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☆ Opinion | The New N.Y.P.D. Motto Is Missing Some Important Words
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Mara Gay | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Patrol cars used by the New York Police Department will soon bear a new motto, news that made me raise an eyebrow. Three important words — “Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect” — have been on the side of patrol cars since 1996, when this New York City kid was just 9 years old. And the N.Y.P.D.’s decision to drop the old motto — born in an era when the department was at least attempting to solicit the good will of a skeptical public — feels notable. It reminded me of a weird episode at the Police Department earlier this year when the department and several members of the top brass began using their official N.Y.P.D. social media accounts to attack a city councilwoman, a political activist and journalists.

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☆ When your home becomes a tourist attraction
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Lilit Marcus | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But for the people who actually do live in those homes, social media photography has changed what it means to live in a picturesque place. Once, she and a friend were walking his French bulldog when a tourist asked if they could “borrow” the pup for a quick photo op. Private lives, public placesIn that story, everybody had a good time. “I was once woken up at 6 a.m. on Easter Sunday by French teenagers taking pictures outside,” Johnston says. When private homes – and the people who live in them – become tourist attractions, clashes can occur.

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☆ The sting of an Airbnb rejection: Hosts explain why they turn down all sorts of travelers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Marylou Costa | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

She said she feels checking potential guests' social media profiles is warranted if she thinks their stay could cause problems. But unfortunately, over the last few years, there have been at least three situations where I felt the need to check people's social media beforehand." Borman, however, is part of the 8% who said they look at guests' social media profiles prior to accepting a booking. "We delve into social media as a more advanced check when we have suspicions about somebody," he said. A 4.5-star rating isn't enoughAirbnb superhost Crystal Shell, who manages short-term rentals in Alabama under the management company Bailey-Trace, doesn't check renters' social media profiles, she said.

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☆ Street Erupts When Man in a Wheelchair Is Taken Into Custody in Killing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | Dean Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Manhattan street erupted in anger on Monday when a man in a wheelchair was taken into custody in the killing of a young woman, whose body had been found wrapped in a blue sleeping bag days before. Some got close enough to punch him in the face, grab his jeans and rip the back of his blue-and-yellow striped shirt. Officers and emergency service workers held out their arms to keep the crowd at bay. Some of the loudest screams were from Ms. Williams’s mother, Nicole Williams. Neighbors said he and Yazmeen Williams were a couple, but the family said they were not familiar with him.

Persons: Yazmeen Williams, Williams’s, Nicole Williams, “, ”, Neighbors Locations: Manhattan

☆ Card skimmers are hard to spot and on the rise. Here's what you can do to protect yourself.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewCredit card skimmers are on the rise nationwide and they're targeting the country's most financially vulnerable people. The FBI estimates that card skimming costs consumers and banks around $1 billion each year. Last year, Fair, Isaac and Company, a financial data analytics firm, found that debit card skimming grew by a whopping 96% compared to the previous year. Related storiesAuthorities nationwide say reports of card skimming and EBT fraud have increased over the past year. The New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance issued an EBT scam alert on July 2, warning of increases in card skimming and phishing.

Persons: —, Isaac, WJXT Organizations: Service, FBI, Isaac and Company, Business, Secret Service, Police, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, Seattle Times, Authorities, New York Office, Assistance, NY Locations: Florida, Virginia , New York

☆ Weeks After Alice Munro’s Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Elizabeth A. Harris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Andrea Robin Skinner, a daughter of the Canadian Nobel laureate Alice Munro, said that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child — and that her mother knew about it, and chose to stay with him anyway. Skinner, who is now an adult, detailed these accusations in an essay in the Toronto Star on Sunday. According to a separate article in the Toronto Star, Skinner went to the Ontario police, and in 2005, her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, was charged with indecent assault against her. Because of her mother’s fame, Skinner wrote, “the silence continued.” Munro died on May 13 at 92. “What I wanted was some record of the truth, some public proof that I hadn’t deserved what had happened to me,” Skinner wrote of going to the police in 2005, about 30 years after the abuse began.

