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Police to be given new powers to randomly scan people for knives under NSW government proposal
Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:41 GMT
Legislation to be based on Queensland law introduced last year in response to stabbing of teenager in 2019
Police will be able to scan people for knives without a warrant in crowded places including shopping centres under new laws being developed by the New South Wales government after stabbings at Bondi Junction, Wakeley and Coffs Harbour.
The legislation will be based on Queensland’s Jack’s Law, which was introduced last year following a 24-month trial of the powers on the Gold Coast, sparked by the death of 17-year-old Jack Beasley in 2019.
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New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal
2024-05-06T11:03:08Z
Lots of complicated details here: too many for me to summarize well. It involves an obscure Section 230 provision—and an even more obscure typo. Read this.
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Trump lawyer attempts to distance ex-president from any falsification of business records with cross-examination – live
Mon, 06 May 2024 17:54:03 GMT
Emil Bove questions retired former Trump Organization senior vice-president and controller Jeffrey McConney on ‘legal expense’ payments
Here’s a look at Juan Merchan’s latest criminal contempt order against Donald Trump, published just now. It cites the former president’s social media attacks on the jury, and those he made in TV interviews:
This court finds that the People have established the elements of criminal contempt beyond a reasonable doubt. This court’s expanded order is lawful and unambiguous.
Defendant violated the order by making public statements about the jury and how it was selected. In doing so, defendant not only called into question the integrity, and therefore the legitimacy of these proceedings, but again raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones.
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What would life behind bars be like for Trump? A judge raises the possibility of jail time.
Mon, 06 May 2024 17:39:00 GMT
Experts say the judge still has options short of sending Trump to jail for contempt.
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Prosecutor aims to show Trump at center of personal and company finances as Trump Organization controller testifies – live
Mon, 06 May 2024 17:33:28 GMT
Retired former Trump Organization senior vice-president and controller Jeffrey McConney is testifying now
Here’s a look at Juan Merchan’s latest criminal contempt order against Donald Trump, published just now. It cites the former president’s social media attacks on the jury, and those he made in TV interviews:
This court finds that the People have established the elements of criminal contempt beyond a reasonable doubt. This court’s expanded order is lawful and unambiguous.
Defendant violated the order by making public statements about the jury and how it was selected. In doing so, defendant not only called into question the integrity, and therefore the legitimacy of these proceedings, but again raised the specter of fear for the safety of the jurors and of their loved ones.
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Jailing Trump is ‘last thing’ judge says he wants to do, as threat of incarceration looms
Mon, 06 May 2024 13:43:17 +0000
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Judge’s ruling is still pending on 4 more potential gag order violations
Mon, 06 May 2024 13:22:58 +0000
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Trump said a gag order bars him from testifying. The judge corrected him.
Mon, 06 May 2024 13:03:24 +0000
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Judge warns Trump he risks jail over gag order violations
Mon, 06 May 2024 12:29:37 GMT
The court is now hearing from its next witness in the trial - former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney
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Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats
Fri, 03 May 2024 23:17:57 +0000
Punishing Google for being the best would be “unprecedented,” lawyer argued.
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Would You Still Use Google if It Didn't Pay Apple $20 Billion to Get on Your iPhone?
Fri, 03 May 2024 01:23:46 +0000
A US judge who will decide Google’s fate in a historic antitrust trial suggested it was “odd” for the company to say it has the best search engine but also pay Apple billions to lock out rivals.
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Mike Johnson faces Republican-led ouster vote as Congress returns this week – live
Mon, 06 May 2024 17:50:09 GMT
Though Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort against the House speaker is likely to fail, she plans to use the vote to show that Mike Johnson relies on Democrats to keep his job
The Texas senator Ted Cruz is no stranger to scrutiny of his campaign finance affairs.
In 2022, for one rather famous example, the rightwing-dominated supreme court ruled in his favour in a case over whether candidates could fully recoup money loaned to their own campaigns.
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New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink
Mon, 06 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000
Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return. “People often ask about this, and simulating these difficult-to-imagine processes helps me connect the mathematics of relativity to […]
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Scaling back Labour’s workers’ rights plan would be disastrous, warns TUC president
Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:31 GMT
Reports say Sir Keir Starmer may risk union support and bow to pressure from business to amend new deal
Watering down Labour’s plan to strengthen workers’ rights would be disastrous for the party’s relations with the unions and could cost votes at the general election, the president of the Trades Union Congress has warned.
Amid reports that Sir Keir Starmer may bow to pressure from business and amend important parts of his “new deal for workers”, Matt Wrack said the Labour leader risked causing “significant anger” among union members.
