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Nature, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00055-4Some universities are implementing a mandatory retirement age for academics. Will it help young researchers to get permanent positions?

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canadas speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar Henry Farrell explains why.

Additional layers of review ordered by Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, have slowed assistance to disaster-struck communities.

Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche teamed up in their heyday to save Los Angeles from lava in this big-budget 1997 film that defies all logic to fantastic, farcical effect.

Jennifer Mnookin forged compromises with protesters and politicians at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Now, she faces her biggest test.

Efforts to get the states Office of Cannabis Management on track have been slow to yield results.

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WASHINGTONClaiming the nations beloved North Star State was in peril, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a ransom note Tuesday that told the United States to pay $65 billion if it ever wanted to see Minnesota again. The $65 billion should be placed in an unmarked federal appropriations billif it isnt, that will be the end of your precious Minnesota, read the note, a handmade letter assembled from magazine clippings and sent with what ICE claimed was the severed finger of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. One protester will be killed every hour on the hour until our funding demands are met. The clock is ticking for the nation to finance the construction of new detention centers and provide recruitment bonuses for agents. In the meantime, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The ransom note went on to state that explosives had already been placed in population centers across Minnesota and would be detonated if the country attempted to scale back funding for the Department of Homeland Security.The post ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again appeared first on The Onion.

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Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and many of the most popular adult sites in the world, announced today that starting February 2 it will restrict people visiting the site from the UK.In a call on Tuesday, leadership at Aylo and Ethical Capital Partners (ECP), which acquired Aylo in 2023, said that after six months of complying with the UKs Online Safety Act, its made the choice to restrict access in the country entirely. People who have already verified their ages with the current verification system will still be able to access those sites using login credentials, but anyone who hasnt already done so by February 2 will be blocked entirely.Anyone who has not gone through that process prior to February 2 will no longer be able to access [the sites] and they're going to be met with a wall, Alexzandra Kekesi, VP Brand and Community at Aylo, said. Basically, their journey on our platform will start and end there. Users on paid sites will be able to access those sites if theyre logged in; this restriction applies to Aylos free video sharing platforms.When ECP acquired Aylo in March of 2023, one of our most important commitments was to work with regulators and industry, adult and mainstream, in order to find a solution to keep minors from accessing explicit content online, Solomon Friedman, partner and vice president of compliance at Ethical Capital Partners, said in the call. That remains a key focus of our attention today. ECP does not wish for one single minor to be able to access adult content, not just on a levels platforms, but on any adult platforms. It unfortunately is disheartening that regulators have not been given the legislative tools that they need, and instead, have been provided with really flawed sets of laws that in some jurisdictions were never intended to succeed.Until now, UK-based visitors to Aylo sites have complied with the UKs Online Safety Act by verifying ages by entering a credit card, or uploading a government ID or other identification to an age estimation system called All Pass Trust. The Online Safety Act, which took effect in 2025, is similar to many laws in US states that keep users from accessing porn unless they upload an ID or pass biometric face scanning. In the UK, the law requires sites to implement age verification or face millions of dollars in fines and jailor up to 10 percent of global revenues, whichever is higher.Since going into effect, the Online Safety Act has fundamentally changed how people use the internet in the UK. Right after being implemented, platforms like Reddit, Bluesky, Spotify and others have been required to verify the ages of users to various degrees and to access various types of contentnot just porn sites.We have seen six months of failure out of the United Kingdom, once again, not because OFCOM is failing, but because the law is failing, Friedman said. And for that reason, from the ECP perspective, as the ownership group of Aylo, we want laws around the world that protect children.As part of the call, ECP and Aylo presented a demonstration of device-based age assurance, which Alyo, the adult industry, and anti-child exploitation organizations has said is a safer, more effective way to keep children from accessing adult material.

