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☆ A Boston guaranteed income program gave families $583 a month. It helped them buy first homes and pay off debt.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewA Boston guaranteed income program gave payments of nearly $600 a month for two years to 50 families. In August 2021, Camp Harbor View, in partnership with UpTogether, launched the Direct Cash Program, one of the largest privately funded US guaranteed income programs. AdvertisementTo be sure, short-term guaranteed income programs don't always set participants up for long-term financial success. Additionally, families reported a 23% decline in the risk of psychological distress, compared to an increase of 8% for families in the control group. About 45% of families saved enough for an emergency, compared to 14% of those not receiving monthly income.

Persons: —, UpTogether, Sherene Blake, CHV, Boston — Organizations: Service, Business, Cambridge, Boston Locations: Camp Harbor, Boston, Cambridge, Rise, Dorchester, inequity

☆ I am very sad for the NYPD's useless and purgatory-bound subway robot
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Sophie Kleeman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But now the NYPD robot has been placed in purgatory — a barren shopfront — and I am no longer laughing. According to The New York Times, K5 has been removed from its post in the Times Square subway station, where it required constant guardianship from human police officers. "The robot for the police, or the police for the robot?" ⁦@danarubinstein⁩ and ⁦@HurubieMeko⁩ on the sad fate of the NYPD robot. Similarly, the NYPD told me that K5 "has completed its pilot deployment in the NYC subway system."

Persons: Eric Adams, @HurubieMeko⁩, ezsZJ3mgWc — Maria Cramer, @NYTimesCramer, I, it's Organizations: New York City, NYPD, The New York Times, Times, City Hall, Yankees Locations: NYC

Many of the “over-reported records” in the audit were because of bad data entry processes, "rather than intentional falsification of traffic stop data,” said the report, commissioned by Gov. The investigators, however, also said they found “significant failures” by state police in reporting accurate traffic stop information to a statewide databased used to analyze any potential racial profiling by police. The audit said 130 troopers had been identified as having a significant disparity between traffic stop information submitted to the database compared with the court system. State police have been reviewing the traffic citation data. What we have seen is information that provides explanations for why some of the data may have been inaccurate.”

Persons: “, ”, Ned Lamont, Attorney Deidre Daly, —, Lamont, Ken Barone, ” Barone Organizations: Gov, U.S, Attorney, University of Connecticut, UConn, Justice, Transportation Locations: HARTFORD, Conn, Seven Connecticut

☆ Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg 'needs to do the right thing' in child sex targeting fight: New Mexico AG
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

New Mexico's attorney general slammed Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday for failing to protect children from sexual predators on Facebook and Instagram. Torrez sued Meta and Zuckerberg in December, alleging that Facebook and Instagram were "prime locations" for predators who engaged in sexual abuse, solicitation and trafficking. "By their own reckoning, nearly 100,000 children a day receive sexually explicit material or are targeted for sexual harassment" on social media, Torrez said. The attorney general said Zuckerberg "absolutely" was directly warned about the threat to children on those hugely popular social media sites. "Meta executives have known for years that their platforms were a breeding ground for pedophiles, for predators," Torrez told CNBC on Wednesday.

Persons: General Raúl Torrez, Mark Zuckerberg, Raul Torrez, CNBC's Eamon Javers, Zuckerberg, Torrez, Meta Organizations: New, Meta, Facebook, U.S . Capitol, Committee, CNBC, AG Locations: New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M

☆ Fentanyl crisis in Oregon: 90-day state of emergency declared in downtown Portland
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Amy Simonson | Lauren Mascarenhas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Oregon leaders joined forces to declare a 90-day state of emergency in downtown Portland, funneling resources into the city’s deadly fentanyl crisis. Oregon voters passed Measure 110 in 2020, which decriminalized some use of hard-drugs, including fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid. The measure has received criticism, as opioid overdose deaths steadily climbed since. Opioid overdose deaths in the state increased from 280 in 2019 to 956 in 2022, according to the state’s data. Experts say reversing the trends in overdose deaths really depends on broader access to and use of treatments for opioid use disorder.

