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Security noticed that a sliding door at the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot had been forced open and a display case containing gold and silver coins had been broken into.
Police in Pakistan say that three police officers have been killed when a powerful roadside bomb struck a police vehicle in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s northwest. Authorities said that the blast killed a city...
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After the U.S. Supreme Court said it will hear a case focused on the same federal law, a judge put on hold a lawsuit about whether Florida medical-marijuana patients can be barred from having guns.
LONDON (Reuters) -A Sudanese national has been found guilty of murdering a 27-year-old woman working at a hotel housing asylum seekers in central...
LONDON (Reuters) -The ringleader of an arson attack on Ukraine-linked businesses in London last year was on Friday jailed for 17 years for what...
Vance and Rubio praise peace deal while meeting with Netanyahu; Reporter's Notebook: The forgotten daughter of a U.S. president finally comes home
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky heads to London Friday for a meeting of its key backers, where Britain’s prime minister has said he will call on Europe to deliver more long-range missiles. Kyiv’s Western allies have ratcheted up pressure on Moscow as the war enters its fourth winter, with the United States and European Union both [...]The post UK to press ‘coalition of willing’ for more long-range missiles for Ukraine appeared first on Digital Journal.
A man suspected of driving under the influence in a crash that killed a La Mesa police officer and another driver earlier this week was arrested, authorities said in a news release Thursday.
Troy Terry snapped a tie in the third period, and the Anaheim Ducks held off the Boston Bruins for a 7-5 victory. Mikael Granlund had two goals and three assists for Anaheim in its second straight win. Terry and Jacob...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican authorities on Thursday deported Chinese national Zhi Dong to the United States to faced alleged drug trafficking...
President Donald Trump approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe late Wednesday, while denying requests from Vermont, Illinois and Maryland and leaving other states still waiting for answers.The decisions fell mostly along party lines, with Trump touting on social media Wednesday that he had “won BIG” in Alaska in the last three presidential elections, that he won “THREE times” in the “beautiful State of North Dakota,” and that it was his “honor” to deliver for the “incredible Patriots” of Missouri, a state he also won three times. Additionally he said Nebraska “is a special place.”The disaster declarations authorize the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support recipients with federal financial assistance to repair public infrastructure damaged by disasters and, in some cases, provide survivors money for repairs and temporary housing.While Trump has approved more disaster declarations than he’s denied this year, he has also repeatedly floated the idea of “phasing out” FEMA, saying he wants states to take more responsibility for disaster response and recovery. States already take the lead in disasters, but depend on federal assistance when the needs exceed what they can manage alone.Trump has also taken longer to approve disaster declaration requests than in any previous administration, including his first, according to an Associated Press analysis.Approvals fell mostly along party linesThe states approved for disaster declarations include Alaska, which filed an expedited request after experiencing back-to-back storms this month that wrecked coastal villages, displaced 2,000 residents and killed at least one person. Trump approved a 100% cost share of disaster-related expenses for 90 days.North Dakota and Nebraska will also receive public assistance for August severe weather, and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota was approved for both public and individual assistance for a June storm that felled thousands of trees across its tribal lands.Trump denied four requests, including Maryland’s appeal for reconsideration after the state was denied a disaster declaration for May flooding that severely impacted the state’s two westernmost counties.Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat, denounced the decision in a statement Thursday, calling the final denial “deeply frustrating.”“President Trump and his Administration have politicized disaster relief, and our communities are the ones who will pay the price,” said Moore. The state has been supporting impacted individuals itself, deploying over $450,000 for the first time from its State Disaster Recovery Fund.Maryland met the conditions necessary to qualify for public assistance, according to a preliminary damage assessment, but Trump, who has the final decision on the declarations, denied the state’s July request. Maryland appealed in August with further data showing the counties experienced $33.7 million in damage, according to the state, more than three times its threshold for federal assistance.Trump also denied Vermont a major disaster declaration for July 10 floods after the state waited over nine weeks for a decision. The damages far exceed what some of the small towns impacted can afford on their own, said Eric Forand, Vermont’s emergency management director.