A statement from the university said they are 'saddened' for patients who are trying to have babies

Agents are said to have visited at least one senior member of the group, sources tell VICE News.

Ksenia Khavana faces up to 20 years in prison for treason amid Kremlin crackdown

The proliferation of generative AI chatbots on extremist platforms could lead to increased radicalization, experts warn.

We thought we knew how Voyager would end. The power would gradually, inevitably, run down. The instruments would shut off, one by one. The signal would get fainter. Eventually either the last instrument would fail for lack of power, or the signal would be lost. We didn’t expect that it would go mad.

ChatGPT appears to have broken, providing users with rambling responses of gibberish. In recent hours, the artificial intelligence tool appears to be answering queries with long and nonsensical messages, talking Spanglish without prompting – as well as worrying users, by suggesting that it is in the room with them.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi claims no U.S. weapons have been used to carry our Israeli atrocities in Gaza since October 7, but the evidence proves otherwise.

The leaked documents supposedly discuss spyware developed by I-Soon, a Chinese infosec company, that’s targeting social media platforms, telecommunications companies, and other organizations worldwide. Researchers suspect the operations are orchestrated by the Chinese government. Unknown individuals allegedly leaked a trove of Chinese government documents on GitHub. The documents reveal how China conducts offensive cyber operations with spyware developed by I-Soon, Taiwanese threat intelligence researcher Azaka Sekai claims. While several researchers have analyzed the supposedly leaked documents, no official confirmation of their veracity exists as of the writing of this article. We have reached out to I-Soon but did not receive a reply before publishing. According to Azaka Sekai, the documents provide an intimate insight into the inner workings of China’s state-sponsored cyber activities. For example, some offensive software has specific features that supposedly allow “obtaining the user’s Twitter email and phone number, real-time monitoring, publishing tweets on their behalf, reading DMs.”

Advocacy group Disability Rights Tennessee has filed a federal lawsuit against three Middle Tennessee youth detention centers, seeking records related to the treatment of children at the facilities, including the use of pepper spray. The complaint names Columbia’s Middle Tennessee Juvenile Detention Center and Waynesboro’s Wayne Halfway House and Hollis Residential Treatment Center. Jason Crews, who serves as the executive director for both MTJDC and Wayne Halfway House, was also named in the suit. Wayne Halfway House owns and operates Hollis Residential Treatment Center and operates MTJDC. A representative for the defendants declined to comment. MTJDC is a privately owned, state-funded facility that takes in minors by court order or referral from the Department of Children’s Services or a county court system. Wayne Halfway House and Hollis Residential Treatment Center aim to “provide quality residential treatment” for juvenile residents so that they may “permanently exit the state custody system and go on to lead successful, independent adult lives.” In recent years, MTJDC has faced scrutiny for its solitary confinement conditions.

The state Supreme Court split, 4-2, Friday on allowing Justice Phil Berger Jr. to take part in next week’s hearing in the 30-year-long education funding dispute commonly known as Leandro. That means all seven justices will take part in oral arguments on Feb. 22. Plaintiffs in the case sought Berger’s recusal because his father is an intervening party in the case as the top officer in the state Senate. The younger Berger rejected a similar recusal request in the Leandro case in August 2022. “Because it offers no new grounds for recusal, plaintiffs’ pending recusal motion amounts to an impermissible challenge to Justice Berger’s denial of their first motion,” according to the new court order signed by Justice Trey Allen. “Under the Recusal Procedure Order, when a Justice rules on a recusal or disqualification motion, ‘[t]hat determination shall be final.’ The motion is therefore dismissed.” The four-page order prompted a nine-page dissent from Justice Allison Riggs, the court’s other Democrat. She focused on the contrast between Berger’s and Earls’ recent responses to recusal requests. “In this instance, Justice Berger has opted for the alternative approach, referring the motion to the entire Court because ‘members of this Court should strive to fortify public trust, and unilateral action in this matter could undermine public confidence.’ In my view, this unnecessary commentary itself undermines public confidence in the Court,” Riggs wrote.