Persons: Tina Kotek, Jessica Vega Pederson, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, ” Kotek, ”, “, ” Pederson Organizations: CNN, Oregon, Oregon Gov, Portland Mayor, US Centers of Disease Control, CDC, Portland Central City Task Force, Portland Police Bureau, Oregon State Police Locations: Portland, Multnomah, Portland’s Central City, Oregon

☆ California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the Supreme Court to make it easier to clear homeless encampments. Advocates say that will make the crisis worse.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Supreme Court will review a Ninth Circuit decision protecting unsheltered homelessness. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court earlier this month announced it would take up the most consequential case dealing with homelessness in decades. Gavin Newsom, have also asked the Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, arguing that it makes it difficult or impossible to address the homelessness crisis. Last year, a Maricopa County judge ordered Phoenix officials to clear the Zone. "Local officials can still cite, arrest, and prosecute people for any other violation of the law, including for all crimes against people and property."

Persons: Gavin Newsom, —, Johnson, California's, Newsom, Kate Gallego, Jeffrey Selbin, Selbin, Jesse Rabinowitz, court's Organizations: Circuit, CA Gov, Service, Ninth Circuit, California Gov, Phoenix, UC Berkeley, Advocacy Clinic, National Homelessness Law Locations: Grants Pass , Oregon, Martin v, Boise, Phoenix , Arizona, Maricopa, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco

☆ Foreign-born residents in Japan sue the government for alleged racial profiling
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Saki Toi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Tokyo CNN —Three foreign-born residents in Japan are suing the country’s government over alleged racial profiling, highlighting an ongoing debate about Japanese identity and nationality. The three plaintiffs, all residents of Tokyo, filed the lawsuit in the Tokyo National Court and held a news conference with their lawyers on Monday, according to public broadcaster NHK. One plaintiff came to Japan from India after marrying his wife, and has lived there for more than 20 years, NHK reported. Since then, he has been repeatedly stopped and questioned by police officers on the street, sometimes twice a day. The third plaintiff is an American-born man who said he hoped to raise awareness of the issue among the Japanese population, according to Reuters.

Persons: “, ”, Philip Fong, Nissin, Naomi Osaka –, Karolina Shiino Organizations: Tokyo CNN —, Tokyo National Court, NHK, Aichi, Reuters, Court, Getty, CNN, Pew Locations: Japan, Tokyo, India, Pakistani, American, AFP, Aichi, Nagoya

☆ Mayor Adams Is Braced for Defeat on 2 Criminal Justice Bills
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Emma G. Fitzsimmons | Dana Rubinstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The New York City Council is expected to override Mayor Eric Adams’s veto of two criminal justice bills on Tuesday, delivering what would be a major defeat to Mr. Adams and his administration’s emphasis on strengthening law enforcement efforts. The bills, which would force police officers to document more of their interactions with the public and would end solitary confinement in city jails, have opened a bitter rift between Mr. Adams and Democratic leaders in the City Council. Mr. Adams, a Democrat who ran for office on a public safety message, has warned that the bills would make the city and its jails more dangerous. He vowed to fight the override until the last moment and encouraged moderate council members to support him. “Crime is down, and New York remains the safest big city in America,” Mr. Adams said in a statement, adding that the bill to document police stops would “undermine that progress and make our city less safe.”

Persons: Eric Adams’s, Adams, ” Mr Organizations: New, Democratic, City Council, Democrat Locations: New York, City, America

☆ An America Where Guns Do the Talking
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Rachel Louise Snyder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

ONE NATION UNDER GUNS: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy, by Dominic ErdozainWHAT WE’VE BECOME: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms, by Jonathan M. MetzlLast year, a friend from Brunei visited me in the United States. She is American but was raised in Sudan and has lived in Cambodia and Scotland, among other places. We were talking about the rise in anxiety among teenagers in America when another friend texted me; her daughter had just arrived home from school, where she’d spent the afternoon in lockdown. Are mass shootings, record suicides and endless homicides the new norm even for those of us who aren’t interested in accumulating arsenals? deliveryman knocks on Erdozain’s door, he dives for cover like a “shot fox.” As with the lockdown at my friend’s daughter’s school, the threat abates, but the emotional tremors linger.

