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☆ Exclusive-Mystery X9 helicopter takes shape as potential successor to Airbus H145
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Tim Hepher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

PARIS (Reuters) - After a decade in the shadows, one of Europe’s mystery aerospace projects - the X9 helicopter - is taking shape as a potential future successor to Airbus Helicopters’ H145 light-twin chopper, with plans for a demonstrator underway, industry sources said. FILE PHOTO: An Airbus H145 French Securite Civile rescue helicopter takes off past Canadair aircrafts during the presentation of the 2023 plan to fight against wildfires, at Nimes-Garons airbase, France, April 25, 2023. A Berlin filing by Airbus Helicopters’ German subsidiary in 2020 noted its board had been briefed on the X9 and unspecified “further steps”. Any future H145 successor would regenerate the German side of Airbus Helicopters, formed from a 1992 merger between divisions of France’s Aerospatiale and MBB of Germany to counter U.S. rivals led by Bell, Boeing and Sikorsky. Those barriers are gradually fading as Airbus Helicopters adopts a system under which specialised sites pre-assemble major sections, which then converge on one site for final assembly.

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☆ Exclusive: Mystery X9 helicopter takes shape as potential successor to Airbus H145
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Tim Hepher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

PARIS, June 18 (Reuters) - After a decade in the shadows, one of Europe's mystery aerospace projects - the X9 helicopter - is taking shape as a potential future successor to Airbus Helicopters' H145 light-twin chopper, with plans for a demonstrator underway, industry sources said. A Berlin filing by Airbus Helicopters' German subsidiary in 2020 noted its board had been briefed on the X9 and unspecified "further steps". The same unit later said it would focus on ensuring "the future viability of civil helicopters" at Donauwoerth, Germany. Any future H145 successor would regenerate the German side of Airbus Helicopters, formed from a 1992 merger between divisions of France's Aerospatiale and MBB of Germany to counter U.S. rivals led by Bell, Boeing and Sikorsky. Those barriers are gradually fading as Airbus Helicopters adopts a system under which specialised sites pre-assemble major sections, which then converge on one site for final assembly.

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☆ Black Americans are getting support for reparations from other multiracial groups
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Stephanie Elam | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Mass is part of a growing wave of multiracial support for Black American reparations – with many Jewish and Japanese organizations among them. It’s just human beings.”Amy Iwasaki Mass reads her 1981 testimony in favor of redress for Japanese Americans held in internment camps during World War II. “But I do think Japanese Americans as a group do understand what it’s like to be excluded on the basis of race.”Acknowledging the cost of historyPassage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 gave affected Japanese Americans the $20,000 payment and a formal letter of apology from President Ronald Reagan. Tamaki and Simon agree that arguments against reparations fail to acknowledge the cost of being part of a society. That’s called being a citizen.”Tamaki agrees that the work to repair the damage done to Black Americans is expensive and arduous, but it must begin at some point.

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☆ Consent Decrees Force Changes to Policing. But Do Reforms Last?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Shaila Dewan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“It’s kind of like the old saying, when everything’s a priority, nothing’s a priority,” said Jason Johnson, who was a deputy police chief in Baltimore overseeing compliance with the city’s consent decree. Even so, believers point out that consent decrees may be far cheaper than unconstitutional policing. “What we’re talking about is broad institutional reform,” said David Douglass, the deputy monitor of the New Orleans consent decree and founder of a nonprofit group called Effective Law Enforcement for All, which helps communities develop voluntary reforms. In Baltimore, Michael Harrison, who was brought in as commissioner because of his success in implementing New Orleans’s police overhaul, just resigned, but the consent decree remains. Experience running a department with a consent decree has become a plum line on a chief’s résumé.

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Juneteenth became an official federal holiday two years ago, but it was an unofficial holiday for many Black people before then. We should say, "We are a nation of Indigenous peoples, enslaved peoples, and immigrants." Since President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law two years ago, Juneteenth is now a federally recognized holiday. Some schools, such as Georgetown, have gone further than acknowledgement by renaming buildings that glorify slave owners and offering full scholarships to descendants of enslaved peoples. The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act is but another step towards inclusion of all peoples who made America: "We are a nation of Native peoples, enslaved peoples, and immigrants."