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India opposition social media chief arrested over doctored video
Sat, 04 May 2024 08:30:41 GMT
Congress party’s Arun Reddy held over fake video of interior minister Amit Shah
Indian police have said they have arrested the social media chief of the country’s main opposition party over a doctored video widely shared during the ongoing national election.
Arun Reddy of the Congress party was detained late on Friday in connection with the edited footage, which falsely shows India’s powerful interior minister, Amit Shah, vowing in a campaign speech to end affirmative action policies for millions of poor and low-caste Indians.
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Automakers Want AM Radios Out of Cars. Congress Is About to Require Them
Fri, 03 May 2024 17:35:02 +0000
A popular bill will force car companies to put AM radios in vehicles at no extra charge, despite decreasing interest from drivers and potential electromagnetic interference.
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America!: A Chaos Demon from the Underworld Shares His Tips on Streamlining Congress
Thu, 02 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000
I’m truly inspired by the surreal dysfunction of your Congress—but isn’t it a little over the top?
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Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
Thu, 02 May 2024 01:00:00 +0000
Even her opponents within the Republican Party stand to profit from the Georgia congresswoman’s latest outburst.
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UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:19:56 GMT
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian slaughter in Gaza’
The UK has been accused by Amnesty International of “deliberately destabilising” human rights on the global stage for its own political ends.
In its annual global report, released today, the organisation said Britain was weakening human rights protections nationally and globally, amid a near-breakdown of international law.
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University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:12:46 +0000
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
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Evergrande’s liquidation is a new low in China’s property crisis
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:04:03 +0000
A judge in Hong Kong surprises the mainland
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The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:59:38 +0000
Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed legislation not only reauthorizing a major FISA spy program but expanding it in ways that could have major implications for privacy rights in the US.
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College commencement season in America disrupted as Columbia cancels main ceremony
Mon, 06 May 2024 16:13:00 GMT
Some colleges have canceled their school-wide ceremonies, while other schools are planning for disruption.
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Columbia University cancels commencement ceremony following student protests
Mon, 06 May 2024 15:11:48 GMT
School announced it will switch to smaller celebrations in its 19 colleges, almost three weeks after pro-Palestinian protests began
Columbia University has announced that it will be cancelling its university-wide commencement ceremony this month and switching to smaller celebrations in its 19 colleges, almost three weeks after pro-Palestinian protests erupted at the Ivy League institution.
A university official told the Guardian that the decision to scrap a large commencement ceremony was driven in part by security concerns. Most of the events will be shifted from the main lawn of the Morningside campus, which became the center of students protests calling for the university to divest from Israel, and moved to an athletics center further north in Manhattan.
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‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Mon, 06 May 2024 14:58:07 GMT
‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’
In 1997, my music supervisor Anton Monsted and I decided to make a charity album with remixes of songs from my films. I was working on a new version of Rozalla’s rave banger Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) that, for Romeo + Juliet, we had turned into an ecclesiastical song with vocals from Quindon Tarver and King’s College Choir.
Around this time, a graduation speech apparently by Kurt Vonnegut offering life advice was spreading on a new invention called the world wide web. It was what we would now call viral – but it was also a hoax. Some kid had taken a column by a smart, respected columnist called Mary Schmich, who wrote for the Chicago Tribune, and instead credited it to the Slaughterhouse-Five author.
We thought it would make a great spoken word song. We found a voiceover artist, Lee Perry, to impersonate an imagined Vonnegut and spent a great deal of time getting it right, so that it felt naturally spoken and rhythmic.
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NASA Invites Media to Attend Louisiana Space Day 2024
Mon, 06 May 2024 14:50:45 +0000
NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, several aerospace companies, and GNO Inc. will host Louisiana Space Day 2024 at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, May 8. Media are invited to attend and should contact Craig Betbeze at craig.c.betbeze@nasa.gov or 504-419-5333 by 2 p.m. […]
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Teens who discovered new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem uncover even more proofs
Mon, 06 May 2024 14:49:45 GMT
As high school students, Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson worked to find valid new proof for the 2,000-year-old theorem
Two college freshmen who, during their final year of high school, found a new way to prove Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry – which mathematicians for generations thought was impossible – have since uncovered multiple more such proofs, they revealed in a national interview on Sunday.
“We found five, and then we found a general format that could potentially produce at least five additional proofs,” Calcea Johnson said on CBS’s 60 Minutes, a little more than a year after she and Ne’Kiya Jackson collaborated on an accomplishment that earned them international recognition.
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Israel, Gaza, and the Turmoil at One American University
Fri, 03 May 2024 19:00:00 +0000
Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.
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Software Testing Day
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