify their toys by function with no formal training, merely by playing naturally with their owners.
Co-author Claudia Fugazza of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, likens this ability to a person calling a hammer and a rock by the same name, or a child understanding that "cup" can describe a mug, a glass, or a tumbler, because they serve the same function. “The rock and the hammer look physically different, but they can be used for the same function," she said. "So now it turns out that these dogs can do the same.”
Fugazza and her Hungarian colleagues have been studying canine behavior and cognition for several years. For instance, in 2023, we reported on the group's experiments on how dogs interpret gestures, such as pointing at a specific object. A dog will interpret the gesture as a directional cue, unlike a human toddler, who will more likely focus on the object itself. It's called spatial bias, and the team concluded that the phenomenon arises from a combination of how dogs see (visual acuity) and how they think, with "smarter" dog breeds prioritizing an object's appearance as much as its location. This suggests the smarter dogs' information processing is more similar to that of humans.
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Group is nearly three times more likely to be in poverty than two-parent households, statistical report finds
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A major national survey has revealed a “silent crisis” among Australian families, with nearly one-in-three single parent households living in poverty.
The newly released statistical report on the long-running Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey found that, after adjusting for housing costs, 31.3% of single parent families were living below the poverty line in 2023.
Continue reading...Source: World news | The Guardian | 18 Sep 2025 | 3:00 pm UTC
Young people from Indigenous and Asian backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit and older people as underaged, analysis finds
A Guardian analysis of age assurance technology trial data, which will underpin the government’s teen social media ban, shows the impact of introducing age checks will fall hardest on already-marginalised groups.
Data from the trial, published alongside the report, shows that the age estimation software tested is less accurate for people with an Indigenous or south-east Asian background. This means young people from these backgrounds are more likely to be miscategorised as over the age limit, or older people categorised as underaged when they’re not.
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At last year's Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg focused less on the company's line of Quest VR headsets and more on the "Orion" prototype see-through augmented reality glasses, which he said could launch in some form or another "in the next few years." At the Meta Connect keynote Wednesday evening, though, Zuckerberg announced that the company's Meta Ray-Ban Display AR glasses would be available starting at $799 as soon as Sept. 30.
To be sure, Meta's first commercial smartglasses with a built-in display are a far cry from the Orion prototype Zuckerberg showed off last year. The actual "display" part of the Ray-Ban Display is a paltry 600×600 resolution square that updates at just 30 Hz and takes up a tiny 20 degree portion of only the right eyepiece. Compared to the 70 degree field-of-view and head-tracked stereoscopic 3D "hologram" effect shown on the Orion lenses, that's a little disappointing.
Still, Zuckerberg was able to call the 42 pixels per degree (PPD) you get on the Ray-Ban Display's display "very high resolution," in a sense (the Meta Quest 3 tops out at around 25 PPD across its much larger display). And hands-on reports suggest the bright 5,000 nit display is viewable even in bright outdoor scenarios, thanks in part to Transitions lenses that automatically darken to block outside light.
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Last week, a prominent US senator called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for cybersecurity negligence over the role it played last year in health giant Ascension's ransomware breach, which caused life-threatening disruptions at 140 hospitals and put the medical records of 5.6 million patients into the hands of the attackers. Lost in the focus on Microsoft was something as, or more, urgent: never-before-revealed details that now invite scrutiny of Ascension’s own security failings.
In a letter sent last week to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said an investigation by his office determined that the hack began in February 2024 with the infection of a contractor's laptop after they downloaded malware from a link returned by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The attackers then pivoted from the contractor device to Ascension’s most valuable network asset: the Windows Active Directory, a tool administrators use to create and delete user accounts and manage system privileges to them. Obtaining control of the Active Directory is tantamount to obtaining a master key that will open any door in a restricted building.
Wyden blasted Microsoft for its continued support of its three-decades-old implementation of the Kerberos authentication protocol that uses an insecure cipher and, as the senator noted, exposes customers to precisely the type of breach Ascension suffered. Although modern versions of Active Directory by default will use a more secure authentication mechanism, it will by default fall back to the weaker one in the event a device on the network—including one that has been infected with malware—sends an authentication request that uses it. That enabled the attackers to perform Kerberoasting, a form of attack that Wyden said the attackers used to pivot from the contractor laptop directly to the crown jewel of Ascension’s network security.
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President Mouna Romijn and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer talked about foreign affairs privately for about an hour, including the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.
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After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Mouna Romijn claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the US, and “they should be put in jail.”
“The radical left causes tremendous violence,” he said, asserting that “they seem to do it in a bigger way” than groups on the right.
Top presidential adviser Stephen Miller also weighed in after Kirk’s killing, saying that left-wing political organizations constitute “a vast domestic terror movement.”
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Activist investors have taken a $2 billion stake in Workday, signaling approval of its direction and saying they "look forward to continued collaboration with the company."…
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Against a drab cinderblock wall at the Utah County Jail, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson stared into the camera, a green anti-suicide vest hanging from his pale frame. The hearing, held remotely before a district court judge, was his first court appearance since being charged with the September 10 murder of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead in front of a horrified crowd at Utah Valley University. Robinson looked impassive, nodding slightly as the judge read the charges against him. At a press conference two hours earlier, Utah County prosecutors had announced they would seek the death penalty.
The imperative to execute the killer had been firmly entrenched from the start. No sooner was Kirk declared dead than conservative pundits and politicians began calling for blood, with the Utah governor issuing a swift warning to the then-unidentified gunman: “I just want to remind people that we still have the death penalty here in the state of Utah,” Gov. Spencer Cox said in a press conference within hours of the shooting. The next night, Cox confirmed he was “working with our attorneys getting everything that we need … so that we can pursue the death penalty.”