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☆ Scathing Report on Police Leaves Minneapolis Reeling 3 Years After Floyd Murder
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Ernesto Londoño | Dan Simmons | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The wounds of Minneapolis are far from healed. Veterans of the city’s Police Department, which has lost more than 300 officers, say they are running on fumes, weary from patrolling under a cloud of suspicion. Three years after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, a Department of Justice report released on Friday concluded that the city’s Police Department was plagued by unlawful conduct, discrimination and mismanagement. In some ways, it was meant as an answer to the death of Mr. Floyd and to years of complaints about policing in this city of 425,000. But the devastating report seemed to bring little closure in Minneapolis, where many remain traumatized and riven by mistrust.

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☆ SEC enforcement chief rejects criticism of crypto crackdown
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Chris Prentice | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The regulator's heightened scrutiny of crypto firms comes in response to the industry's failure to comply with the agency's regulations, SEC enforcement director Gurbir Grewal said at a Rutgers University and Lowenstein Sandler LLP event in New York. "We have worked thoughtfully and incrementally in this space," Grewal said on Friday. The SEC began targeting initial coin sales as unregistered securities offerings, but has increasingly focused on crypto firms acting as unregistered exchanges and broker-dealers. The SEC last week sued Binance and Coinbase, two of the world's largest crypto exchanges, for allegedly breaking its rules. Coinbase has said the agency hardened its stance and became less willing to work with crypto firms in the wake of the FTX scandal in late 2022.

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☆ Read the Justice Department’s Report on the Minneapolis Police Department
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The woman asked to speak to a supervisor, but the officer refused to transfer her or take her contact information. The woman told us the officer "sure felt like he was above any repercussions," and he was. For example, in 2015, MPD officers stopped a car carrying four Somali-American teens. Later, when one of the teens told the officer, "[Y]ou're a racist, bro," the officer responded: "Yep, and I'm proud of it." It was not until weeks later, when cellphone footage went viral, that MPD opened an investigation, eventually firing the officer.

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☆ A Report Called for an Overhaul of Minneapolis Police
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

George Floyd died more than three years ago at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis, igniting nationwide protests against discriminatory policing and spurring a federal investigation into the city’s police force. Today, the Justice Department released its findings in a scathing 89-page report that found systemic abuses by the police in Minneapolis. The report laid out repeated instances of unlawful discrimination by police officers against Black and Native American people. “The patterns and practices we observed made what happened to George Floyd possible,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said. Among the several examples of discrimination contained in the report was an episode in which an officer said his goal was to wipe the Black Lives Matter movement “off the face of the earth.”

Persons: George Floyd, General Merrick Garland Organizations: Justice Department, Black Locations: Minneapolis

☆ What happened to efforts to ‘defund the police’ in Minneapolis and elsewhere?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Ernesto Londoño | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Three years after “defund the police” became a rallying cry that emerged in the fury over the police killing of George Floyd, efforts to do away with conventional policing have largely fizzled in Minneapolis and beyond. The movement faltered in Minneapolis after activists failed to build broad support for a goal that lacked a clear definition and an alternative that residents could agree on. When crime surged, the idea lost steam and Republicans seized on it as evidence that Democrats were being recklessly soft on crime. In 2021, critics of the Minneapolis Police Department put forward a proposal to disband the police department and establish a new public safety agency with a ballot initiative that would have significantly altered the city’s approach to public safety. As the measure was being debated, police officers were resigning and retiring in large numbers amid sinking morale and, at the same time, Minneapolis was seeing a surge in crime.

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Crowd: “No justice, no peace.” Floyd’s death triggered major protests in Minneapolis, and sparked rage across the country. Officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng step out of the car and approach the blue S.U.V. According to the criminal complaints filed against the officers, Floyd says he is claustrophobic and refuses to enter the police car. Her footage shows that despite calls for medical help, Chauvin keeps Floyd pinned down for another seven minutes. Chauvin kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, according to our review of the video evidence.

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☆ What Has Happened in Minneapolis Since George Floyd Was Murdered
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Adeel Hassan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

The man was 46-year-old George Floyd, a bouncer originally from Houston who had lost his job at a restaurant when the coronavirus pandemic hit. According to the criminal complaints filed against the officers, Floyd says he is claustrophobic and refuses to enter the police car. Her footage shows that despite calls for medical help, Chauvin keeps Floyd pinned down for another seven minutes. Officer: “Get back on the sidewalk.” According to the complaints against the officers, Lane asks him twice if they should roll Floyd onto his side. The widely circulated arrest videos don’t paint the entire picture of what happened to George Floyd.