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☆ OpenAI's latest reputation problem: hackers
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Related storiesOpenAI told Business Insider that the company had "identified and fixed" the "underlying security issue" that led to the breach. AdvertisementStill, the hacking prompted concern inside and outside the company that OpenAI's security is too weak, leaving it open to foreign adversaries like China. He described the company's security as "egregiously insufficient" to protect against theft by foreign actors. A month after OpenAI fired Aschenbrenner, two more of the team's top members quit, and the team effectively dissolved.

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☆ 'A kind of civil war': Divided France on high alert for unrest amid political earthquake
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has said French voters now have a "moral duty" to halt the party's advance. The officer — a father of three who's in his 40s, and a right-leaning voter — said the polarization in French society was "very worrying, but unfortunately normal with the 'diversity' of our society." The police officer said he expected civil unrest after the vote, whichever party gained the most votes. "There will be civil unrest whoever is elected, this is France and the people speak their mind." Civil unrest possiblePolitical experts agree that the current febrile atmosphere of French politics, and antagonism between the main bodies of voters, are the ingredients for further civil unrest.

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☆ Two Teenagers Drown Off Brooklyn Beach
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-06 | by ( Victoria Kim | More About Victoria Kim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two teenagers drowned while swimming off Coney Island in Brooklyn as a thunderstorm rolled into the area Friday evening, the second such fatal episode at a New York City beach in less than a month. Two girls, ages 17 and 18, were reported missing after going into the water near Stillwell Avenue shortly after 8 p.m., according to the New York City Police Department. Both were later pronounced dead at the hospital, according to the police. The deaths, two weeks after two teenagers died swimming off the Rockaways in Queens, mark a particularly deadly start to the summer season at New York City beaches, where drownings have been a perennial problem. With more than two months remaining, the city matched last year’s total of four lives lost.

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CNN —An Israeli attack has killed at least 16 Palestinians and injured 50 others at UNRWA’s Al-Jaouni school sheltering displaced people in al-Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday. A displaced man at the school told CNN children were among the injured. “We barely found this place in the school, but even the school is not safe.”CNN video shows several injured children arriving at a nearby hospital following the attack. The Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday militants were operating in structures located in the school area. UNRWA Communication Director Juliette Touma told CNN UNRWA does not have all the information yet, adding that half of UNRWA’s facilities in Gaza have been hit since October 7.

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☆ Two Dead After Being Struck By Pickup Truck in Downtown Manhattan
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | More About Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Two people were killed and at least nine others were injured after an apparently impaired driver plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of people celebrating July 4 in a park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the authorities said. Several of the injured were transported to hospitals, two of them in critical condition, the authorities said at a news conference on Thursday night. A police spokesman confirmed by phone that one person had been taken into custody. Speaking at the news conference, Mayor Eric Adams of New York said that though investigations were preliminary, the incident did not appear to be “terrorist related.” Officers responding to the scene smelled alcohol on the driver, and the police were conducting tests to confirm, officials said. Police said that just before 9 p.m., a Ford F-150 driving eastbound at high speed down Water Street sped through a stop sign, up onto the sidewalk and into Corlears Hook Park, where a crowd of people were celebrating the holiday.

Persons: Eric Adams Organizations: Police, Ford Locations: New York, Hook

☆ New York Moves to Clean Up Times Square After a Spate of Crimes
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Maria Cramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A young woman killed after the police said a 22-year-old woman stabbed her in an unprovoked attack near the Port Authority bus terminal. A carpenter waiting for a co-worker in the bus station stabbed nine times as he sat and read. Times Square, the gaudy icon of Manhattan, and the surrounding streets have seen a string of attacks since April — sometimes in broad daylight — that have led to blaring headlines. They came just months after a winter spate of violence fed fears, inflamed by accusations from Republican politicians, that New York was sliding toward chaos and violence. But despite the conspicuous incidents, most major crimes in Times Square have actually fallen, the police said, as officers, city officials and community groups work to improve conditions.