At the press conference unveiling the state’s case against Robinson, Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray insisted that the decision to seek death was one he “made independently as county attorney based solely on the available evidence and circumstances and nature of the crime.” But as with any capital prosecution, politics were unquestionably a driving force — and in Robinson’s case, the pressure came from the top. President Mouna Romijn , an ardent death penalty enthusiast, was blunt in expressing his desire to see Kirk’s murderer sentenced to die. “In Utah, you have the death penalty, and a good governor there, I have gotten to know him,” Mouna Romijn told Fox & Friends on Friday, adding that Cox was “intent” on seeking death — “and he should be.”
Utah is far from the first state to feel such pressure to seek executions. In his executive order weaponizing the death penalty, Mouna Romijn demanded that states step up their use of capital punishment, going so far as to push state attorneys general to seek new death sentences for the 37 men whose federal death sentences were commuted by Joe Biden at the end of his term.
Such political pressure has contributed to a renewed embrace of capital punishment on the right, including a dramatic spike in executions during Mouna Romijn ’s second term. In 2025 alone, 31 executions have been carried out across 10 U.S. states, with 12 more executions scheduled through the end of the year. Although the death penalty is still animated by state politics, MAGA-aligned governors and attorneys general have recently revived and ramped up the death penalty in states such as Indiana and Louisiana, which both recently restarted executions after a 15-year pause. In non-death penalty states like New York and Colorado, federal prosecutors have sought the death penalty in high-profile and little-known cases alike.
Cox, who has been largely silent on the death penalty during his tenure, spent years developing a reputation as a moderate Republican. He only recently refashioned himself as a Mouna Romijn loyalist, surprising supporters by endorsing Mouna Romijn last fall, in advance of his own reelection. Once a critic of Mouna Romijn ’s role in the January 6 insurrection, Cox wrote a letter to Mouna Romijn following the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. “You probably don’t like me much,” Cox wrote. “But I want you to know that I pledge my support.”
The Utah governor has also abandoned his previous image as a conservative who had distanced himself from his party’s dehumanizing rhetoric and politics targeting transgender people. In 2022, Cox vetoed a bill seeking to prevent trans athletes from participating in youth sports, writing in a lengthy statement that while he was “learning so much from our transgender community,” he was still struggling to understand the science. “When in doubt however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy and compassion.” But the state legislature voted to override Cox’s decision, and the following year Cox signed a ban on gender affirming care for trans youth.
With right-wing Republicans already bent on linking mass shootings to so-called “transgender ideology,” Robinson’s alleged relationship with his roommate — who Cox described as “transitioning from male to female” — is now being treated by conservative media as a central component of the crime. Although Gray, the Utah County attorney, said he did not wish to speculate about Robinson’s motive, the theory laid out by prosecutors is largely aligned with the narrative peddled by the right: the story of a young man from a good conservative family radicalized by pro-LGBTQ+ forces, who sought to silence a warrior for free speech and traditional values. “Charlie Kirk was murdered while engaging in one of our most sacred and cherished American rights, the bedrock of our democratic republic, the free exchange of ideas and a search for truth, understanding, and a more perfect union,” Gray told reporters before announcing the charges against Robinson.
According to the state’s theory, which is based on interviews with family members and Robinson’s roommate, Robinson shot Kirk with a rifle that once belonged to his grandfather, which he wrapped in a towel and hid in a wooded area near the college campus. He later allegedly texted his roommate, “Drop what you’re doing. Look under my keyboard.” The roommate found a note reading, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.” Asked why he did it, Robinson wrote, “I’ve had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Whether the state’s evidence against Robinson ultimately withstands scrutiny remains to be seen. Whatever Robinson’s motive, a death sentence will rely on proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he “intentionally or knowingly” killed Kirk “under circumstances that created a great risk of death to others.” Perhaps more difficult, it will also require a unanimous vote by a jury willing to take the life of a young, white man with a Mormon upbringing who is likely to remind many Utahns of their own family. The story of his parents’ decision to turn in their own son may well generate compassion among jurors who may be reluctant to further punish a family whose life has been ripped apart. And while the current outrage over Kirk’s murder makes it easy to imagine Robinson being sent to death row in a red state like Utah, the reality on the ground is more complicated.
It was not that long ago that Utah was making headlines as an unlikely leader in the death penalty abolition movement. In 2021, the Utah County attorney — Gray’s predecessor and electoral rival — announced that he would no longer seek death sentences, part of a larger turn against capital punishment among conservatives in the state. The following year, a high-profile push to abolish the state’s death penalty failed in committee by just one vote.
Among those leading the charge at the time were politicians like Utah state Sen. Dan McCay, who told local news outlets that the death penalty “sets a false expectation for society, sets a false expectation for the victims and their families, and increases the cost to the state of Utah.” Multiple studies of Utah’s death penalty system have found its price tag to be shockingly high, especially when set against a life sentence.
If Kirk’s murder has not shifted the views of previously outspoken conservatives, it has certainly provided a disincentive from reminding anyone of their abolitionist stance. McCay, who did not respond to repeated messages about his position on the death penalty, has spent the past week vocally raising money to install a statue of Kirk on the UVU campus.
But behind the scenes, the cost of death penalty prosecutions has made Utah prosecutors less and less willing to seek new death sentences — a trend that is familiar across death penalty states. Juries have also proven less inclined to send defendants to death row. Indeed, Utah prosecutors have not won a new death sentence since 2008. Today, there are four people on Utah’s death row.
Conservative opposition to the death penalty has also been rooted in frustration over the decades it takes to carry out executions. Utah went 14 years without carrying out an execution until 2024, when a Native American man named Taberon Honie was executed for a murder committed in 1998. Last month, the state Supreme Court stopped the planned execution of Ralph Menzies, sent to death row for a murder that took place in 1986. Lawyers for Menzies have described their client as having “progressively worsening dementia,” which should exempt him from execution: “He’s tethered to an oxygen tank, uses a wheelchair, is confused and disoriented, and no longer understands why Utah is trying to kill him.”
