UC Berkeley intends to re-fence People’s Park with double-stacked cargo containers and barbed wire, according to a planning document obtained by The Daily Californian.

Environmentalists were heartened by the agency’s move after the chemical burned in a train derailment in February in East Palestine, Ohio. The Vinyl Institute expressed confidence that the review would show “the production of vinyl chloride and use of PVC products are safe.”

At least 103 people were killed Wednesday and 141 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman after twin blasts near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani, in what officials called a terror attack, according to state media.

Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest.

Here’s how to turn off “automated content recognition,” the Shazam-like software on smart TVs that tracks what you’re watching

A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of millions of people who thought they were doing their browsing privately. US district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, put a scheduled trial in the proposed class action, which was due to begin in February, on hold on Thursday after lawyers for Google and for consumers said they had reached the preliminary settlement. The lawsuit had sought at least $5bn. Settlement terms were not disclosed, but the lawyers said they have agreed to a binding term sheet through mediation, and expected to present a formal settlement for court approval by 24 February 2024. Neither Google nor lawyers for the plaintiff consumers immediately responded to requests for comment. The plaintiffs alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit track their activity even when they set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode.

Japan Airlines said all 367 passengers and 12 crew members had safely, evacuated the jet. But five crew members on a Japanese Coast Guard plane that collided with it were killed.

Authorities said they don’t believe the incident is linked to previous threats made to state Supreme Court justices.

Community leaders are also trying to educate a new generation about how the animal also has important implications for the future of the Prairies.

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How a simple rice dish became a Tamil symbol of resistance in Sri Lanka

Internal Pentagon efforts to track military extremism are hamstrung by a lack of unified policies, even as the threat continues. More than a year and a half after it was due, the Department of Defense finally released its report examining extremism within the ranks of the armed forces. And although there is “no evidence” that violent extremism is “disproportionate” in the military compared to the wider American populace, it remains an issue with active-duty troops and veterans. However even after extensive study, there is still confusion and unclear policies throughout the military when it comes to finding and dealing with extremism. The report, commissioned by the Pentagon and conducted by the think tank the Institute for Defense Analysis, found that the military needs to have a comprehensive change in its culture to both better identify current extremists and to prevent troops and DoD civilian employees from becoming radicalized. The IDA’s review found no evidence “that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate to the number of violent extremists in the United States as a whole, although there is some indication that the rate of participation by former service members is slightly higher and may be growing. IDA also found no evidence of violent extremist behavior by DOD civilians.” Titled ”Prohibited Extremist Activities In the U.S. Department of Defense,” the report noted that despite there not being a disproportionate amount of extremism within the military, there is a potentially growing rate of veterans participating in extremism groups or activities. Those include participation in what it outlined as the four main types of extremist views: left- and right-wing extremism, single-issue extremism and politico-religious extremism. The Institute for Defense Analysis was supposed to finish its report by June 2022 but still had not completed it by summer 2023, according to reports by CNN. The 262-page report was only released this week, in the time between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve.

Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Donald Wildmon, the founder of the American Family Association, a conservative Christian advocacy group, has died, the organization announced Thursday. The 85-year-old Mississippi native died on Thursday from complications related to Lewy body dementia, an obituary published by WTVA-TV said. Wildmon died in Tupelo, Mississippi, the city where the American Family Association is based. The obituary referred to Wildmon as “one of the legendary leaders of American conservatism.” “His impressive legacy of Christian ministry will live on for many years to come,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said on X, formerly known as Twitter. Wildmon founded the AFA, first known as the National Federation for Decency, in 1977 after working as a pastor for the United Methodist Church. Since its inception, the conservative advocacy group has launched campaigns and boycotts to pressure corporations to avoid supporting causes the group opposed, such as LGBT anti-discrimination measures. In 1991, Wildmon launched American Family Radio, which set up radio stations across the U.S. to spread the AFA’s message. Wildmon led the AFA for 33 years, the obituary said. He stepped down in 2010, and his son, Tim Wildmon, now leads the organization.

The driver of the SUV involved in the deadly crash outside the Kodak Center on New Year's Day has died. Rochester police clarified Tuesday morning that the suspect, Michael Avery, 35, of Syracuse, had rented the SUV from the Rochester airport Friday afternoon. ABC News previously reported he had rented the SUV from the Syracuse airport. Police said Avery is believed to have traveled to the Rochester area Wednesday, checking into the WoodSpring Suites in Greece. He reportedly drove his own vehicle to the airport two days later before renting the SUV. Police said Avery "made at least a half dozen purchases of gasoline and gas containers" Saturday at stores in Monroe and Ontario counties. They located at least a dozen gasoline canisters in and around the SUV following the crash, which happened around 12:50 a.m. Monday after a concert at the Kodak Center. Avery was driving the SUV on West Ridge Road as the concert was letting out, according to police, when he sped up, crossed into oncoming traffic and appeared to be intentionally driving toward a pedestrian crossing. The SUV struck an Uber vehicle that was pulling out of a parking lot, killing two rear-seat passengers. Several pedestrians were also injured. Police said the total number of injuries is now up to nine.

Video on social media appeared to show a man lunge at Lee and hit him with something in the neck as Lee was speaking to a crowd of reporters.

“Our study shows that markers of brain injury are present in the blood months after COVID-19, and particularly in those who have had a COVID-19-induced brain complication (e.g. inflammation, or stroke), despite resolution of the inflammatory response in the blood," Professor Benedict Michael, principal investigator and director of the University of Liverpool’s Infection Neuroscience Laboratory and co-author of the study, said in a statement. "This suggests the possibility of ongoing inflammation and injury inside the brain itself which may not be detected by blood tests for inflammation."

The driver, identified by San Pablo police as Dene Blakely, 39, allegedly exchanged heated words with the victim before intentionally striking the pedestrian with her vehicle. Blakely believed the woman was “someone who had previously stolen a package from her residence, and confronted the victim as she walked in the 1100 block of Broadway Avenue,” police said. According to a LinkedIn profile that matches Blakely’s name and photo, she previously worked as a processing clerk for the U.S. Postal Service and was briefly an office assistant for the Oakland Police Department. Her LinkedIn lists her as “unemployed” for the last five years.

“It’s not often in my career when scientists have really been gobsmacked by what they’re seeing, but people have really been alarmed. It caught them on the hop,” he says. “We knew that substantial change was coming down the pipeline, but we have seen processes that we thought might play out in the middle of the century playing out much sooner.”