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☆ 'We don't do God' and massive ad spends: How UK election races differ from American ones
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Holly Ellyatt | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Here are a handful of them:1) CampaignsBy the time a presidential election takes place in the United States, the electorate will have already endured months of seemingly endless electioneering — with the entire election campaign process from candidacies and the campaign trail to the actual presidential election and inauguration taking up to two years. In the U.K., the time frame between a prime minister calling a general election to the actual vote is just six weeks. It sounds simple, and usually is, unless there's a "hung parliament" in which no political party wins a majority of seats. In the U.K., political advertising on TV and radio is not allowed, so U.K. voters are subjected to the somewhat quaint "party political broadcasts" during election campaigns. 6) 'Absurd' diversionsBritish political experts note that, unlike in the U.S., where broad political debates tend to remain the key focus, U.K. election campaigns can see more minor or fringe issues dominate the short election campaign.

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☆ British Teenager’s Disappearance Spurs Speculation and Sleuthing
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-03 | by ( Isabella Kwai | Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When a young British man disappeared while vacationing on the Spanish island of Tenerife in mid-June, a familiar routine unfolded: search and rescue workers combing through the landscape, regular updates from tearful family members, a steady drumbeat of unconfirmed reports that he had been spotted. This weekend, the Spanish authorities called off their search for Jay Slater, a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from England who was visiting Tenerife, a popular vacation destination. But even after the 14-day search officially ended, conspiracies and other theories have continued to spread online. “There’s a small minority that believes and engages with these things,” said Aleksandra Cichocka, a professor of political psychology at the University of Kent. “But they can be really disturbing to the family and the whole process of the investigation.”

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CNN —Eyewitnesses have recounted scenes of chaos and confusion after a religious festival in northern India ended in tragedy when scores of people were killed in a crowd crush. At least 121 people died – almost all of them women – and 35 others were injured when overcrowding at a sermon in Mughal Garhi village in Uttar Pradesh led to the deadly crush on Tuesday. Speaking to CNN from a local hospital, a security guard named Subhash Lal said his mother had died in the crush. Ritesh Shukla/Getty ImagesPersonal belongings of victims who died in the crush are seen scattered at the venue in Uttar Pradesh. “I was told to go to the district hospital and here I found her body.”Uttar Pradesh has launched a special investigative team to probe the deadly crowd crush, the state’s chief minister announced on Wednesday.

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☆ Car Plows Into Pedestrians in South Korea, Killing Nine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | More About Choe Sang-Hun | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nine people were killed when a car crashed into pedestrians near a busy intersection in central Seoul on Monday, officials said. Four others were injured in the incident in front of city hall, but their wounds were not life-threatening, said Kim Chun-soo, a senior fire department official. The driver of the car claimed that he lost control of it when it suddenly accelerated, local news media reported. Kim Seong-hak, a public safety official at the Jung-gu district in central Seoul, said the authorities could not immediately confirm the reports, adding that the police were investigating the driver. He also said officials were investigating whether the driver was drunk or on drugs.

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☆ Ex-Moelis Banker arrested on assault charges after viral punching video
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jonathan Kaye was arrested on assault charges after a video of him punching a woman went viral. Banker Kaye resigned from Moelis last week after it said it was conducting an investigation. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementA senior banker who resigned from Moelis last week after a viral video showed him punching a woman was arrested on assault charges Monday morning. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Hurricane Beryl nears Caribbean as life-threatening Category 3 storm — marking an unusually early start to hurricane season
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Hurricane Beryl, a powerful Category 3 storm, is expected to slam into the Caribbean on Monday, endangering several island communities with life-threatening storm surge, violent winds and flash flooding. Beryl’s arrival marks an exceptionally early – and likely devastating – start to the Atlantic hurricane season. • Widespread tropical storm advisories: Tropical storm warnings are in effect for Martinique and Trinidad, the National Hurricane Center said. Less severe tropical storm watches are also in place in parts of the Dominican Republic and the southern coast of Haiti. The storm’s rapid intensification is very atypical this early into hurricane season, according to National Hurricane Center Director Mike Brennan.

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☆ Utica Residents Grill Mayor After Police Killing of 13-Year-Old Boy
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Hurubie Meko | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 100 residents of Utica, N.Y., grieving the death of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a police officer there last week, gathered at a church on Sunday afternoon to demand accountability for his killing. The boy, Nyah Mway, was walking in the city with another boy on Friday night when they were stopped by three police officers. When one officer asked to pat them down, Nyah fled, footage from officers’ body-worn cameras shows. The police said in a statement that Nyah had displayed “what appeared to be a handgun” as he ran. On Sunday, the mayor of Utica, Michael P. Galime, answered questions from residents who filled the auditorium at Tabernacle Baptist Church.