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Several elected leaders in Oregon declared a state of emergency on Tuesday for downtown Portland over the public health and public safety crisis fueled by fentanyl. The declaration is a recommendation from a governor-established task force that met for several months last year to determine ways to rejuvenate downtown Portland. The effort also extends the Portland Police Bureau’s partnership with Oregon State Police to jointly patrol downtown streets for fentanyl sales. At the state level, Oregon lawmakers have introduced a new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s drug decriminalization law. Public opinion has soured on it as public drug use has become more visible because of growing homelessness.

Persons: Tina Kotek, Ted Wheeler, Jessica Vega Pederson, ” Kotek, Mike Myers, Nathan Reynolds, Kotek, Joe Biden, Xi Jinping Organizations: Oregon Gov, Staff, Portland, Portland’s Community Safety Division, state’s, Resilience, Emergency Management, Portland Police, Oregon State Police Locations: PORTLAND, Oregon, Portland, Multnomah, Portland’s, Narcan, China, America, Mexico, U.S

☆ The N.Y.P.D. Pulled Over a City Councilman. Now Both Are Under Fire.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( Jeffery C. Mays | Emma G. Fitzsimmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An officer walked toward his car, asking him to roll down the tinted windows. When the officer reached the driver’s side, Mr. Salaam identified himself as a councilman. The officer asked Mr. Salaam if he was working; Mr. Salaam replied that he was and asked why he had been stopped. The officer did not answer but sent Mr. Salaam on his way. Other elected officials viewed it as an example of a City Council member’s invoking his position to try to get out of a ticket.

Persons: Yusef Salaam, Salaam, Mr, Eric Adams Organizations: New York, Central, Mr, City Locations: Harlem, Georgia

☆ House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas over the border
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they vowed to swiftly push forward with efforts to oust the Cabinet member over what they call his failure to manage the U.S.-Mexico border. Ever since taking control of the House in 2023, Republicans have pushed to impeach Mayorkas. The Republican-controlled House Homeland Security Committee is set to vote Tuesday on the articles of impeachment, aiming to send them to the full House for consideration. Democrats say Republicans have held a sham of an impeachment process against Mayorkas and lack the constitutional grounds to impeach the secretary. They have argued that Mayorkas is doing the best he can to manage border security but with a system that hasn't been updated in decades and is chronically underfunded.

Persons: Alejandro Mayorkas, Mayorkas, Alejandro, systemically, —, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Biden, it's, William Belknap, Ulysses Grant, Belknap, he'd Organizations: Sunday, Homeland, Democrats, Republicans, Democratic, Mayorkas, Republican, GOP, Homeland Security, Trump, Border, Congress, DHS, Senate Locations: U.S, Mexico, United States, Customs, New York, America

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they vowed to swiftly push forward with election-year efforts to oust the Cabinet member over what they call his failure to manage the U.S.-Mexico border. Ever since taking control of the House in 2023, Republicans have pushed to impeach Mayorkas. The Republican-controlled House Homeland Security Committee is set to vote Tuesday on the articles of impeachment, aiming to send them to the full House for consideration. Democrats say Republicans have held a sham of an impeachment process against Mayorkas and lack the constitutional grounds to impeach the secretary. They have argued that Mayorkas is doing the best he can to manage border security but with a system that hasn’t been updated in decades and is chronically underfunded.

Persons: Alejandro Mayorkas, Mayorkas, “ Alejandro, systemically, —, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Biden, it’s, William Belknap, Ulysses Grant, Belknap, he’d Organizations: WASHINGTON, —, Republicans, Sunday, Homeland, Democrats, Democratic, Mayorkas, Republican, Homeland Security, Trump, Border, Congress, DHS, Senate Locations: U.S, Mexico, United States, Customs, New York, America

☆ Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

"It was determined to be a hoax ... Nikki Haley is not on the island and her son is with her." Law enforcement agencies have not publicly identified a suspect in the Haley case or in other high-profile swatting cases. Reuters has documented at least 27 swatting incidents of politicians, prosecutors, election officials and judges since November 2023, ranging from Georgia Republican state officials to hoaxes this month against Democrat Joe Biden's residence at the White House. Senator Rick Scott on Dec. 27, weeks after he endorsed Trump, according to records from the Naples Police Department. A caller identifying himself as "Jamal" also targeted Georgia Republican state senator John Albers on Dec. 26, according to an incident report from the Roswell Police Department.