“It’s well over the annual budget or two years’ budget (of some towns), to fix those roads,” Forand said.The other denials included an application from Illinois for individual assistance for three counties impacted in July by severe storms and flooding, and one from Alaska to rebuild a public safety building that burned in a July electrical fire.Asked why the states were denied, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, “President Trump provides a more thorough review of disaster declaration requests than any Administration has before him.” She said Trump was “ensuring American tax dollars are used appropriately and efficiently by the states to supplement — not substitute, their obligation to respond to and recover from disasters.”Assistance granted after weekslong waitSeveral states and one tribe still await decisions on their requests.Not knowing whether public assistance is coming can delay crucial projects, especially for small jurisdictions with tight budgets, and sometimes leaves survivors without any help to secure temporary housing or repair homes now too dangerous to live in.Before its approval Wednesday, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe was straining to cover the costs of clearing thousands of trees felled across its reservation by a June thunderstorm. As a tribe, it is entitled to apply for assistance independently of the state where it is located.The tribe had spent about $1.5 million of its own funds so far, said Duane Oothoudt, emergency operations manager for the Leech Lake Police Department.The tribe was “doing a lot of juggling, using reserve funding to operate and continue paying our contractors,” Oothoudt said just hours before being notified of the disaster declaration, nine weeks after submitting the request.With federal funding approved for both public and individual assistance, Oothoudt said Thursday his one-man emergency management department would focus on helping survivors first.“There’s a lot of work to do,” he said. “People were hurt by the storm.”Associated Press writer Brian Witte in Annapolis, Maryland, contributed.
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Candidates in Ivory Coast's presidential election have held their last campaign rallies before Saturday's election
What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself. One Afghan family’s story of separation across the world shows the human consequences.
Linus Ullmark made 22 saves after allowing a goal on Philadelphia’s first shot and the Ottawa Senators rallied to beat the Flyers 2-1 on Thursday night. Tyson Foerster beat Ullmark 29 seconds for Philadelphia only goal. Late in the game,...
Sidney Crosby scores two goals and adds an assist as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Florida Panthers 5-3. Crosby now has five goals in his last four games, marking his longest scoring streak since the 2021-22 season. Erik Karlsson contributes...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The last time U.S. President Donald Trump visited South Korea in 2019, he made a surprise trip to the border with North Korea for an impromptu meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The last time U.S. President Donald Trump visited South Korea in 2019, he made a surprise trip to the border with North Korea for an impromptu meeting with North Korean leade...
'The bullet that took Kirk’s life is the physical embodiment of the coercive spirit that animates the Canadian political class,' Liana Graham wrote
The Bangladesh spinners were responsible for all 10 wickets as their team thrashed West Indies by 179 runs in the third and final ODI to take the series 2-1. The dominant victory was its second largest overall and biggest ever...
Any settlement between President Donald Trump and the Department of Justice would reportedly serve as compensation for past inquiries into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and a raid on his Mar-a-Lago residence searching for classified documents taken after he departed the White House following his first term.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among 34 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday. FBI Director Kash...
The U.S. military on Wednesday launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, expanding the Trump administration’s campaign against drug trafficking in South America. It followed another strike Tuesday night, also in the eastern Pacific, that killed two people, Hegseth posted [...]
(Reuters) -The World Health Organization said on Thursday the aid to Gaza is increasing, but is still only a "fraction of what's needed" as the...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Police in Ghana rescued 57 Nigerians trafficked to the West African country and arrested five people suspected of operating a cybercrime and human trafficking ring, authorities said on Thursday. Police raided a building in the suburb of the capital Accra on Wednesday, where the victims, between the ages of 18 and [...]
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Police in Ghana rescued 57 Nigerians trafficked to the West African country and arrested five people suspected of operating a cybercrime and human trafficking ring, authorities said Thursday.
Vietnamese teenager Khanh Hung Le is among three players who share the lead after one round of the Asia-Pacific Amateur. Le shot a 66 and is tied with Billy...
A senior Canadian government official told reporters Thursday that it's hoped Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a summit in South Korea next week.
Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier have been arrested in connection with a federal investigation into illegal sports betting.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Republican leaders in Congress warned Thursday that flight disruptions may...