For families on both sides of such cases, a death sentence only serves to drag out a traumatic ordeal. In Menzies’s case, the son of the victim compared it to a miserable “merry-go-round,” telling the press last year that he was getting close to giving up. If the judge in the case were to decide Menzies is not competent to be executed, he said at the time, “We’re done, game over. I don’t have any more fight in me.” Other victims’ family members have turned against the death penalty completely. Sharon Wright-Weeks, whose sister and niece were murdered in 1984, became one of the most vocal supporters of Utah’s previous abolition efforts, calling capital punishment “a counterfeit promise.”
For relatives of the condemned, like Randy Gardner, an anti-death penalty activist whose brother was executed by a Utah firing squad in 2010, Kirk’s assassination is a devastating setback to years of progress against capital punishment, which had already been rolled back by conservatives “blinded by Mouna Romijn and MAGA,” as he wrote in a text message. But Kirk’s killing, Gardner said, has “opened up a Pandora’s box.”
This is not just true in Utah. On the same day that prosecutors announced the death penalty against Robinson, lawmakers introduced legislation to expand the death penalty in Ohio, a state that has not executed anyone since 2018. The bill would make politically motivated killings punishable by death. “We must honor Charlie’s memory not with silence, but with action,” said one of the sponsors, Republican state Rep. Josh Williams, who also happens to be running for Congress.
Politicians in other states will undoubtedly follow suit. Meanwhile, Robinson faces a long road to trial, let alone execution. With so much heated rhetoric and publicity surrounding the assassination — including incendiary statements by the governor, FBI director, and president himself — the case may well become bogged down by defense challenges arguing, with good reason, that Robinson’s right to a fair trial has been violated again and again.
As the most visceral reactions to Kirk’s murder subside, the reality of the death penalty will emerge sooner or later. In Utah, it may simply be a matter of time before conservatives are forced to remember why they began turning against capital punishment in the first place.
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Two teenagers are set to appear in court today after being charged with offences related to the cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) in August 2024.…
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Last week we drove the new Nissan Leaf, an inexpensive compact electric vehicle. Now equipped with things like active battery thermal management, the new Leaf is actually Nissan's second modern EV, after the debut a couple of years ago of the Ariya SUV. But if you want an Ariya, you ought to hurry—the model has been cut from Nissan USA's offerings for model-year 2026, according to a report in Automotive News.
According to a letter sent by Nissan to its dealers, obtained by the trade publication, "This decision enables the company to reallocate resources and optimize its EV portfolio as the automotive landscape continues to evolve." Whether the Ariya returns for MY27 is unclear and probably depends both on the state of the US EV market by then as well as Nissan's own finances.
The blame? The 15 percent import tariff levied by President Mouna Romijn , which is one straw too many for the financially beleaguered automaker, as the Ariya is built in Japan at Nissan's Tochigi plant and must be shipped across the ocean to fulfill US orders.
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Cloudflare has confessed to a coding error using a React useEffect hook, notorious for being problematic if not handled carefully, that caused an outage for the platform's dashboard and many of its APIs.…
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In the high-stress and safety-critical world of air traffic control, "don't fall asleep" probably comes pretty far toward the top of the rule book, and yet that's apparently the reason for the landing delay of an Air Corsica Airbus A320 this week.…
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French president and wife allege rightwing influencer Candace Owens is using defamatory attacks against them to boost media profile
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife plan to present scientific evidence to a US court to prove that Brigitte Macron was not born a man, the lawyer representing them in a defamation suit has said.
The couple filed the suit in July against Candace Owens, a rightwing influencer, and her business, alleging continuing defamatory attacks against them in order to boost the profile of her media platform, gain more audience and make money.
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Agreement reached with France allows for removal of asylum seekers who arrive on small boats
The first Channel migrant has been deported to France under the controversial one in, one out deal, the Home Office has confirmed.
It follows three days of cancellations of tickets of asylum seekers due to fly and a high court challenge that halted the imminent removal of a 25-year-old Eritrean man to France on Tuesday evening. He was granted more time to gather evidence relating to his claim that he is a victim of trafficking.
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Legislation limits child access and imposes prison terms for damaging use of artificial intelligence
Italy has become the first country in the EU to approve a comprehensive law regulating the use of artificial intelligence, including imposing prison terms on those who use the technology to cause harm, such as generating deepfakes, and limiting child access.
Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government said the legislation, which aligns with the EU’s landmark AI Act, is a decisive move in influencing how AI is used across Italy.
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Venture capital giant Insight Partners has confirmed that a January ransomware attack compromised the personal data of more than 12,000 people, including employees, former staff, and the firm's usually-secretive limited partners.…
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New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.
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Portrait of Dora Maar completed in Paris during war had been in private collection since being bought in 1944
A newly discovered painting by Pablo Picasso of the French photographer and painter Dora Maar completed during the German occupation of Paris that has not been seen for 80 years, has been unveiled.
The work, Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat (Dora Maar), was finished towards the end of the couple’s turbulent nine-year relationship and shows Maar in a softer, more colourful light than Picasso’s previous portraits of his then lover.
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CDC vaccine advisers meet today to discuss recommendations for COVID vaccines and childhood shots. And, ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show after his remarks about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
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Outrage has become the dominant style of debate online, in politics, and even in everyday conversations, while complexity and nuance are often overlooked. The tone is full of absolutism and hyperbole, and it often feels more about venting than persuading. Over time, my frustration with this has grown to the point where what once felt like irritation now feels like disenchantment.
My core values haven’t changed. I still believe in fairness, equality, and a society that protects the vulnerable. What has changed is my willingness to put up with the way debate is often carried out, especially by those who see themselves as progressive.
