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[ad_1] A 49-foot boat carrying 230 illegal immigrants shows Labour is still failing to protect our borders. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] First came the Flock cameras. Now, hundreds of local police departments have received government waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI, Mike Ludwig reports. A small drone flying over a city at dusk, 2017. (Unsplash/ CC0/Public Domain) By Mike LudwigTruthout Police in cities across the U.S. are rolling out a pro-drone PR blitz as hundreds of local police departments prepare to deploy autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones. The drones are capable of following a single vehicle across an entire city, capturing footage through apartment windows, and generally recording daily life from the sky without being noticed. As of…

[ad_1] The U.S. military fired on a Panama-flagged ship it claimed was trying to run the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported. Maritime security firm Vanguard identified the vessel as the Vela Nova and reported that it was hit by a missile fired from a U.S. helicopter while transiting off the coast of Oman. President Donald Trump on Monday posted on Truth Social a list of his demands to end the war, including compensation from Iran for the deaths of U.S. soldiers allegedly killed by the IRGC during the Iraq War. Trump…

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[ad_1] Amid Europe's Border Invasion, U.S. Can Ill Afford To Be Smug [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] For past Free Speech Unmuted episodes, see: Shrexting: Free Speech or Criminal Harassment? The First Amendment and Privacy Rights ‘Defamacast’ and More: How American Defamation Law Works Speech, Not “Conduct”: Supreme Court Rules on Conversion Talk Therapy Equal Time, Stephen Colbert, and the Future of Political Broadcasting Student Speech, Threats, and the First Amendment Can Journalists Be Charged for Involvement in Protests? The Don Lemon Dilemma 2025: The Year In Free Speech Does the First Amendment Protect Supposedly “Addictive” Algorithms? Defamation Law in the Age of AI with Lyrissa Lidsky Free Speech and the Future of Legal Education From Brandenburg to Britain: Rethinking Free Speech in the…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Loïc Le Meur – Flickr: Loïc Le Meur – CC BY 2.0 Welcome freshman! This is your introduction to art history class. Please unpack your Google glasses and charge them up. And check the plane tickets, which will take you to China, Egypt, Italy, and India, and also France, New York, and South America. To study art history, travel is necessary. (And fortunately ours is a very well-endowed university.) You will have an exciting semester! When you visit these great art historical sites, you will use your Google glasses to read the commentaries the faculty have assembled…

[ad_1] A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia Monday morning, killing at least 169 people and devastating the western portion of the country. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The quake struck at 7:34 a.m. and was centered in the Chocó province near the municipality of San José del Palmar, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It toppled multistory buildings, damaged hospitals and airports, and was felt in the capital Bogotá and neighboring Ecuador and Panama. Emergency crews, soldiers, police, and volunteers worked through the night, sometimes digging with their bare hands, to rescue victims trapped below…

[ad_1] Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance was one of the most talked about policy books of 2025. In broad strokes, the book makes the case for “a liberalism that builds” and thus becomes the basis for a more affordable and more sustainable–or, they would say, abundant–future. Much of the book provides a useful diagnosis of how existing policies and regulations amke it too difficult to build hosing, deploy clean energy, develop innovative technologies, and bring innovations to market. In this respect, it is a useful intervention in policy debates that challenges the contemporary approach to governance to which many of their…

[ad_1] Before the press was captured, vaccine injuries were openly covered on national TV. Now the dam of censorship is breaking, and we can finally confront the tragic history that keeps repeating. A key theme I’ve tried to highlight in this publication is that the same medical catastrophes keep repeating (because those responsible are never held accountable), so by understanding what happened in the past, you can see and understand what is happening now and what will likely happen in the future. For example, because vaccines are “risky but necessary,” the medical profession and government, again and again, concluded that…