Standing in the middle of a parking lot in suburban Washington, surrounded by hundreds of federal employees waiting for food handouts amid the US government shutdown, Diane Miller summed it up simply. “How am I gonna eat?” the 74-year-old public servant asked bitterly. When her turn came, she showed her government employee card and received [...]The post Frustrated federal employees line up for food as US shutdown wears on appeared first on Digital Journal.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 37 points and 14 rebounds, and the Milwaukee Bucks never trailed in a 133-120, season-opening victory over the Washington Wizards.
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US President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies on Wednesday, complaining that his talks with Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war "don't go anywhere."
BMW delivers the first of 50 Skytop models at BMW Welt. The €500,000 targa heads to Italy’s 777 Collection under Andrea Levy.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar late Wednesday as the country's new grand mufti, the kingdom's top religious scholar.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia appointed a prominent ultraconservative scholar late Wednesday as the country’s new grand mufti, the kingdom’s top religious scholar. Sheikh Saleh bin Fawzan al-Fawzan, 90, took over the position, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported. The decision came from King Salman, based on the recommendation of his son, [...]
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The Space Force is seeking feedback on a draft request for proposals for the next generation of “neighborhood watch” satellites for on-orbit space domain awareness.The service posted the draft yesterday under the title “Andromeda Draft RFP” but clarified the program is part of RG-XX. The program intends to award multiple indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts, according to the notice, with firm, fixed prices.Eventual contractors will “define, design, and build technologies and space-based systems for the Space Domain Awareness mission area,” the notice states.The government is looking for feedback on feasibility, clarity, testability and cost drivers of the requirements among other topics in the draft, the notice states.The RG-XX program is intended to replace the legacy Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP).Acting space acquisition chief Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy said last month that he expects the official request to be posted by the end of the year so long as funding comes through.Purdy would not give a number for how many satellites the service intends to buy, only saying he would like “as many as possible . . . as rapidly as possible.”The publicly viewable version of the draft RFP does not provide many details about capabilities, but Purdy has said that requirements were modified to ensure the program could be viable for commercial entrants. He also stated that space access, mobility and logistics (SAML) capabilities will be baked into the request.
A fire and shooting at a camp supporting Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade has injured one person. Vucic described the incident as a "terrorist attack." The fire broke out at tents set up outside the Serbian parliament, which were...
As the Army plans to move out on an ambitious plan to field 24 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft -- the MV-75 -- in two years, prime contractor Bell Textron plans to fly its first test aircraft in fiscal year 2027.Despite the Army Transformation Initiative and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s stated intent to get away from longer term programs of record, the secretary said earlier this year that the service intends to pull the MV-75 program to the left, with the goal of fielding 24 aircraft in 24 months.Ultimately, the Army wants to field the MV-75 to a brigade within 30 months, and to a battalion in 18 months, Ryan Ehinger, Bell’s senior vice president and program director for the MV-75, told Inside Defense last week on the showroom floor of the Association of the United States Army conference.About five months ago, Bell got the call from the Army to accelerate the program. The company gave a few options for accomplishing the task, including accelerating production, increasing the ramp rate and increasing the speed of deliveries of initial test aircraft, Ehinger said.The MV-75 is now more than “90% engineering released,” meaning that 90% of the hardware design work is done.“In terms of getting a test aircraft designed and built, getting that engineering released is the first step,” Ehinger said.The Army has told Bell it has enough confidence in the design of the MV-75 “ahead of multiple years of test activity,” according to Ehinger. After it builds the test aircraft, he said, the company plans to build its production aircraft “in parallel with our test activity.”“What gives me confidence in doing that is we've spent a significant amount of investment on the industry and the government side, on digital engineering, on model based systems engineering, on all the rigor to make sure that we are appropriately addressing the requirements that the Army has laid out, both on the hardware and the software side, and on the open systems architecture side. And the return on that investment is being able to accelerate production,” he said.Concurrent with its other work on the MV-75, Bell is working on sub assemblies for other parts such as the wings and fuselage, Ehinger added.The MV-75 will be the eventual replacement for the Black Hawk helicopter, with the Army having already started the process of divesting from older models of the legacy helicopter fleet. Brig. Gen. David Phillips, the Army’s program executive officer for aviation, told reporters during AUSA last week that the first two virtual prototypes will be delivered to Ft. Rucker, AL, and Redstone Arsenal, AL, with a critical design review scheduled for next spring.Meanwhile, the Army has been standing up a detachment team of about 30 people to examine the “DOTMLPF” aspect of the program -- referring to training and doctrine, according to Brig. Gen. Cain Baker, the service’s aviation future capabilities director.“As the equipment starts getting fielded, we’ve got experts that understand the doctrine piece of this, the training requirements, and then really the most important part, how the aircraft is going to perform from a sustainment aspect, from a flying aspect,” Baker said.The ramp rate on production for the MV-75 likely won’t occur until the 2030s, officials said during AUSA. No decision has been made yet on whether the Army will pursue an eleventh multiyear procurement contract for the Black Hawk, when the current one expires in FY-26. But Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, the commanding general of the Army Aviation Center of Excellence, said Black Hawks will still be operational when the service begins to “layer in” the newer aircraft into formations.“We’re all going to be off this earth and the Black Hawk’s still going to be flying,” Gill said.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday that police had detained a 25-year-old man for questioning after he had...
