Study Urges Tougher Oversight for Police Use of Facial Recognition
Photo The report found that 16 states allow law enforcement officials to compare the faces of suspects to photos on driver’s licenses and other IDs without a warrant. Credit Caspar Benson/Getty Images A new report by a think tank at Georgetown University calls for greater oversight in the use of emerging facial recognition software that makes the images of more than 117 million Americans — a disproportionate number of them black — searchable by law enforcement agencies...>> view originalPresidential debate: What to watch for in the last Clinton-Trump face-off
Both nominees enter Wednesday's presidential debate -- the final showdown of the election season -- with historically high unfavorability ratings, and need to convince undecided voters why the country would be worse off with their opponent in the White House. The match-up also comes as Trump is making perhaps his most outlandish argument yet -- that the 2016 election is rigged to help Clinton win. Clinton, meanwhile, will have a fresh set of questions to answer around newly released hacked email..>> view originalNYPD Sergeant On Modified Duty Following Deadly Bronx Shooting
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An NYPD sergeant has been placed on modified duty after police said he shot and killed an emotionally-disturbed woman who confronted him with scissors and a baseball bat. It happened shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday inside the 66-year-old woman’s apartment at Jaime Towers Housing at 630 Pugsley Avenue in the Castle Hills section of the Bronx. Police said the NYPD sergeant who arrived at the home after receiving a call about an emotionally-disturbed person found the woman wit..>> view originalLawyers present starkly different portraits of refuge occupation in closing arguments
Prosecutor Ethan Knight urged jurors to use their common sense as he framed the federal conspiracy case against Ammon Bundy and six others as strikingly simple: "These defendants took over a wildlife refuge, and it wasn't theirs.'' It's not about land use, he said Tuesday. It's not about their objections to more prison time for Harney County ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr. and Steven Hammond, nor is it about what happened during the 2014 standoff with federal agents in Bunkerville, Nevada. "They d..>> view original2 divers found dead in Florida cave system
Ten people, including two who were found Monday, have had fatal incidents inside the Eagle's Nest cave dive area in Western Florida since 1981. The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said Patrick Peacock and Chris Rittenmeyer went diving on Sunday afternoon with a third man, who reported the duo missing.Search and rescue divers found their bodies the next day in a "very dangerous and complex area of the cave system," the sheriff's office said. Peacock and Rittenmeyer had come from Fort Lauderdale ..>> view originalSuspects on loose in San Francisco school shooting
In the end, four students were shot in the parking lot of the small public high school, San Francisco Police Officer Carlos Manfredi told CNN. According to CNN affiliate KRON, investigators are now searching for multiple suspects who may have targeted a female student who is now in critical condition.The San Francisco Unified School District said the shooting was "an isolated incident outside of the school building where one student was being targeted by outsiders."Once the shooter struck the st..>> view originalWhat it would mean to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall
Donald Trump has made no secret of his plan to build a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border — and persuade Mexico to pay for it. The Republican nominee has been remarkably vocal about the proposal, one that 6 in 10 voters disagree with. The wall, he argues, is needed to curb illegal immigration, reduce gang violence near the border and stop drugs from reaching the United States. For now, fences cover just 700 miles of the nearly 2,000-mile-long border. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nomine..>> view originalIf you want a more powerful President Trump, impose term limits on Congress
By Thad Kousser October 19 at 5:00 AM Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colo., on Oct. 18, 2016. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) At a campaign appearance Tuesday in Colorado Springs, Donald Trump echoed Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” by calling for a constitutional amendment imposing term limits on Congress. As his crowd reportedly went wild, Trump claimed that “Decades of failure in Washington and decades of special interest dealing ..>> view originalFaculty on strike at 14 Pennsylvania state universities
By Associated Press October 19 at 5:42 AM HARRISBURG, Pa. — Faculty at 14 Pennsylvania state universities went on strike Wednesday morning, affecting more than 100,000 students, after contract negotiations between the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and the faculty union hit an impasse. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties announced on its website that its members went on strike at 5 a.m. since no agreement could be reached. The union represent..>> view originalRetrial Set To Open In 1979 Missing-Child Case Of Etan Patz
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — One of the nation’s most influential missing-child cases is about to be laid out for a jury, again, as a retrial begins in the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz. Opening statements are set for Wednesday in a case that eluded investigators for decades, racheted up Americans’ consciousness of missing children and now centers on whether a chilling confession was true. A jury deadlocked last year on the murder and kidnapping charges against Pedro Hernandez, a former conveni..>> view original
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