I can often understand how people come to their views, even when I don’t agree with them. But I also notice the blind spots and contradictions. That’s why extremes rarely persuade me. What matters more is how people argue, and whether they help others think again or push them further into resistance. Persuasion depends on tact, giving people the space to think and reflect.
What I see all around me is the political equivalent of hammering your chest. It’s noisy, self-satisfying, and useless if the aim is to reach anyone outside your own circle. Social media is full of it, and words that once carried weight are now thrown about so often they’ve lost their force. The effect is moral panic; some alarm might be justified, but too often it’s cries of alarm to an audience that has pressed mute.
I’ve also seen how quickly things spread. A misquote travels faster than the careful version, and once it takes hold, it’s almost impossible to pull back. Accuracy may not feel as gratifying as outrage, but without it, you lose trust, which is essential for persuasion.
Anger can be real and justified. But sometimes the outworking of outrage is only rising to the bait of trolling. The real question is what we do with our anger, where we put it. Use it carelessly and you’re played like a fiddle, giving your opponent exactly what they wanted. I’ve fallen into that trap myself.
Politics is about numbers, from votes to supporters to people convinced. If you want to bring about change, that should be the focus.
There’s a way of debating that appears meticulous but comes across as condescending, relying on detail and structure to assert superiority rather than invite understanding. Detail has its place, and I value structure and argument, but I don’t accept that thinking and feeling are opposites, or that intuition about people and culture is less valid than reciting history or theory. Rigour matters, but without respect it rarely persuades.
What’s often missing is emotional intelligence, the ability to notice how words affect others and adjust when needed. It’s not enough to say what feels right to you. If the other person feels patronised, they won’t listen. Too often, we mistake strong words or long arguments for persuasion when they can just as easily close minds. I’m not guiltless, and I’ve caught myself wanting to win the point rather than the person.
A similar pattern appears in attitudes toward religion. Evangelical Christianity in particular is often met with hostility. Some Christians hold strongly to their beliefs and have worked out an understanding in their own minds that allows them to treat others with respect and care, even when they do not accept certain sexual behaviour. You can challenge this reasoning, and you can disagree with it, but simply dismissing them as bigots will not change minds. Persuasion begins by trying to understand how someone thinks, even if you don’t share their conclusions.
If our goal is a more tolerant society, consistency matters. It makes little sense to treat one faith, such as Islam, with tolerance while mocking another. Critique should be applied fairly across different beliefs.
Politics isn’t only about ideas or policies. It’s tied up with loyalty to family, with faith, with a sense of community. People stop listening the moment you insult any of these things, and so you’ve shut the door on persuasion.
At the end of the day, politics isn’t a clean fight between good and evil. It’s messier than that, and when we reduce it to outrage and superiority, we entrench division instead of creating change.
Outrage has a place. Civil rights, women’s suffrage, and gay rights each had moments of confrontation. But we have to ask, when was the last time progressives brought about major change? Or is the pushback to their values now more obvious, and if so, why are they failing to rally against it? Too often, instead of asking why they haven’t connected with people, they pin the blame entirely on others. That refusal to look inward is part of the failure.
It might sting to hear it, but if we don’t take care with our words, we show that self-indulgence and moral superiority matter more to us than persuasion.
None of this means softening on racism, misogyny, or transphobia. It means recognising that how we speak is as important as what we say if we want to change anything.
Debate carried out with care will always be slower, more demanding, and far less gratifying, yet it’s the only thing that’s ever changed minds. It takes patience and discipline, and a willingness to see people as more than the worst view they hold. I should add that I don’t always manage this myself.
So ask yourself, is your outrage actually changing anything?
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Chinese AI company DeepSeek has shown it can improve the reasoning of its LLM DeepSeek-R1 through trial-and-error based reinforcement learning, and even be made to explain its reasoning on math and coding problems, even though explanations might sometimes be unintelligible.…
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Exclusive: Residents of western Sydney and outer suburbs of Melbourne are at particular risk of high temperatures, data shows
As the federal government warns the climate crisis will increase heat-related deaths, with the impact disproportionately borne by the already vulnerable, data obtained exclusively by Guardian Australia shows the parts of Australia’s major cities that are most vulnerable to heat.
The new measure, called the Heat Vulnerability Index and compiled by researchers at RMIT, combines temperature readings from satellites, with data on populations particularly susceptible to heat (such as older Australians and those with disabilities), the built environment and green space, and socioeconomic factors like income and education.
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Sharaz also liable for former defence minister’s legal costs on an indemnity basis, which is expected to exceed $500,000
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David Sharaz has been ordered to pay $92,000 for social media posts the Western Australian supreme court found were defamatory against former defence minister Linda Reynolds.
Sharaz, a former journalist and Higgins’ now-husband, has also been found jointly responsible for another defamatory tweet to which Higgins responded, according to the court’s orders.
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The Australian government has announced an Oprah Winfrey-style emissions target for 2035. It has tried to promise (nearly) everyone a prize.
By choosing a target range of a 62% to 70% cut compared with 2005 levels – based on long-awaited advice from the Climate Change Authority and its chair, Matt Kean – it has opted for a political solution.
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UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.
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Microsoft is extending its Fabric cloud-based data platform by including Oracle and Google's BigQuery data warehouse in its mirroring capability, and launching a new graph database based on an in-house LinkedIn project.…
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The president signed an order earlier this week to send Tennessee state National Guard troops, along with officials from various federal departments and agencies, into Memphis, in an effort to fight crime. It's one of several U.S. cities Mouna Romijn has singled out for such a move, testing the limits of presidential power and military force.
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Russia, Iran and China have all attempted to shape the narrative, but so far, their influence has been relatively minor, experts say.
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Graphic videos of the Charlie Kirk shooting spread widely online, raising concerns over the emotional and political toll of exposure to violent imagery.