As the high court deliberates, policymakers are preparing for the possibility that they might solve a problem they created in the most punitive way. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, advocates and policy analysts have warned of a homelessness “tsunami.” It’s the worst-case scenario where the combination of lost income, backlogs of owed rent, and a lack of local government foresight contribute to a surge of people losing housing and ending up on the street. Well, it has arrived—and it’s poised to get much worse as the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to make homelessness a de facto crime. This past month, many cities and counties conducted their annual point-in-time homelessness counts. The results of January’s counts won’t be known for several more months, but they’re likely to be dire. The end-of-2023 results found that approximately 653,000 people were experiencing homelessness. That’s up more than 70,000 over 2022, or a 12 percent increase. In the 12 months since that data was collected, those numbers have likely gone up. But the raw numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. As more people end up experiencing homelessness, they’re also facing increasingly punitive and reactionary responses from local governments and their neighbors. Such policies could become legally codified in short order, with the high court having agreed to hear arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson.

In California’s struggle to create safer cities, there are those who blame crime on liberal policies aimed at reducing mass incarceration and the imaginary fallout from a police defunding movement that never happened. Robust law enforcement, they claim, is the key to improving public safety. A scathing new study argues this is not true — and hasn’t been for decades. The study comes from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice and examines crime clearance rates — a key indicator of how well police are doing their jobs — for California between 1990 and 2022. During the past three decades, the percentage of reported violent and property crimes solved by police through an arrest dropped a whopping 41%. During the same three decades, the amount California taxpayers spend to fund law enforcement has risen by a staggering 52%. The numbers only get more concerning from here. The report’s author and senior researcher at CJCJ, Mike Males, told me that over the last 30 years, the number of reported crimes to police has plunged about 50%, so it’s not like police are underperforming because they’re getting swamped in crime reports. Yet, in San Francisco and Alameda County, home to some of the state’s loudest calls for more cops and more police funding, police clearance rates are abysmal. San Francisco’s 6.7% clearance rate, and Alameda County’s 5.8% — which includes the Oakland Police Department’s 1.5% clearance rate — make them some of the worst-performing jurisdictions in California, according to the study.

Forget private developers—cities and states could just build their own housing to solve the crisis. In New York, now there’s a bill to do it.

Lough Neagh’s flies were seen as a nuisance. Now their sudden disappearance is a startling omen for a lake that supplies 40% of Northern Ireland’s water

A new legal interpretation may mean that the Dallas Community Police Oversight Board can't investigate police complaints until after a police internal affairs review.

But recent US sanctions against violent West Bank settlers have put them — and their connections to America — back on the agenda

Raw Story spent four months investigating the 2119 Blood and Soil Crew, a nationwide network of teenage Nazis. The investigation revealed that Fowler now ranks among the leaders of the network. In recent months, 2119 members have waged a campaign of targeted terror aimed at Jews, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people and leftists. Their targets include Florida, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Texas and California. In mid-November, 2119’s official Telegram channel suggested the group had expanded to 21 states. The 2119 gang’s rise as a clandestine network of teenagers who promote and carry out acts of antisemitic and racist violence hasn’t been organic. The group has undertaken a concerted marketing strategy of recruiting children by appealing to their interests, such as online gaming and skateboarding.

You have to have a heart of stone to read this without laughing.

Clara Barbour, 82, died in her Jackson home when it exploded on Jan. 24. Another house exploded three days later. A federal investigation is underway.

Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments. Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not because he was causing trouble, but simply because he refused to work. He didn’t see the point given he was paid 13 cents an hour and figured his time could be better spent learning physics. Before Arrington was incarcerated in 1989, he was studying to get his aircraft mechanic license. But within weeks of returning home from the U.S. Air Force, at 22 years old, he was arrested and ultimately sentenced to life in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. In 2019, he received clemency from Governor Jared Polis and was released after three decades behind bars. “I was actually 30 years a slave,” Arrington, who is Black, told a crowd of people gathered in one of Colorado’s oldest Black churches on Juneteenth, the federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. “So, this is deeply personal to me.”