The report is expected to be released at a news conference with Attorney General Merrick Garland, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta and city officials. The expected announcement was previously reported by Bloomberg Law and KSTP-TV in Minnesota. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has negotiated consent decrees in the past to enforce policing overhauls in Baltimore, Cleveland and Ferguson, Mo., among other cities, after similar investigations. The murder of Mr. Floyd, a Black man, by Officer Derek Chauvin in May 2020 touched off protests and civil unrest across the country and led to calls to fundamentally rethink or defund policing. Mr. Floyd’s death, video of which circulated widely online, brought condemnations from across the political spectrum and criminal convictions for the police officers who were involved, a relatively rare occurrence.

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☆ 10 Things in Tech: Google's WFH crackdown, mass layoffs are creating new founders, and Jack Dorsey's Apple Vision Pro worry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Tech layoffs are fueling an influx of new founders building climate, health, and fintech startups. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said he liked to test AI using a poetry prompt to see if it had the "subtlety" to translate "deep meaning." Twilio's Joyce Kim said "predictive AI is going to be a core part of every tool that they use." The European parliament has voted to take steps to regulate AI technology such as ChatGPT, with its parliament backing a ban on the technology for biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, and predictive policing. Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the most common mistake he sees young people make is overplanning.

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☆ The AI act: Europe is leading the race to regulate artificial intelligence. Here's what you need to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“We have made history today,” Brando Benifei, a member of the European Parliament working on the EU AI Act, told journalists. Detailed summaries of the copyrighted data used to train these AI systems would also have to be published. AI systems with minimal or no risk, such as spam filters, fall largely outside of the rules. Fines under the AI Act serve as a “war cry from the legislators to say, ‘take this seriously’,” Muldoon said. The Act also requires EU member states to establish at least one regulatory “sandbox” to test AI systems before they are deployed.

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☆ Europe plans to put guardrails on ChatGPT and other AI apps
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Chris Johnston | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The European Union has taken the first steps towards regulating artificial intelligence, with its parliament backing a ban on the technology for biometric surveillance, emotion recognition, and predictive policing. Europe will also seek to require systems such as ChatGPT to indicate that content was generated by AI. The rules "aim to promote the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy AI and protect the health, safety, fundamental rights and democracy from its harmful effects," per a press release from the European Parliament on Wednesday. Talks will now begin with EU member states on the precise wording of the legislation. The rules aim to ensure that AI developed and used in Europe complied with EU rights and values including human oversight, safety, privacy, transparency, non-discrimination, and social and environmental wellbeing.

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Barnaby Webber and Grace Kumar, both 19-year-old students at the University of Nottingham, and Ian Coates, 65, a school janitor, were fatally stabbed. Coates was later found dead from knife injuries on Magdala Road by a member of the public, police said. Police responded to a "major incident" in Nottingham city center early Tuesday morning. “Barnaby Philip John Webber was a beautiful, brilliant, bright young man, with everything in life to look forward to,” his family said. “At 19 he was just at the start of his journey into adulthood and was developing into a wonderful young man,” the family added.

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☆ N.Y.P.D. Commissioner Keechant Sewell to Resign
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Maria Cramer | Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Keechant Sewell, commissioner of the New York Police Department, said Monday she would resign after less than 18 months, giving no reason for the abrupt end to a tenure during which she won over many in the rank and file even as she jockeyed for position against other appointees and top officers. Ms. Sewell, who was appointed to her position by Mayor Eric Adams and started in 2022, was the first woman to head the nation’s largest police force. He had promised as a candidate to name a woman to lead the public safety agency where he was an officer for 22 years, giving her the power to rethink policing after bitter protests against police brutality and racism. The mayor said in a statement on Monday that Ms. Sewell had worked tirelessly and that “New Yorkers owe her a debt of gratitude.” But Ms. Sewell, in an email to the department announcing her resignation, did not mention the mayor at all. She did not say when she would be leaving, and the mayor did not say when a replacement would be chosen.