College football could be on the verge of one of the busiest coaching carousels in recent history. Six Power Four coaches were fired in the first two months of the season, and more are sure to follow in an era...
The action moves from the skies to the trains this time around.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish league president Javier Tebas says “narrow-minded” views have cost Spanish soccer a great chance to project itself globally after the planned regular-season game between Barcelona and Villarreal in the United States was called off.
Ed Watson cycled from the far north to the far south of Australia after the end of a relationship.
By Michelle NicholsUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -A new United Nations Secretary-General will be elected next year for a five-year term starting on...
Paleontologists have finally solved the mystery behind an elusive "sword dragon" skeleton found on the U.K.'s Jurassic Coast.
The future of Warner Bros. Discovery is up in the air, reigniting questions about industry consolidation, the evolving media landscape and how Americans families consume entertainment.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain. They visited a new center in Israel for civilian and military cooperation as...
Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries; How goats are solving the invasive plant problem on Tennessee River island
North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles on Wednesday, its first such launch in months just a week before world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, descend on South Korea for a summit.
The Charlotte Chess Center announced the passing of 29-year-old chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky through a social media post Monday morning.
Federal officers shot a man in the elbow and a deputy U.S. Marshal was hit in the hand with a ricochet bullet during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin used "The View" to call out the administration over its bad "optics."
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala passed a new anti-gang law on Tuesday aimed at giving the government more resources to fight the groups, which are now considered terrorist organizations.
In Pakistan, where gender affirmation surgery was recently legalised, Bunty is one of the few trans women who could afford to get it done safely. Despite winning the right to medically transition in 2018, many transgender people in the Muslim-majority nation still turn to unqualified surgeons because of a lack of trained doctors, high costs [...]The post Pakistan’s trans people struggle to get safe surgery appeared first on Digital Journal.
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Hong Kong authorities have reopened a runway where a cargo aircraft crashed, although it won't be used regularly until the wreckage is cleared. The runway and fencing were repaired and the runway reopened Tuesday evening. That's a day after the...
In Pakistan, where gender affirmation surgery was recently legalised, Bunty is one of the few trans women who could afford to get it done safely.
Demonstrators were seen near a federal building after an unknown number of detainees were taken by agents Hundreds showed up to protests that broke out in New York City on Tuesday evening after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) raids related to “selling counterfeit goods” were conducted in the Chinatown neighborhood earlier in the day and resulted in an unknown number of people being detained.Hours after federal agents descended on lower Manhattan, demonstrators were seen assembling near the 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Building where they believed detainees were taken. Many shouted chants including “Ice out of New York” and “No Ice, no KKK, no fascist USA.” Continue reading...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday that Ecuadorian police and security forces have restricted freedom of assembly and have periodically used disproportionate force against protesters since September 2025. Security forces have reportedly used tear gas, batons, and other “less-lethal” weapons indiscriminately and at close range, resulting in injury and, in some cases, death. HRW [...]The post Rights group claims Ecuador security forces have restricted public assembly appeared first on JURIST - News.