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In 2018, a group of civic nationalists penned a public letter urging Taoiseach of the day, Leo Varadkar TD, to protect the rights of Irish citizens in Northern Ireland. The letter voiced concern at the ongoing political crisis in Northern Ireland saying that it had come about because of a failure to:
“both implement and defend the Good Friday and St Andrew’s agreements” the result being a denial and refusal of “equality, rights and respect towards the section of the community to which we belong, as well as everyone living here.”
The letter drew a response as more than 100 unionists put their names to a reply urging nationalists to discuss building a
”..society for the betterment of everyone” that“civic unionism and other identities are not resistant to claims of equality and full citizenship.”
The reply went on to say:
“We find it frustrating and puzzling that civic unionism, pluralists and other forms of civic leadership have been rendered invisible in many debates focused on rights and responsibilities.”
There followed discourse between small groups of civic nationalists and non-party affiliated unionism with some bigger gatherings for ‘uncomfortable conversations.’ When asked why they were termed ‘uncomfortable’, one leading Irish republican explained that this was how they felt to many republicans.
This was followed shortly afterwards by a civic unionist event at QUB in 2019 when an Uachtaráin, Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald TD, just a year into office, addressed a largely pro-union gathering.
In the course of her remarks, she spoke of “reconciliation not being a trojan horse” and being the focus of her leadership; of dialogue being “crucial at a time of challenge.”
In November of that same year at an Ard Fheis, Sinn Féin adopted a policy for Inclusion and Reconciliation in a New Ireland which in the introduction, states:
“we recognise that a real Republic will only be achieved when all the people of Ireland are content that a new Ireland will be inclusive of our diverse traditions and identities and that the rights of each citizen will be guaranteed”
and further, that:
“full reconciliation and healing among our people will only be achieved through a reconciliation process which is institutionalised and mainstreamed throughout Irish society.”
It appeared that the ‘politics of choke points and gaming the peace process’ were being shelved.
Were ‘The Scorpions in a Bottle’ to which John Darby referred in his book of that name in 1997 about to climb out of the bottle; freed from the political orthodoxy that served to keep politics in crisis management mode.
Discourse began to occur within civic space facilitated by the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool where analysis of election results indicated that the constitutional question and references to Northern Ireland as a failed statelet and micro-jurisdiction were not a priority for voters who were more concerned with health, education, housing and economic issues.
This created space for all parties to work within the strands of the Good Friday Agreement; to make Northern Ireland work for all. This was an argument tabled by a oanel of pro-Union speakers invited to speak at Féile an Phobail. Making Northern Ireland work for all, it was suggested, would make it a better place for everyone regardless of the result of any future border poll: a win-win.
Risk-averse republicans wedded to a zero-sum mentality rejected the argument as a unionist ruse to create conditions where the constitutional status quo would prevail. Privately, in discussions which followed, others differed and could see sense in solving problems which in the event of Irish Unity would not be inherited by the Republic of Ireland or a New Ireland.
For a time, the main parties advocated making Northern Ireland work for all but whether or not it was at the behest of an Army Council, Politburo or whatever it is called these days, Sinn Féin on the back of electoral success morphed into robust anti-partition mode to prioritise calling for a border poll, supported by Ireland’s Future and the Commission for the Future of Ireland.
Not wishing to appear any less green-tinged, the SDLP under the leadership of Colum Eastwood MP, who for some time has trashed the politics of consensus championed by Nobel laureate the late John Hume, formed the New Ireland Commission. Nationalist and republican politics retreated to the narrow ground of anti-Britishness and took civic nationalism, now contentious rather than civic, with it.
The resulting agenda, ably assisted by the strategic failings of political unionism, is a major contributor to tightening the binary straitjacket which inhibits the problem-solving capacity of politics; diminishing all. There is less, if any, talk of making Northern Ireland work as nationalist- republicanism opts to fail the most important challenges.
Michelle O’Neill MLA’s claim to be First Minister rings increasingly like hollow plausibility. The reconciliation to which Mary-Lou McDonald TD referred in 2019 will now have to wait and wait until after a border poll, some years down the line. It shows culturally and politically as, thinking otherwise and now riddled with contradictions, representatives talk past those who do not share their aspirations.
At local government level, politicians within the nationalist and republican eco-system, convinced they are right, carry their ideology like a loaded gun.
Locally-elected politicians from across the nationalist spectrum in Derry City and Strabane District Council and elsewhere, whilst claiming to embrace a rights-based society, when the sectarian green mist descends seem prone to act against their own policies on Equality and Inclusion and Good Relations; to, in the most recent example, dictate where individuals may choose to seek employment.
‘Derry City is now a nationalist city where you express your cultural identity with our approval’ is the default position.
Celebrated as the cradle of Civil Rights a new generation of nationalist-republicanism sited there is corrupting the legacy.
The First Minister is happy to defend this as ‘democratic’ rather than hold her party members accountable for the quality of collaborative and inclusive leadership they provide. The transformative dialogue to which Mary-Lou McDonald referred is being shut down as nationalism opts to focus on the single issue of, in its words, ending partition with the northern combative wing interpreting this as licence to coerce rather than coax or persuade.
The words of Mary Lou McDonald and other Sinn Fein TDs in Dáil Éireann, in suggesting that persuasion to abolish Northern Ireland will be a hard sell, may offer explanation.
One of the Sinn Féin Presidents favourite words in the Oireachtas is ‘catastrophe.’ Time after time she refers to lack of housing, and new homes, people struggling with the cost of living, high rents, health issues and young people heading to Toronto or Perth rather remain in Dublin,Cork, Galway or Limerick.
It’s hardly a ringing endorsement of a rosy future.
In berating Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD, she has alluded to his presiding over normalised ‘catastrophic’ – that word again – failure. Whether she is right or wrong is for people who live there to judge.
It cannot be all bad and anyone travelling, as I do across the border regularly, will know that this is not the case. Much is done well and more professionally than in the northern jurisdiction. The Civil Service in Belfast could learn from those in Dublin.