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☆ Why the Battle for Supremacy in Asia Begins With China’s Coast Guard
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Damien Cave | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But they are not Chinese Navy vessels. Their hulls are painted white, with “China Coast Guard” in block letters on the sides. In just a decade, China has amassed the world’s largest coast guard fleet, and it is like no other. More militarized, more aggressive in international disputes and less concerned with the usual missions of policing smugglers or search and rescue, the Chinese force has upended 200 years of global coast guard tradition. But with coast guard standoffs quietly escalating around the region, officials and analysts increasingly worry about a rising threat: an accident or violent skirmish anywhere in the vast area that China’s Coast Guard roams, which could spark a broader conflict, even a war between major powers.

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☆ Georgia slot machine company enters bankruptcy to cut $500 million debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Dietrich Knauth | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Georgia law places strict limits on slot machines, prohibiting cash winnings, and preventing locations like gas stations and convenience stores from having more than nine slot machines or deriving more than 50% of their revenue from slot machines, according to the company. Headquartered in Norcross, Georgia, Lucky Bucks operates in 345 locations throughout Georgia with approximately 2,300 slot machines. Before filing for bankruptcy, Lucky Bucks had lobbied for a Georgia law that would have protected slot machine operators from “predatory” competition. The proposed bill, which was not passed by Georgia’s legislature, would have prevented a new slot machine from being installed in the nine months following the removal of a different company's slot machine. The case is Lucky Bucks Inc, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, No.

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☆ Norway police could have prevented last year's gay bar shooting, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] People embrace near the police line following a shooting at the London Pub, a popular gay bar and nightclub, in central Oslo, Norway June 25, 2022. PST also failed to share the intelligence it had about the shooter with police officers in charge of the surveillance of radicalised individuals. "This is a devastating report," Oslo's governing mayor, Raymond Johansen, told public broadcaster NRK. PST apologised to the victims, their relatives and the nation immediately after the report. The LGBTQ+ community is preparing for the one-year anniversary of the attack on June 25 and the annual Pride celebration on June 23-July 1.

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☆ Kenya's parliament approves appointment of new central banker
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Duncan Miriri | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

He will replace Patrick Njoroge, who is retiring after serving two terms as the central bank governor since 2015. In a voice vote, lawmakers adopted the report of the National Assembly's finance committee, which urged the house to back his appointment after vetting his suitability for the post. His predecessor, Njoroge, has maintained stable prices for most of his eight years at the helm. But the World Bank expects growth to edge up to 5.0% in 2023, underpinned by a recovery in agriculture. Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Writing by Alexander Winning; Editing by David EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ Australia security pact 'stigma' must be removed -Vanuatu PM
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Kirsty Needham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, June 7 (Reuters) - Vanuatu Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau said his government "must remove the stigma" from a security agreement with Australia and work toward having it ratified by parliament, local media reported on Wednesday. The Pacific Islands nation signed a security treaty covering disaster relief, defence, policing and cyber security with Australia in December, but during a visit by Australia Defence Minister Richard Marles on Tuesday, Vanuatu officials said the document was still being examined. Some Vanuatu politicians who favour ties with China, a major infrastructure lender, have expressed concern over the deal. "We must remove the stigma that the agreement is one-sided and does not reflect Vanuatu’s sovereignty," Kalsakau said in a speech, the Vanuatu Daily Post reported on Wednesday. China's navy sent a ship with humanitarian supplies to Vanuatu in April after two cyclones hit in March.

Persons: Ishmael Kalsakau, Richard Marles, Kalsakau, Kirsty Needham, Editng, Gerry Doyle Organizations: SYDNEY, Vanuatu, Australia, Australia Defence, Vanuatu Daily Post, Australian Defence Force, HMAS Canberra, Thomson Locations: Australia, China, Vanuatu, Washington, United States, Papua New Guinea

☆ Former Florida Deputy on Trial for Not Confronting Parkland Gunman
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Jane Musgrave | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Opening statements are expected to begin Wednesday in the trial of the school resource officer on duty at the time of the attack, Scot Peterson, who faces 10 charges, including seven counts of child neglect, for not confronting the gunman. A conviction of a member of law enforcement for inaction during a mass shooting could have sweeping repercussions for policing in Florida and beyond, legal experts say. Mr. Peterson faces a decades-long prison sentence on the accusation that he failed in his role as a caregiver for the students. Mr. Peterson was the first officer on the scene, and by his own account he did not rush into Building 1200 at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, where the gunman killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. He instead took cover in the stairway of an adjacent building, and has said he was unsure where the shots were coming from and feared that a sniper was firing from outside.

Persons: Scot Peterson, Peterson, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Organizations: Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School Locations: Parkland, Fla, Florida

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