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears thanked President Donald Trump on her social media account shortly after, writing: "Thank you for your kind words of support, President Trump. And you're right — Abigail [Spanberger] would be a disaster for Virginia."
By Dominique PattonPARIS (Reuters) -L'Oreal's $4.7 billion deal to buy cosmetic and fragrance brands from Kering gives the French conglomerate rare...
October leads the off-season honeymoon trend as newlyweds trade peak travel chaos for lower rates and unhurried getaways. In response, resorts introduce romantic packages for ... Read moreThe post Off-season travel turns October into a honeymoon favorite appeared first on...
A huge police presence shut down streets in downtown London as tensions flared during a protest against a defence-sector event.
Denmark's Novo Nordisk said Tuesday it would replace more than half of its board, including the chair, as the Ozempic and Wegovy maker restructures in the face of rising competition for its anti-obesity treatments.
The U.S. stock market is drifting near its record heights. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% Tuesday and is sitting 0.4% below its all-time high set earlier this month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 155 points, and the Nasdaq composite...
Netflix, Comcast and Paramount Skydance are reportedly among possible bidders in sale that could shake up industryWarner Bros Discovery is considering an outright sale following interest from several potential buyers, the company said Tuesday, in what would be the latest shakeup across legacy media.Shares of the company rose 10.5% in morning trading. Netflix and Comcast are among the potential bidders, CNBC reported Tuesday, citing sources, following earlier reports that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison was also in talks to acquire the combined company. Continue reading...
The woman was returning home with her nephew after a hospital visit when they stopped at a gas station. She then went to a forested area to urinate and was attacked by three men
The French crown jewels robbed from the Louvre museum in Paris are likely lost forever, an art crime expert tells CBS News, even if the thieves are caught.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Barack Obama will campaign alongside Democrats Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill in the final stretch of their statewide campaigns for governor in Virginia and New Jersey.
Just months after announcing plans to split into two companies, Warner Bros. Discovery has signaled that it may be open to a sale of its business. In an announcement Tuesday, the entertainment giant said it had initiated a review of...
France's culture minister says the Louvre's security worked properly during a dramatic heist over the weekend. Thieves stole historic jewels from the museum on Sunday. They used a basket lift to reach the Louvre’s facade, forced a window, and smashed...
An official preliminary report says the failure of a steel cable and shortcomings in maintenance contributed to the crash of a streetcar in the Portuguese capital Lisbon last month
The mass evacuation by military aircraft of hundreds of residents from Alaska villages ravaged by the remnants of Typhoon Halong is complete. Officials and local leaders are turning attention to trying to stabilize damaged infrastructure and housing where they can...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a “safe third country” agreement with the United States, the two sides said on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ramp up deportations and dissuade migration...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The small Central American nation of Belize has signed a “safe third country” agreement with the United States, the two sides said on Monday, as the Trump administration seeks to ra...
Golden Knights starting goaltender Adin Hill left Monday’s game against Carolina with an apparent leg injury midway through the first period. After making a save, Hill went down to the ice and stayed there for several minutes. After a brief...
Myanmar's military says it has shut down a major online scam operation near the Thailand border. State media reported Monday that more than 2,000 people were detained, and dozens of Starlink satellite internet terminals were seized. Myanmar is known for...
In first interview since Glastonbury, frontman Bobby Vylan tells Louis Theroux the backlash was ‘minimal’ compared to the plight of PalestiniansBob Vylan frontman Bobby Vylan is “not regretful” of his “death, death to the IDF” chant at Glastonbury and said he would “do it again tomorrow, twice on Sundays”.The outspoken punk duo sparked controversy when they led chants of “death, death to the IDF”, referring to the Israel Defense Forces, at the festival in June. The chant was condemned by Glastonbury and the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, who described it as “appalling hate speech”. Continue reading...
