America Has a Police Shortage
Many Americans have decided that their country’s problem is that it has too many police officers. In fact, it has too few.
Smiling pope returns to Vatican after cancer surgery
Pope Leo XIV's discharge on Saturday, four days after undergoing lung cancer surgery, ended a stretch of uncertainty that shook the Vatican and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, less than two years into the Chicago-born pope's papacy.
Kylie Minogue songs already used to train AI as tech firms ‘strong-arm’ Australian government, music body warns
Of the dozens of countries approached to water down their laws, Australia appears to be the only one considering it, publishers’ group says * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast AI has already been trained on the works of Australian artists including Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without compensation, the peak global body for music rights has claimed, as the Australian government has been warned against giving in to “strong-arming” from tech companies seeking to weaken copyright law. The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) – which represents Sony, Warner and Universal as well as thousands of independent publishers on six continents – has warned that of the dozens of countries approached to water down copyright laws, Australia appears to be the only to consider doing so. Continue reading...
India’s Cockroach Janta party leader arrested amid crackdown on protests
Abhijeet Dipke was detained before planned anti-government demonstrations in Delhi The leader of the Cockroach Janta party (CJP) youth movement, Abhijeet Dipke, was detained by police on Friday and then later formally arrested as authorities cracked down on fresh anti-government protests in the Indian capital. Dipke was detained before a planned Friday evening demonstration he had called in central Delhi, urging supporters of the movement to come out and hold up the Indian flag. Continue reading...
Cool runnings
Sunday marked the 14th year of the annual WFPS Run in support of the Heart & Stroke Foundation in Winnipeg.
Ben Simmons’ NBA comeback derailed after tearing achilles tendon in practice
* Kings guard to undergo surgery and miss start of NBA season * Former No 1 draft pick has been attempting to revive his career Ben Simmons’ comeback attempt is over before the start of the NBA regular season after he suffered a devastating injury at practice. The Australian tore his right achilles tendon during a live drill just three days out from Sacramento’s season opener against the Los Angeles Clippers and will undergo surgery. The 30-year-old had signed a one-year deal with the Kings in an attempt to revive a career ravaged by a series of significant injury setbacks and had shown promising flashes in pre-season, including a productive 26 minutes in a loss to San Antonio. Continue reading...
US ambassador to Israel calls West Bank settler attack on American photojournalist ‘terror’
Mike Huckabee calls for arrest and prosecution of those responsible as Heidi Levine, 63, recovers in hospital in Israel The US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has denounced the settler attack that left the Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine badly beaten and needing surgery as a “despicable act of terror” and called for the arrest and prosecution of those responsible. Levine, 63, an award-winning journalist who lives in Israel, was set upon last Friday by masked Israeli settlers who used clubs and other weapons to attack Palestinian people attempting to harvest their olives in occupied West Bank towns. Continue reading...
Guardian reporter filmed masked militants seconds before West Bank attack on French mayor
New video footage of Israeli settler assault on European delegation as Netanyahu attempts to raise doubt Hours after Israeli militants attacked a delegation of European diplomats, French clerics and a visiting mayor in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded by questioning the delegation’s account of the assault. “Serious accusations require serious evidence” was the all-caps headline of a social media post from the office of the prime minister. As news of the attack spread globally there was no pledge to find those accountable and bring them to justice. Continue reading...
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