Police officers are being told to be as vague as permissible about why they are using the Flock surveillance system in order to not leak sensitive information via public records requests, according to records obtained using a public records request. The warning originated from a Houston-area police intelligence center that includes members of the FBI and ICE and suggests without evidence that people are using a website called HaveIBeenFlocked.com to potentially retaliate against law enforcement.The warnings were shared with 404 Media by researchers from Southerners Against Surveillance Systems and Infrastructure and Lucy Parsons Lab after our article about police unwittingly leaking the details of millions of surveillance targets nationwide due to public records redaction errors made by several Flock automated license plate reader system customers. This data was aggregated into a searchable tool called HaveIBeenFlocked.Rather than looking at this incident as a huge operational security failure associated with using a massive commercial surveillance system, police see this as something that puts their officers directly in harms way. The data released by police departments includes the agency doing a search, the officers name, time of search, the license plate searched, and a reason field, which is the justification for doing a specific search.In an Officer Safety Situational Awareness Bulletin, the Houston Investigative Support Center, an intelligence apparatus consisting of members of Houston-area police departments, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcements Homeland Security Investigations told members that HaveIBeenFlocked poses a significant officer safety risk to law enforcement personnel because suspects can determine if they are the target of an investigation and potentially retaliate against law enforcement and/or those cooperating with law enforcement.It goes on to say in a recommendations for Flock Users/Agency Administrators section that Flock Administrators should ensure that the reason for the query be as vague as permissible, with a suggestion being that cops just write investigation as the reason for a search."A group of self-styled privacy advocates have filed a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with law enforcement agencies around the country to obtain agency Flock audit logs," the warning reads. "The Flock system itself has not been compromised. Currently, this information appears to be coming from Washington State, Colorado, California, Georgia, Illinois, and Virginia. Agencies in these states held data from other jurisdictions pertaining to inquiries that had been made against the national Flock platform. The data on the website is not 'real time' and, as of December 8, 2025, the most recently confirmed data appeared to be from late October 2025."A member of the FBI also sent the warning from the Houston Investigative Support Center to Atlanta-area police, according to an email obtained via public records request and shared with 404 Media. In another email, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation-GISAC, which is an Atlanta-area fusion center, issued a similar warning and said that a fusion center in Illinois had done the same. Fusion centers are intelligence sharing centers in which state and local police partner with federal agencies. "This website, and others like it, poses obvious risks to officer safety, operational security, and investigative integrity. Do not use your department systems to check these sites, as their ability to pull data and leave behind code is suspect." This email also warns agencies they "should consider reviewing their current license plate reader permissions and seek guidance from their respective customer service representative for any software they have."The Georgia fusion center warning was then further shared by a member of the United States Department of Justice, the emails show.The flurry of warnings highlight just how bad of an operational security screwup Flock's information sharing design was, leaving the investigations of thousands of police departments vulnerable to a redaction error by any single one of its customers. It further highlights how law enforcement see themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect. This is a narrative we have seen tragically play out in Minneapolis as legal observers shot dead in the streets by ICE have been branded "domestic terrorists" who were threatening ICE agents by the Trump administration despite video evidence showing this was not the case.ICE has also been obsessed with not revealing the identity of its officers, with its agents wearing masks during raids, refusing to give their names or ID numbers, and the agency refusing to reveal the names of agents during court proceedings. The warnings issued by fusion centers about Flock show that this obsession with secrecy and officer anonymity is filtering down to the state and local level, because Flock is most often used by local police.The suggestion that officers should be as vague as permissible about why they are using Flock is also a problem. Police currently do not get a warrant to use Flock, and have revealed that they use it for legitimate investigations, but also for all sorts of other purposes. Flock search audit logs have been used to reveal officers who have used the system to allegedly illegally stalk people and have been used to reveal informal cooperation between local police and ICE, as well as the search for a woman who had an abortion. We revealed last year that some of these searches were illegal in some states where they were conducted. An analysis by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, meanwhile, showed that many police officers do not put any reason at all for their Flock search. Flock Officer Safety-Situational Awareness Bulletin - Houston HIDTA - December 2025 Redacted | DocumentCloudDocumentCloud

Nature, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00191-xRemembering the life and work of the geologist George Poulett Scrope, and salmon stories in this weeks pick from the Nature archive.

In a brief ruling, the Minnesota judge wrote that the unusual order was necessary because the extent of ICEs violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary.

