Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland on Saturday, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city. Outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, federal officers pushed crowds of protesters hundreds of yards down city streets and fired tear gas, …
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They’re not going to check your carry-on. American Airlines is removing metal bag sizers at its boarding gates across the US this coming Monday, with fliers no longer required to squeeze their suitcases inside the contraption to make sure it meets size requirements. The news was first reported by View From The Wing, which obtained an internal memo sent to …
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Keep up with LAist. If you’re enjoying this article, you’ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. The Long Beach City Council this summer passed a first-in-the-nation ordinance that puts new rules in place for check-out lanes in certain stores. Proponents …
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A judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt its mobilization of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to protect the ICE building in Portland and its officers amid nightly protests. U.S. Department of Justice lawyers have vowed to immediately appeal the ruling and ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to put a hold on the judge’s order. …
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BOSTON — BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth federal court since …
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Taylor Swift‘s Life of a Showgirl special theatrical event is rocking at the domestic box office, where it’s headed for a first-place finish with a weekend haul of at least $28 million to $30 million from 3,702 theaters, according to estimates from Swift’s team and partner AMC Theatres. Rival distributors, however, have it earning north of $35 million. Whatever the …
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OpenAI is taking steps to walk back the flood of Hollywood intellectual property that has dominated its new AI video app Sora. Late Friday night, OpenAI Sam Altman posted an update to his blog explaining the changes, which appear to be in response to concerns from entertainment companies and other rightsholders about how their IP or likenesses is being used …
Read More »BOSTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for the president’s birthright order. A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the fifth federal court since June to …
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Persona 3 Reload is en route to the Switch 2 later this month, and for anyone wondering about the chances of this remake getting a release on the original Switch, it’s probably not going to happen. If this wasn’t already clear after the Switch 2 announcement in July, the Persona team has now confirmed this in a recent interview with …
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For over a century, physics has been divided between the elegance of Einstein’s relativity and the strangeness of quantum mechanics. A new framework, the quantum memory matrix, suggests that spacetime itself is made of discrete “cells” that remember every interaction. Credit: Shutterstock What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For …
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