An immigration attorney in Chelsea, Massachusetts, is suing the federal government after agents with the Department of Homeland Security seized his cellphone at Logan Airport in Boston — an action he said was unreasonable and a violation of his clients’ rights.Andrew Lattarulo has represented several high-profile clients in Massachusetts, including a 13-year-old boy recently detained in Everett by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and a Brazilian woman in Worcester whose detainment in May prompted outrage by immigrant advocates. He filed a suit asking a federal judge to order the Trump administration to destroy the data it took from his phone.“Attorney Lattarulo brought this case to protect his clients,” said Patrick Hanley, Lattarulo’s attorney. “He’s very aware and very knowledgeable of the administration’s current enforcement priorities. He makes the people that are interested in that, like his clients, aware of it.”According to court filings, Lattarulo was returning from a trip to Aruba with his brother and his law partner, Audai Cote, on Sept. 27 when federal agents approached him at Terminal C and confiscated his phone without a warrant.The government argued in court that agents had “reasonable suspicion,” noting that Homeland Security Investigations had been looking into Lattarulo’s law firm for possibly employing undocumented workers.Investigators said they flagged 117 people in the firm’s employment verification forms — also known as I-9s — who allegedly lacked proper work documentation.Lattarulo’s lawyers said that only his phone was seized, not his partner’s, and that the government is retaliating against him for publicly criticizing federal immigration policies online.“There does seem to be another motive, and we don’t see the government arguing that they’re looking for information on account of him being an immigration attorney,” said Stefanie Fisher-Pinkert, an immigration lawyer who liaises with Customs and Border Protection at Logan Airport. “In our liaison conversations with CBP, they’ve noted that there is training for officers, and if somebody says, ‘Hey, I’m an attorney, and I have attorney-client privileged information on there,’ that they are required to take certain precautions. That doesn’t mean they don’t have that reasonable suspicion on an unrelated topic.”Other immigration attorneys, including Eloa Celedon, expressed concern about what this means for their profession.“We’re walking around like, ‘Are we targets, or is my phone going to be taken away, is my laptop going to be taken away?'” Celedon said.“On rare occasions, officers/agents may search a traveler’s mobile phone, or other electronic devices during the inspection process,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “CBP has established strict guidelines to ensure that these searches are exercised judiciously and responsibly.”For now, a federal judge has ordered the government not to search or destroy the copied data from Lattarulo’s phone until she makes a final ruling.More immigration newsImmigrationOct 1513-year-old detained by ICE in Everett, rally held calling for his releaseImmigrationOct 13Chicago man fined $130 by ICE agents for not carrying Green CardImmigrationOct 12Feeling hopeless in custody, many drop claims to remain in the US, leave voluntarily
Owen Tippett is working on a strong start with the Philadelphia Flyers. Tippett extended his scoring streak to three in a row when he picked up two more goals in a 5-2 victory over Seattle. It’s the second-longest such streak...
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OTTAWA — The federal Liberals say they plan to direct banks to have new policies and procedures in place to detect and prevent fraud.
People with a leading cause of blindness were able to read again thanks to a tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the eye and specialized augmented glasses, according to study results published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The trial involved 38 European patients, all of whom had an advanced stage of dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) known as geographic atrophy. There is no cure for AMD, which is driven by changes in a part of the retina called the macula and caused by inflammation and a build-up of waste. The photoreceptor cells in the macula are responsible for producing sharp, detailed and colored vision. When the disease has progressed to the geographic atrophy stage, these cells deteriorate and die, and people lose their central vision — meaning that an object straight ahead may appear blurry or covered up with a dark blotch. Roughly 22 million people in the U.S. have AMD, and about 1 million have geographic atrophy, according to the American Macular Degeneration Foundation.In the study, the participants, who had an average age of 79,were fitted with the “PRIMA device,” a system meant to replicate vision. Patients wear augmented reality glasses embedded with a camera that captures their visual field. What the camera “sees” is transmitted to the chip implanted in their eye in the form of infrared light. The chip converts the light into an electrical current, which stimulates the remaining healthy cells in the macula in a realistic way, enabling signals these cells send to be interpreted by the brain as vision. An image processor, which the user must carry, lets patients zoom in and magnify the images they see, which appear in black and white.With the help of the PRIMA device, 80% of the 32 patients who returned for a reassessment one year after the chip implantation had achieved clinically meaningful visual improvements. Patients did experience side effects, predominantly related to the surgical procedure: The study reported that 26 serious adverse events occurred