A day after ICE agents swooped into San Francisco Immigration Court to take four people into custody, the federal government sent an unusual email to The Standard. “I have a request to ask if you would consider blurring the faces of our officers and agents,” ICE spokesperson Richard Beam wrote Wednesday. “Out of a concern for the safety of our personnel I wanted to simply ask.” Beam was referring to photos and videos The Standard published Tuesday, showing ICE agents loading a handcuffed immigrant into a van along Montgomery Street in the heart of the Financial District. Experts have called the operation at the courthouse a significant escalation of federal immigration enforcement. “While we always weigh legitimate concerns around privacy and safety, we believe that censoring images from this news event would set a harmful precedent for the media’s right to report and the public’s right to know,” managing editor Jeff Bercovici said.

Florida child welfare authorities turned over a 17-year-old foster child to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, sparking intense criticism that the action could hinder efforts to protect children in the state’s large immigrant communities. The Honduran teen was removed from his Pensacola foster home Monday morning — in handcuffs and shackles – and transferred immediately into ICE custody. The boy and his mother had crossed the southwest border into the U.S. without permission, sources familiar with the case told the Miami Herald. After being separated from his mother, who was later deported, the boy traveled from Texas to Pensacola, where he sought work. He entered foster care after he was found living in a shed with no source of food, shelter or income, records show. The boy, whose first name is Henry, also may have been a victim of labor trafficking. The Herald is not fully naming him to protect his privacy. The decision to alert immigration authorities to Henry’s status as an undocumented migrant is at odds with decades of child welfare practice in Florida – and it appears to violate a 30-year-old state Department of Children and Families rule that prohibits workers from acting upon a child’s status.

How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations

The National Post systematically rewrites wire stories to include loaded anti-Palestinian language, omit the context of occupation, and frame stories around Israeli viewpoints, a comprehensive data analysis shows. The groups Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) and The Media Bias Project of Tech for Palestine (T4P) analyzed 197 Canadian Press (CP) news stories about Palestine and compared them to the version published by the National Post. The data gathered drew from articles published between October 9, 2023, to September 18, 2024. Canadian Press journalists were often kept as the author by the National Post even after the paper made significant editorial changes to their filed stories. The investigation noted at least one case in which a CP journalist’s name was quietly dropped following a formal complaint about the article with the National Post in which the author was CC’d. When journalist names are dropped, the Post still keeps “The Canadian Press” as the author name, despite the changes to article content.

“I never thought for one moment that I’d actually have to be fearful of law enforcement during a public protest," said one photojournalist who was apparently just born yesterday.

In a bid to confront mounting food insecurity, the City of Chicago announced last year that it was exploring the creation of a municipally-owned grocery store, an unprecedented move for a major American city. The proposal was a response to the persistent exodus of private grocers from the city’s South and West Sides, where decades of disinvestment have left entire neighborhoods with few reliable options for fresh, affordable food. But by February, the city shifted course. Citing difficulties in securing a qualified operator, a requirement for state funding, officials under Mayor Brandon Johnson revealed that the city will instead pursue a public market. The new plan envisions a space that provides basic groceries while supporting local farmers and small vendors. For now, it is grassroots, community-driven markets that are filling the void. Often under-resourced but deeply embedded in their neighborhoods, these efforts have proved to be among the most nimble and enduring responses to a crisis that large grocery chains have repeatedly failed to address.

Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson, who created some of rock's most enduring songs such as "Good Vibrations" and "God Only Knows" in a career that was marked by a decades-long battle between his musical genius, drug abuse and mental health issues, has died at the age of 82.

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

It’s as simple as love.

A Silicon Valley unicorn with a reputation for fleecing workers abroad is behind the AI startup now seemingly doing the same in the U.S.

Under cloak of darkness, the state Senate helped more than 130,000 reckless drivers avoid accountability.

The fact that you are never quite as safe as you should be is one of the facts of contemporary American life, although the nature of that hazard varies from one American to the next. ...

The network is parting ways with its veteran correspondent two days after he posted a missive on X calling the president and his deputy chief of staff “world-class haters.”

We're all laughing at you.

LOS ANGELES, June 10 (Reuters) - Hundreds of U.S. Marines arrived in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday under orders from President Donald Trump, who has also activated 4,000 National Guard troops to quell protests in the city despite objections from California Governor Gavin Newsom that the deployments are politically motivated. The city has seen days of public protests since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday. State officials said Trump's response was an extreme overreaction to mostly peaceful demonstrations

Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.

The protesters are being called unspeakably violent by the Trump administration. I mostly saw clergy sit-ins and Tejano bands.

Emperor penguin populations in Antartica may be declining faster than the most pessimistic predictions, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery.

Flashing your Costco card might get you a $1.50 hot dog – but try it at airport security and you might just miss your flight. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued a reminder for travellers that Costco membership cards are not acceptable as REAL IDs at U.S. airport security checkpoints. In a Facebook post, laced with humour, the TSA said, “We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not.”

Immigrants seeking legal help online to protect themselves from Trump’s deportation plans are increasingly falling prey to costly scams.