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And it certainly wouldn’t be the first time states have lent a hand to Abbott to help border security efforts. Kevin Stitt also sent National Guard troops to the border last year – about 50 of them each – to, at least symbolically, bolster Abbott’s efforts. “[Abbott] is exactly right to invoke Texas’ constitutional authority to defend itself,” she said in a statement. “It's unfortunate that there is a governor in Texas, Governor Abbott, who has politicized this issue of what's happening on the border. “Governor Greg Abbott is using the Texas National Guard to obstruct and create chaos at the border,” Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas Democrat, said in a statement.

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☆ An Amish family had their horse and buggy stolen from a Walmart parking lot while they were shopping, police say
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewAn Amish family had their horse and buggy stolen from a Walmart parking lot while they were inside shopping, police said this week. A truck driver, who was parked in the lot, told police that he saw a woman stealing the buggy. Later that evening, the horse and buggy were found a little over two miles away from the store. AdvertisementAccording to Amish America, a website about Amish culture and communities, Michigan has the sixth largest Amish population in the US. More than 10% of the state's Amish population live in a community near Centreville, roughly 14 miles from the Sturgis Walmart.

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Eagle Pass, Texas CNN —As the migrant crisis continues at the US-Mexico border and beyond, tensions between Texas and federal officials remain high. Here are the latest developments:Cold, hungry and bloodied from razor wire grazes. Now they’ve found themselves in the middle of the ongoing border battle between Texas and the US federal government. Under federal policy, migrants like Kevin and Vanessa would have surrendered two days ago, been taken into custody by federal authorities and transported for immigration processing. Venezuelan couple Kevin and Vanessa stand behind razor wire at the US-Mexico border.

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☆ Republicans are urging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court at the border
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The ruling allows for federal agents to cut through Texas' wire fencing at the southern border. Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy suggested that the state should tell the Supreme Court to "go to hell." "And if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority did, Texas still had the duty, Texas leaders still have the duty, to defend their people." Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said in a Tuesday interview on Fox News that the Supreme Court ruling makes him "angry." AdvertisementDespite the Supreme Court's ruling allowing federal border agents to remove the wire fencing, Texas Gov.

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☆ Amazon's Ring will stop allowing police to request doorbell video footage from users
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amazon 's Ring will no longer allow police to request users' doorbell video footage in its neighborhood watch app. Ring in 2021 made police requests for user footage public in its Neighbors app. Previously, law enforcement could message users privately to request clips from their smart doorbell cameras. Jamie Siminoff, Ring's former CEO, couched the features as a public safety tool that would help communities. "My goal would be to have every law enforcement agency on the police portal," Siminoff told CBS in 2019.

Persons: Ring, Erik Kuhn, Sen, Ed Markey, Jamie Siminoff, Siminoff, Elizabeth Hamren, Kuhn Organizations: Amazon, Police, Privacy, CBS, Microsoft Locations: Seattle

The lawsuit alleges that school personnel at Taylor Allderdice High School failed to provide adequate supervision and care of the girl during school hours and during transportation to and from school. The painful result was her sexual assault.” said attorney Alec Wright, who represents the girl and her mother in the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Starbucks employees witnessed the male students taking turns entering the bathroom with the girl and did not intervene. The girl's mother notified school officials that her daughter would need help adjusting to high school and with taking public transportation to school, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Starbucks employees allowed students largely unrestricted access to its bathrooms partly because the students increased the store's sales.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon-owned Ring will stop allowing police departments to request doorbell camera footage from users, marking an end to a feature that has drawn criticism from privacy advocates. In a blog post on Wednesday, Ring said it will sunset the “Request for Assistance” tool, which allows police departments and other public safety agencies to request and receive video captured by the doorbell cameras through Ring’s Neighbors app. Eric Kuhn, the head of Neighbors, said in the announcement that law enforcement agencies will still be able to make public posts in the Neighbors app. In a bid to increase transparency, Ring changed its policy in 2021 to make police requests publicly visible through its Neighbors app. Ring also maintains the right to share footage without user consent in limited circumstances.