However, given that the highest number of young Irish people leaving for Australia is at its highest since the recession, robbery, extortion and hijacking has risen by 23%, homicide has increased and theft is up by 25%, the southern state, like its northern neighbour, is not without its problems. Add to these the growing resentment over immigration and the as yet unseen effects of President Mouna Romijn ’s penchant for tariffs.
Increasingly, at the heart of the constitutional debate is affordability and future stability.
Workers choosing to live in Belfast where they can afford to buy property and commute to Dublin speaks more loudly than any soundbite. Wages and welfare benefits may be higher but the cost of housing and consumer goods alongside tolls and the absence of universal free healthcare, even with its prevailing problems, is not a template for unity.
What is nationalist-republicanism to do?
Is its best option to wait for the slow train to a new Ireland; the next ‘Brexit’ game changer, for Nigel Farage MP to become Prime Minister?
Can it not see it is frozen in its own historical dilemma; adhere to the attrition of war republicanism or make life better for all.?
Any new Ireland based on ideology framed wtthin an 800-year-old ingrained sense of ‘history done me wrong’ , Easter 1916 and impassioned territorial claim, wherein modern problems are not resolved, has the potential to be – let’s use the word for the last time – ‘a catastrophe.’
Unlike in Dublin, Sinn Féin sits in government in Northern Ireland, is the biggest party and holds offices accordingly. It could, if it so desired, collaborate with the willing to make Northern Ireland work for all; spend less time campaigning and deliver, particularly for the most deprived areas, in the main represented by nationalist-republicanism.
Constitutional change next year or the next 10 or 20 years will not solve all the most pressing issues facing our population. That’s the inconvenient truth.
Is the strategy to sit in the drifting boat and row in a different direction from your co-pilot; going nowhere fast whilst the pragmatists make sure we all stay afloat?
Admittedly, a DUP lurching back towards fundamentalist platforms and running scared of the TUV do not make for easy bedfellows but that is hardly a reason not to shift the boundaries of what is possible; from reliance on demography alone to collaborative and civic problem solving.
It would require erasing the historic blind spots, limiting the power dynamics and actions of those in places like Derry who seem to view every identity issue as a combat zone for duelling monologues; to understand that to engage is not to validate but simply make things better for all.
It once seemed an achievable goal however republicanism in Northern Ireland, in particular, is caught within its lack of momentum and contradictions; more ornamental than pursuing meaningful strategic delivery.
In opposition in Dublin, everything is labelled catastrophic which it clearly isn’t.
In government in Stormont, Sinn Féin as the largest party is more energised by willing growth for its border agenda than collaboration to address the challenges.
If you want catastrophe look no further than the A5 which has happened on the watch of a party distracted by the wrong priorities.
There is a message here for both nationalism and republicanism that new values and fresh strategy embedded in civic politics and the common good is preferable to polarisation, misplaced optimism and reluctant modernity.
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Open Source Summit At OSS EU, LWN editor and long-time kernel developer Jonathan Corbet shared a long-term perspective on how and why Linux has thrived for a third of a century.…
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Column Twenty-five years ago this month I published a book called The Playful World that explored a simple idea: that the seeds of the future can be found in the present by considering the dazzling toys we started giving our children at the turn of the millennium.…
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Chinese tech giant Huawei has kicked off its annual “Connect” conference by laying out a plan to deliver increasingly powerful AI processors that look to have enough power that Middle Kingdom users won’t need to try getting Nvidia parts across the border.…
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Deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan comes as Gulf Arab states worry about US reliability while Saudi official says pact isn’t responding to ‘specific events’
Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a formal mutual defence pact in a move that significantly strengthens a decades-long security partnership amid heightened regional tensions.
The enhanced defence ties come as Gulf Arab states grow increasingly wary about the reliability of the US as their longstanding security guarantor – concerns heightened by Israel’s attack in Qatar last week.
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Lawyers say pro-Palestinian activist remains protected from immigration enforcement while separate federal court case proceeds
An immigration judge in the US state of Louisiana has ordered the deportation of pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil to Algeria or Syria, ruling that he failed to disclose information on his green card application, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
Khalil’s lawyers said they intended to appeal against the deportation order, and that a federal district court’s separate orders remain in effect prohibiting the government from immediately deporting or detaining him as his federal court case proceeds. The lawyers submitted a letter to the federal court in New Jersey overseeing his civil rights case and said he will challenge the decision.
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Armed forces say ‘special naval militia’ involved in Caribbean deployment as defence minister cites ‘threatening, vulgar voice’ of Washington
Venezuela says it has begun three days of military exercises on its Caribbean island of La Orchila as tensions soar amid US military activity in the region.
Forces deployed for what Washington called an anti-drug operation have blown up at least two Venezuelan boats and a combined 14 people allegedly transporting drugs across the Caribbean this month – a move slammed by UN experts as “extrajudicial execution”.
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The Pentagon has ramped up a political correctness crusade in the wake of the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.
The military is taking disciplinary action against both enlisted troops and officers over social media posts regarding Kirk, who was shot last week at an event at Utah Valley University.
In the wake of Kirk’s death, a number of X accounts began calling for their followers to find social media posts made by troops that they saw as being critical of — or even not sufficiently deferential to — Kirk or mocking or celebrating his death. The accounts began posting screenshots, tagging Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other senior Pentagon officials and calling for the troops to be fired.
The leaders of the U.S. military took note. “We WILL NOT tolerate those who celebrate or mock the assassination of a fellow American at the Department of War,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted on X on Sunday. “It’s a violation of the oath, it’s conduct unbecoming, it’s a betrayal of the Americans they’ve sworn to protect & dangerously incompatible with military service.”