in 19 of the patients, ranging from elevated blood pressure in the eye to an accumulation of blood around the retina. The majority of the adverse events resolved within two months of the implantation. “It’s the first ever therapeutic approach that has led to an improvement in visual function in this group of patients,” said Dr. Frank Holz, the trial’s lead investigator and chair of the department of ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany. “Late-stage age-related macular degeneration is a dismal disease. Patients are no longer capable of reading, driving a car, watching TV or even recognizing faces. So [these results] are a game-changer in my mind.”One patient, Sheila Irvine, 70, who was fitted with the PRIMA device at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, said in a statement provided by the hospital that her life before receiving the implant was akin to “having two black discs in my eyes, with the outside distorted.” A self-described “avid bookworm” before losing her vision, Irvine said she was now able to do crosswords and read prescriptions.Dr. Sunir Garg, professor of ophthalmology at the retina service of Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study, said the results represent a breakthrough for patients with geographic atrophy. All doctors have been able to offer, he said, are visual aids, like magnifiers, and emotional support.“Even with new medical therapies, the best that we can do is slow it down,” said Garg, who works with several drugmakers involved in treatments for AMD, including Apellis Pharmaceuticals, the maker of pegcetacoplan. That drug, which slows the progression of geographic atrophy, was recently approved in the U.S. and must be injected into the eye every 1 to 2 months. “We can’t stop it, and we can’t do anything to bring back lost vision.”Dr. Demetrios Vavvas, director of the retina service at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston, who was also not involved in the study, said that the PRIMA system is not without limitations.Vavvas noted that the surgery required to implant the chip in the eye requires a high level of surgical skill and is not without risk. “You have to lift the retina off its normal position to implant this device, which increases the atrophy,” said Vavvas, who is a consultant to Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals, a company working on stem cell therapies for patients with other forms of vision loss. Vavvas said it was important to note that the device isn’t restoring normal vision, as patients were only able to see in black and white rather than color, and the trial participants had to undergo a significant amount of training in order to learn how to see with the PRIMA device. He also said that it wasn’t clear whether the enhancements in visual ability had significantly improved the patients’ quality of life.But at the same time, Vavvas was also optimistic about its future potential, describing the current iteration of PRIMA as a key stepping stone in the field of vision restoration. “Think of this device as the pre-release iPhone,” he said. “The limitations are clear. We shouldn’t oversell that the quality of life really improved. But there were certain [visual] tasks at which the patients were clearly better. So it shows to us that there is potential in this approach. It is still in some ways, a prototype. They’re working on iterations of this device that will be better.”New upgrades to the PRIMA device could be coming in the next couple of years. The PRIMA system was invented by Stanford University ophthalmology professor Daniel Palanker and is being developed by the California-based neural engineering company Science Corporation.Palanker said technical improvements are being made to increase the number of pixels in the chip from 400 to 10,000. The new chips have already been tested in rats, and the upgraded chips are being manufactured for future human trials. With the aid of the camera’s zoom function, Palanker said that this could theoretically enable patients to achieve 20/20 visual resolution.“We are also working on next generation software that will allow patients to perceive not just black-and-white text, but also grey-scale natural images, such as faces,” Palanker said.Palanker suggested that the technology could be trialed in other retinal diseases that cause blindness, such as Stargardt disease, which has similar symptoms to age-related macular degeneration but is genetic and usually affects younger people.Garg and Vavvas are eager to see larger trials that provide more details about how the device improves patients’ ability to function on a day-to-day basis. Vavvas suggested that future trials should include a control arm to understand the extent to which the device yields real-world benefits, for example compared to existing electronic magnifiers. “Is it something that is good enough for patients to say, ‘Well, I’ve regained my independence because I can now do my credit card bills myself, stamp and address my envelopes myself, and look at grocery store labels?’” Garg said. “Those kinds of practical things I would like to know more about.”“This is a chronic disease that you will have for life, so we need more than one year of follow-up to see other risks, other problems,” Vavvassaid. “Does that signal of efficacy that we see at 12 months, remain two years later?”While Vavvas said he would not call the device a complete panacea for blindness, the study showed that brain-computer interfaces can represent an important approach to tackling different kinds of severe visual impairment. “As the iterations of this device become better and better, it could become a real solution for a cohort of patients,” he said.
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