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US journalist sentenced to 2 years in federal prison

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WASHINGTON (AP) — An American journalist has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for acting as an agent of a foreign government within the United States, the U.S. Justice Department said. Thomas Weir Pauken II, 51, pleaded guilty earlier this year and is not planning to appeal, according to his defense lawyer, Charles Burnham. Pauken also was sentenced to 36 months of supervised release with no overseas travel, the department said in a news release on Tuesday. He was arrested in February. The case is the latest in a series of federal prosecutions involving people accused ...

An issue where Shapiro and Garrity agree: Ban Flock cameras

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(The Center Square) – At least one issue unites both candidates for governor: regulating Flock cameras and other automated license plate reading systems, or ALPRs. “Flock cameras are an intrusive invasion of privacy and they should be banned,” said State Treasurer Stacy Garrity in a statement on Tuesday. The GOP gubernatorial candidate’s announcement, first reported by the Washington Examiner on Monday, comes a few days after Gov. Josh Shapiro made his position on the technology clear. “I would welcome bipartisan legislation to ban these across the state,” Shapiro said ...

Scams in the US are at a record high

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When Simon's wife of 43 years passed away, it felt a bit like he'd died too. In his overwhelming grief, Simon sought companionship online, like so many other lonely widows and widowers. Almost immediately he met Emily. But over the next few months, Emily, who Simon realized too late was a fake, stole $800,000 from him. And that was just the beginning. Simon was stuck paying back $185,000 he had borrowed, and tens of thousands of dollars in additional taxes on money he had withdrawn and lost. He tried to report the crime to his local police and the FBI, he said, but nothing came of it. ...

Judge orders changes to Google's digital ads business

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Google to retool the system powering its monopoly in digital advertising, sparing the company from a wrenching breakup sought by the U.S. government. The initial two-page decision by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Virginia marks the second time in a year that Google has received a reprieve from a Justice Department proposal to dismantle its internet empire. Meanwhile, what courts have described as the company's anti-competitive practices have enriched Google's corporate parent, Alphabet Inc., which has a market value of $4.11 trillion. The ...

NYC bans AI for students through 8th grade

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NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's public schools will temporarily ban elementary and middle school students from using artificial intelligence tools during the upcoming school year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday. The one-year moratorium — part of a broader assessment of how children in the nation's largest school system interact with the technology — will apply to "all software that uses student-facing generative AI" for students through eighth grade, the mayor's office said. It described the policy as the most expansive prohibition in the country. At the same time, ...

Deadlocked jury in Lindsay Clancy trial goes without a verdict

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Wednesday following a fifth day of deliberations and twice saying they can't agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The jury will return again Thursday morning. The judge told them to keep deliberating Wednesday when they said for a second straight day that they were at an impasse — a sign there's a growing chance of a hung jury and the trial ending without a resolution. Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, doesn't ...