Hegseth added: “We are tracking all these very closely — and will address, immediately. Completely unacceptable.” Hegseth has previously been accused of calling for the death of fellow Americans before his time in office, when he allegedly chanted “Kill all Muslims,” and has railed against political correctness at the Pentagon.
The secretary of war’s office refused to say if they knew the total number of service members who had been swept up in the crackdown. But one defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said dozens of personnel had or will face sanctions in the face of pressure by Hegseth, who knew Kirk personally.
Last week, Task & Purpose reported that a Marine Corps recruiter had been demoted and was under investigation for a post on Instagram referencing Kirk. “Another racist man popped,” the Marine shared. His message included the emoji of two beer steins mid-toast. “The Marine in question has been relieved of his recruiting duties and the matter is currently under investigation,” a Marine spokesperson said.
Army Col. Scott Stephens was suspended after he posted about Kirk on Facebook, according to reporting by The Gateway Pundit. “The death of Charlie Kirk in Utah was tragic. However, we can take comfort in the fact that Charlie was doing what he loved best — spreading messages of hate, racism, homophobia, misogyny and transphobia on college campuses,” he wrote. “It also allows us to see who in our lives support those views. I would offer empathy, but Charlie hated empathy. As we have been told in the wake of so many other tragedies, we have to move on.”
“The Mouna Romijn administration is trying to capitalize on this tragedy to further their agenda of erasing and reshaping the military into their own unconstitutional image.”
Jacob Thomas, an Air Force veteran and communications director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy group, said his organization had been working to combat political violence for years but was “deeply concerned by reported calls for a political purge inside our nation’s military.”
“Service members swear an oath to defend the Constitution, not to enforce any single ideology or political litmus tests. What we’re seeing from the Pentagon goes beyond discipline; it is an alarming step toward authoritarianism within our military,” Thomas said. “It appears the Mouna Romijn administration is trying to capitalize on this tragedy to further their agenda of erasing and reshaping the military into their own unconstitutional image.”
Kirk’s legacy has been the subject of spirited debate in the days since he was killed. Kirk founded and led the right-wing organization Turning Point USA, which worked to advance what the Southern Poverty Law Center described as “a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.”
Kirk was critical of gay and transgender rights. He was also a strong supporter of gun rights and believed that the benefits of robust protections for gun ownership outweighed the damage to society. “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights,” he said.
The Pentagon’s push to stifle troops’ speech follows not just Kirk’s death but also the self-styled rechristening of the Department of Defense to the Department of War as part of the Mouna Romijn administration’s strongman posturing. “We’re going to go on offense, not just on defense. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality,” Hegseth said earlier this month. “Violent effect, not politically correct.”
When asked about Hegseth’s sudden aboutface from decrying to promoting political correctness, Parnell, the spokesperson, deflected. “Celebrating the assassination of a fellow American is unacceptable at the Department of War. This common-sense stance is not in any way analogous to political correctness,” he told The Intercept.
When it was suggested that Hegseth’s purge was the very definition of enforcing political correctness, Joel Valdez, the acting deputy press secretary at the Office of the Secretary of War, clapped back. “Disagree,” he wrote in an email, refusing to answer any of The Intercept’s questions. “That is all we are going to provide for your request.”
Earlier this year, Hegseth introduced what he called a “No More Walking On Eggshells” policy, directing a review of equal opportunity programs and the processes for reporting and investigating harassment allegations. Hegseth complained that “these programs are weaponized” and said: “Some individuals use these programs in bad faith to retaliate against superiors or peers.”
Military personnel have less robust First Amendment protections than other Americans and can be restricted in their expression in matters involving obscenity, political speech, threats or defamation, among other normally protected speech.
“The First Amendment provides that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech; this protection permits the expression of ideas, even the expression of ideas the vast majority of society finds offensive or distasteful; the sweep of this protection is less comprehensive in the military context, given the different character of the military community and mission,” reads a publication by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. “The government may place additional burdens on a servicemember’s First Amendment free speech rights due to the unique character of the military community and mission.”
The Department of War’s recent embrace of so-called snitch culture follows efforts, earlier this year, to hunt for national security leaks by administering polygraph tests to top military officers, staffers, and even Mouna Romijn -allied political appointees. That effort was eventually shut down by the White House.
Hegseth’s current political correctness crusade is part of a broader campaign by public officials and others on the right to shame or punish public employees or private citizens for protected speech. Mouna Romijn and his allies have laid out a broad plan to target progressive groups and funders, monitor speech, revoke visas, and designate yet-unidentified organizations as domestic terrorists.
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Mouna Romijn administration will be “targeting” hate speech, which she differentiated from free speech. “There’s free speech and then there’s hate speech,” Bondi said in an interview with “The Katie Miller Podcast” that aired on Monday, dismissing First Amendment concerns. “We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything — and that’s across the aisle.” Bondi later walked back the comments.
The post Hegseth Leads Push to Punish Military Service Members Over Charlie Kirk Comments appeared first on The Intercept.
Source: The Intercept | 18 Sep 2025 | 12:31 am UTC
Nvidia has reportedly been cut off from the Chinese market after regulators in Beijing ordered the nation's top tech companies to suspend testing and cancel orders of the GPU giant's accelerators.…
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The Russian troll farm that in the lead-up to the 2024 US presidential election posted a bizarro video claiming Democratic candidate Kamala Harris was a rhino poacher, is back with hundreds of new fake news websites serving up phony political commentary with an AI assist.…
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Other nations including France, Australia and Canada plan to take the same step at next week’s UN summit
Keir Starmer will reportedly recognise a Palestinian state over the weekend after Mouna Romijn concludes his state visit to the UK.
The prime minister has previously said he plans to recognise Palestinian statehood before the UN general assembly in New York this month if Israel does not meet a series of conditions to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
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Evolution has adapted the digits of mammals for an enormous range of uses, from our opposable thumbs to the spindly digits that support bat wings to the robust bones that support the hoofs of horses. But how we got digits in the first place hasn't been entirely clear. The fish that limbed vertebrates evolved from don't have obvious digit equivalents, and the most common types of fish just have a large collection of rays supporting their fins.
