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Yahoo
5 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Howard County placed on list of 'sanctuary' jurisdictions, officials says laws are in compliance
May 31—Howard County was placed on a list of "sanctuary" jurisdictions, but officials say county law doesn't impede the federal government's enforcement of federal laws. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Already subscribed? To log in, click here.
Daily Mail
6 hours ago
- General
- Daily Mail
PETER HITCHENS: Now we know why the police are too busy to bother with all those shoplifters and thugs
The amazing thing about modern Britain is what is legal. That is to say, what can you do without anything happening to you? This week it is legal to burgle, to shoplift, to travel on public transport without paying your fare, to smoke marijuana in the street, to fill your tank at a petrol station and drive away without paying. It can't be long before GBH joins the list. The police, we're told, have more important things to do. Now we know what sort of things these are. Behold PC Stephen Smith and PC Rachel Comotto. A stout jury of British citizens has just examined their actions in a South Coast care home and decided that what they did was not a crime. So it is legal, too. I've watched film of this event and advise you to do so, even if it makes you very angry. Because it contains some crucial truths about this country as it now is.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cary man charged with fraudulent sale of Mustang
A Cary man who previously lived in Lee County was charged in the fraudulent sale of a 2017 Ford Mustang. Yousuf Hasona Elzeaitry, 20, was charged with felony obtaining property by false pretense and misdemeanor fraud in disposal of a mortgage property. According to an arrest warrant, Elzeaitry sold the Ford Mustang to John Holly for $5,500 without disclosing that he had a lien on it for $18,978. Elzeaitry was initially arrested Sept. 18, 2024, and posted a $10,000 bond that day by paying $1,000, but he failed to appear in court on May 7 and was re-arrested on May 20, according to eCourts. He is now being held on a $20,000 bond. Elzeaitry previously lived at 519 David Hill Road in northern Lee County and currently lists an address at 1303 Crossroads Manor Ct. in Cary, according to eCourts.
Washington Post
13 hours ago
- General
- Washington Post
Honolulu police arrested sober drivers to hit DUI quotas, lawsuit alleges
Ammon Fepuleai said he didn't have a single drink on the night of Nov. 7, 2023. But when he pulled up to a Honolulu police sobriety checkpoint, an officer claimed to smell alcohol anyway. Body-camera footage later showed Fepuleai followed instructions during a field sobriety test, showed no signs of impairment and blew a 0.00 on a breathalyzer, court records state. Still, officers arrested him, shut down the checkpoint early and drove Fepuleai to a police station, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.
CBC
13 hours ago
- General
- CBC
Renowned N.B. swordsmith begins forging a career in law
Longtime swordsmith Jacob Powning was travelling the world, visiting museums and working with researchers, when he glimpsed something that drove him to make a huge life change. He had been documenting 2,000-year-old Celtic swords at the British Museum in London when it happened. "I remember just walking by this beautiful building and looking in the window and seeing an old Windsor back chair at a desk with a lamp and realizing that it was somebody's office," Durling said in an interview. Powning was looking at a lawyer's office, and "it seemed like a fantasy that somebody could do that kind of career," he said. He decided to become a lawyer and on Friday graduated from the University of New Brunswick law school. Durling had always been interested in politics, regulations and deepening his understanding of how human society works, he said. "I had done the things that I wanted to do in swordsmithing, and I decided that that was a good time to try moving on to a career in law." The change in direction followed an international career in swordsmithing, making swords using heat and special tools to forge and craft them. Powning's swords have specially designed sheaths, handles and blades featuring elaborate details. He has friends who've made swords for movies and TV shows, including Thor and a Game of Thrones spinoff. Powning focused on European swordsmithing from the Iron Age and documented swords at the British Museum and in Germany. His own swords were made in the European tradition and sold to collectors in Cyprus, northern Europe, China, the United States and Canada. One of his swords was added to the collection at the Deutsches Klingenmuseum, a German sword museum, he said. Now he's interested in law related to privacy and artificial intelligence. He wants to work on the copyright implications of AI and the fact it is trained using artists' work without their permission. This "training" involves exposing AI models to data, including art, which the models use to produce content, replicating some of the original data. AI companies have argued this process is legal because of the "fair use" legal doctrine. Powning studied the philosophy of human identity and language at university and does not believe a machine can convincingly imitate human language. The suggestion that it can, he said, raises big questions about human identity for him. This ties into another thing stirring Powning's interest in law — the fact that "deepfakes" have been appearing before courts in recent years. The government of Canada describes deepfakes as "media manipulations that are based on advanced artificial intelligence (AI), where images, voices, videos or text are digitally altered or fully generated by AI." It warns that deepfakes "can be used to falsely place anyone or anything into a situation in which they did not participate." We have the capacity to use AI in a good way and not allow it to be used for evil. - Jacob Powning Powning said that in the legal world, this has become an issue because it enables "a kind of deepfake defence, where somebody might claim that a video is a deepfake when it isn't, and there are actually a number of cases where that's already happened." But with proper legal protection, Powning said, "we have the capacity to use AI in a good way and not allow it to be for evil." In terms of advice for artists and artisans who might be considering a new path, "it's not too late to try something new," he said. A lot of an artist's skills are transferable, he said.