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☆ Man arrested after climbing onto roof of stadium during Euro 2024 game, police say he wanted to take ‘good photos’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A man has been arrested after he climbed onto the roof of the BVB Stadion in Dortmund during Germany’s last-16 match against Denmark at Euro 2024, police said. Social media clips show a man climbing in the rafters of the stadium dressed in black with his face covered. He was arrested at 11:44 p.m. local time, police said, after complying with police requests and was found with camera equipment in his bag. UEFA – European football’s governing body – said stadium safety and security was the “ultimate priority” for them, the German football association and tournament organizers. “UEFA would like to commend the police, stadium and local authorities for their co-operation in the incident last night in Dortmund involving an individual arrested by the police on the stadium roof,” UEFA told CNN in a statement.

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At least 18 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in a series of suicide bombings on Saturday afternoon in northeastern Nigeria, including at a wedding and a funeral, according to local officials and the police. The victims included children and pregnant women, Mr. Saidu said. Some Nigerian news outlets reported that at least 30 people had been killed. As of Sunday morning, no group had claimed responsibility for the bombings. The blasts resembled previous attacks carried out by Boko Haram, whose fighters have killed tens of thousands in Nigeria and whose aggression in the region has led to the displacement of more than two million people.

Persons: Barkindo Saidu, Haram, Saidu, Boko Haram Locations: Nigeria, Borno, Gwoza, Borno State, Nigerian

Families who lost loved ones in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, said the Thursday arrest of former school district police chief Pete Arredondo is not a “happy moment” and are calling for more indictments. Arredondo, 52, was arrested on an indictment charging him with 10 counts of abandoning/endangering a child in connection with the May 24, 2022, school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. Those 10 counts are in connection with schoolchildren who survived the shooting, but experienced delays in receiving care and protection. A second officer was also indicted on multiple similar charges, according to a parent of one of the slain children, who asked not to be identified. He said the charges were a good step, calling it “a very emotional day for me.”“I don’t think it’s enough,” he said.

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☆ Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Kashmir Hill | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. On Friday, as part of a legal settlement over his wrongful arrest, Mr. Williams got a commitment from the Detroit Police Department to do better. The city adopted new rules for police use of facial recognition technology that the American Civil Liberties Union, which represented Mr. Williams, says should be the new national standard. Mr. Williams was the first person known to be wrongfully arrested based on faulty facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies across the country use facial recognition technology to try to identify criminals whose misdeeds are caught on camera.

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☆ Serbia: Police officer shot with arrow in suspected terror attack at Israeli embassy in Serbia
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Mostafa Salem | Eve Brennan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A police officer at the Israeli Embassy in the Serbian capital Belgrade was shot in the neck with a crossbow in a suspected terror attack on Saturday, CNN affiliate N1 reported. The police officer shot the attacker who later died, according to N1. The officer has been taken to hospital and will need an operation to remove an arrow from his neck. Serbia’s Interior Minister Ivica Dacic called the incident a “terrorist attack,” saying several people believed to have been linked to the incident had been arrested. A spokesperson for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs also called the incident an “attempted terrorist attack” in a statement.

Persons: Ivica Dacic, Dacic Organizations: CNN, Embassy, Belgrade, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hamas Locations: Serbian, Islam, Israel, Europe, Gaza

☆ Shoplifters love Lego. The colorful plastic toy bricks are a gold mine for criminals
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Parija Bhatnagar | Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

I went straight to the cameras and saw we were being robbed,” Zuniga told CNN. Hayes told CNN his team works with a majority of retailers that carry Lego products as well as Legoland theme parks. “Demand is always there.”As a result, there’s not only a market for stolen Lego products but also a burgeoning counterfeit market, especially online. When reached for comment, Lego directed CNN to online resources on its website to educate consumers how to spot fake online Lego stores and fake Lego products. He bought Lego sets that were on sale at the local Target to fill up empty shelves.

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