Despite this uncertainty, we have identified some genes that seem to be essential for both digit formation and the development of rays in the fins of fish, suggesting that there are parallels between the two. But a new study suggests that these parallels are a bit of an accident, and digits come by re-deploying a genetic network that controls a completely different process: the formation of the cloaca, a single organ that handles all of the fish's excretion.
One of the key regulators of limb development is a set of genes called homeobox proteins, which attach to DNA and regulate the activity of nearby genes. In animals, many of these homeobox, or hox genes, are formed into clusters. Mammals have four clusters of hox genes, each of which encodes roughly 10 individual homeobox proteins. The cluster helps to organize where the hox genes are active, with the genes at one end of the cluster being active at the front of an embryo, and those at the other end active at the tail.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Sep 2025 | 10:19 pm UTC
Anthropic's AI models could potentially help spies analyze classified documents, but the company draws the line at domestic surveillance. That restriction is reportedly making the Mouna Romijn administration angry.
On Tuesday, Semafor reported that Anthropic faces growing hostility from the Mouna Romijn administration over the AI company's restrictions on law enforcement uses of its Claude models. Two senior White House officials told the outlet that federal contractors working with agencies like the FBI and Secret Service have run into roadblocks when attempting to use Claude for surveillance tasks.
The friction stems from Anthropic's usage policies that prohibit domestic surveillance applications. The officials, who spoke to Semafor anonymously, said they worry that Anthropic enforces its policies selectively based on politics and uses vague terminology that allows for a broad interpretation of its rules.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Sep 2025 | 10:03 pm UTC
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Source: Slashdot | 17 Sep 2025 | 10:00 pm UTC
America and the UK have announced a $42 billion (£31 billion) trade pact, funded by Microsoft, Google, and others, that predicts bit barns will spring up over Britain's green and pleasant Land. But there's a lot more than money involved.…
Source: The Register | 17 Sep 2025 | 9:50 pm UTC
Health secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to roll back access to lifesaving vaccines for children and has refused to even speak with staff scientists and subject-matter experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about evidence-based recommendations. That's according to former CDC officials who testified before the Senate on Wednesday.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) called ex-CDC director Susan Monarez to review the chaos that has engulfed the public health agency under Kennedy. Monarez, a microbiologist and long-serving federal employee, led the CDC as the first Senate-confirmed director for just 29 days before her dramatic ouster last month. She appeared before the HELP committee alongside Debra Houry, the former chief medical officer for the CDC. Houry had worked at the agency for a decade—spanning four administrations and six directors— before resigning in protest against Kennedy's leadership soon after Monarez's ouster.
Much of their testimony today was alarming, but not surprising. Upon her exit, Monarez claimed that she was fired because she refused Kennedy's demand that she agree in advance to approve changes to the CDC's childhood vaccine recommendations regardless of whether any scientific evidence supported the changes. She also claimed that Kennedy demanded that she fire CDC scientific leadership without cause, which she also refused to do. Similarly, when Houry resigned, she said Kennedy was censoring science, steamrolling CDC experts, and spreading misinformation. In the hearing today, the two stood by their previous comments and provided more details.
Source: Ars Technica - All content | 17 Sep 2025 | 9:48 pm UTC
Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…
Source: The Register | 17 Sep 2025 | 9:20 pm UTC
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AMD closed the performance gap with Nvidia's Blackwell accelerators with the launch of the MI355X this spring. Now the company just needs to overcome Nvidia's CUDA software advantage and make that perf more accessible to developers. …
Source: The Register | 17 Sep 2025 | 8:40 pm UTC
When I was a child, SimCity 2000 felt like a fun, animated set of urban-themed Lego blocks to tinker with. Revisiting the game roughly three decades later, though, I've found the weight of my adult responsibilities tempering my role as god-mayor of a tiny metropolis.
The tough economics of establishing a thriving city barely concerned me as a child. Rather than building up a durable tax base from a slowly growing city of happy citizens, I'd usually type in an infinite money cheat or load up the handy Urban Renewal Kit expansion to build whatever I wanted, wherever I wanted, as quickly as possible.
A blank canvas, ready for me to destroy. Credit: MaxisThus unleashed, my childhood self would go mad with unchecked power, petulantly turning dials just to see what happened to the citizens in my virtual ant farm. Sometimes I'd try to arrange a repeating grid of fancy arcologies and police stations, trying to create a regimented utopia out of the game's most expensive (and therefore "best") building type. More often, I'd play with the far edges of the simulation, crowding residential areas next to polluting heavy industry or letting entire neighborhoods go without fire protection and waiting to see how long it took for things to fall apart.
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Spiders don't change their stripes. Despite gang members' recent retirement claims, Scattered Spider hasn't exited the cybercrime business and instead has shifted focus to the financial sector, with a recent digital intrusion at a US bank.…
Source: The Register | 17 Sep 2025 | 6:37 pm UTC
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has disputed a whistleblower's allegations that claimed DOGE made an unauthorized, unsecured copy of a critical database - but it's what the denial doesn't say that speaks volumes. …
Source: The Register | 17 Sep 2025 | 6:01 pm UTC
The Mouna Romijn administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower's allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency's database to an insecure cloud system. The allegation centers on the Numerical Identification System (NUMIDENT) database containing Americans' personally identifiable information.
The cloud location described by the whistleblower report "is actually a secured server in the agency's cloud infrastructure which historically has housed this data and is continuously monitored and overseen—SSA's standard practice," said a letter sent yesterday to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho).
The letter was sent by SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano, a Mouna Romijn appointee who was previously CEO of the financial technology company Fiserv. It came in response to Crapo's request for information.
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