Persons: Ring, Eric Kuhn, ” Kuhn, Matthew Guariglia Organizations: . Police, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Trade Commission Locations: Guariglia

☆ Amazon’s Ring to shutter video-sharing program popular with police
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Authorities seeking Ring surveillance videos must now submit a formal legal request to the company, rather than soliciting footage directly from users through the app, Ring said in a blog post Wednesday. Hundreds of law enforcement agencies have struck up partnerships with Ring, according to a tracker maintained by the consumer advocacy group Fight for the Future. But, he warned, it would not necessarily stop police from continuing to persuade Ring users to voluntarily give up their rights. Police are able to contact Ring users off the app. And Ring users can still decide if they want to voluntarily send video, sounds or images from their Ring devices to law enforcement.

Persons: ”, Evan Greer, Matthew Guariglia, Guariglia, didn’t, Ring, Massachusetts Democratic Sen, Ed Markey, “, enforcement’s Organizations: CNN, “, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Police, Fraternal, of Police, EFF, Massachusetts Democratic Locations: Massachusetts

☆ Lula's Approval Ratings Inch up Ahead of Brazil's Local Elections -Poll
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Jan. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

Those who consider Lula's administration as bad or terrible increased marginally to 27.9% from 27.2 four months ago, it showed. The rating of the leftist president's performance edged up to 55.2% from 54.9% in September, while disapproval also rose slightly to 39.6 from 39.0%, the MDA poll commissioned by the transport sector lobby CNT. Lula gets his best approval ratings among lower-income Brazilians and in poorer northeastern Brazil, his political bastion. He does badly among higher income groups and evangelical Christian voters, MDA said. MDA polled 2,002 people in person between Jan. 18-21 and the poll has a margin of error of 2.2 percentage points.

Persons: Luiz Inacio Lula da, Lula, Marcelo Souza, Anthony Boadle, Steven Grattan, Susan Fenton Organizations: Reuters, pollster MDA, MDA, CNT, Christian Locations: BRASILIA, Brazil

TORONTO (AP) — A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional. In the decision released Tuesday, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley said the invocation of the Emergencies Act led to the infringement of constitutional rights. Political Cartoons View All 253 Images“I conclude that there was no national emergency justifying the invocation of the Emergencies Act and the decision to do so was therefore unreasonable,” Mosley wrote. Freeland said it was a hard decision to invoke the act but called the protests a serious threat to public safety, national security and Canada's economic security. The protests were first aimed at a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for cross-border truckers.

Persons: Hill, Justin Trudeau’s, Richard Mosley, ” Mosley, Chrystia Freeland, Freeland, Trudeau Organizations: TORONTO, Canadian, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal, Convoy, Police, Federal, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Ottawa, Canada’s, Rights, Freedoms Locations: Ottawa, U.S, Canada, Coutts , Alberta, Montana, France , New Zealand, Netherlands, Windsor , Ontario, Detroit

☆ Trudeau Meets to Rally Ministers, Lawmakers Around Key Issues as Reelection Support Sags
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre would clobber Trudeau if an election were held today, according to an Angus Reid Institute poll published on Monday. Fewer than three-in-five (57%) of those who voted Liberal in 2021 say they would do so again, the pollster said. "This cabinet retreat is focused on issues as important as housing affordability and housing accessibility," Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told reporters late on Sunday. While president, Trump forced the renegotiation of the North American trade pact, a vital agreement for the Canadian economy. Last week, Trudeau said a second Trump presidency would be challenging and would reflect "a lot of anguish and fury."

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