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Nekima Levy Armstrong holds up her fist after speaking at an anti-ICE rally for Martin Luther King Jr., Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)2026-01-27T15:07:25Z LOS ANGELES (AP) The Trump administration has not shied away from sharing AI-generated imagery online, embracing cartoonlike visuals and memes and promoting them on official White House channels.But an edited and realistic image of civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in tears after being arrested is raising new alarms about how the administration is blurring the lines between what is real and what is fake.Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noems account posted the original image from Levy Armstrongs arrest before the official White House account posted an altered image that showed her crying. The doctored picture is part of a deluge of AI-edited imagery that has been shared across the political spectrum since the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by U.S. Border Patrol officers in MinneapolisHowever, the White Houses use of artificial intelligence has troubled misinformation experts who fear the spreading of AI-generated or edited images erodes public perception of the truth and sows distrust. In response to criticism of the edited image of Levy Armstrong, White House officials doubled down on the post, with deputy communications director Kaelan Dorr writing on X that the memes will continue. White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson also shared a post mocking the criticism. David Rand, a professor of information science at Cornell University, says calling the altered image a meme certainly seems like an attempt to cast it as a joke or humorous post, like their prior cartoons. This presumably aims to shield them from criticism for posting manipulated media. He said the purpose of sharing the altered arrest image seems much more ambiguous than the cartoonish images the administration has shared in the past. Memes have always carried layered messages that are funny or informative to people who understand them, but indecipherable to outsiders. AI-enhanced or edited imagery is just the latest tool the White House uses to engage the segment of Trumps base that spends a lot of time online, said Zach Henry, a Republican communications consultant who founded Total Virality, an influencer marketing firm. People who are terminally online will see it and instantly recognize it as a meme, he said. Your grandparents may see it and not understand the meme, but because it looks real, it leads them to ask their kids or grandkids about it.All the better if it prompts a fierce reaction, which helps it go viral, said Henry, who generally praised the work of the White Houses social media team.The creation and dissemination of altered images, especially when they are shared by credible sources, crystallizes an idea of whats happening, instead of showing what is actually happening, said Michael A. Spikes, a professor at Northwestern University and news media literacy researcher. The government should be a place where you can trust the information, where you can say its accurate, because they have a responsibility to do so, he said. By sharing this kind of content, and creating this kind of content it is eroding the trust even though Im always kind of skeptical of the term trust but the trust we should have in our federal government to give us accurate, verified information. Its a real loss, and it really worries me a lot. Spikes said he already sees the institutional crises around distrust in news organizations and higher education, and feels this behavior from official channels inflames those issues. Ramesh Srinivasan, a professor at UCLA and the host of the Utopias podcast, said many people are now questioning where they can turn to for trustable information. AI systems are only going to exacerbate, amplify and accelerate these problems of an absence of trust, an absence of even understanding what might be considered reality or truth or evidence, he said. Srinivasan said he feels the White House and other officials sharing AI-generated content not only invites everyday people to continue to post similar content but also grants permission to others who are in positions of credibility and power, like policymakers, to share unlabeled synthetic content. He added that given that social media platforms tend to algorithmically privilege extreme and conspiratorial content which AI generation tools can create with ease weve got a big, big set of challenges on our hands. An influx of AI-generated videos related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement action, protests and interactions with citizens has already been proliferating on social media. After Renee Good was shot by an ICE officer while she was in her car, several AI-generated videos began circulating of women driving away from ICE officers who told them to stop. There are also many fabricated videos circulating of immigration raids and of people confronting ICE officers, often yelling at them or throwing food in their faces. Jeremy Carrasco, a content creator who specializes in media literacy and debunking viral AI videos, said the bulk of these videos are likely coming from accounts that are engagement farming, or looking to capitalize on clicks by generating content with popular keywords and search terms like ICE. But he also said the videos are getting views from people who oppose ICE and DHS and could be watching them as fan fiction, or engaging in wishful thinking, hoping that theyre seeing real pushback against the organizations and their officers. Still, Carrasco also believes that most viewers cant tell if what theyre watching is fake, and questions whether they would know whats real or not when it actually matters, like when the stakes are a lot higher.Even when there are blatant signs of AI generation, like street signs with gibberish on them or other obvious errors, only in the best-case scenario would a viewer be savvy enough or be paying enough attention to register the use of AI. This issue is, of course, not limited to news surrounding immigration enforcement and protests. Fabricated and misrepresented images following the capture of deposed Venezuelan leader Nicols Maduro exploded online earlier this month. Experts, including Carrasco, think the spread of AI-generated political content will only become more commonplace.Carrasco believes that the widespread implementation of a watermarking system that embeds information about the origin of a piece of media into its metadata layer could be a step toward a solution. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity has developed such a system, but Carrasco doesnt think that will become extensively adopted for at least another year.Its going to be an issue forever now, he said. I dont think people understand how bad this is. __Associated Press writers Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix and Barbara Ortutay in San Francisco contributed to this report. KAITLYN HUAMANI Huamani covers social media and internet culture for The Associated Press. mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

A man takes an image with his phone next to where the border wall separating Mexico and the United States reaches the Pacific Ocean Jan. 28, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)2026-01-27T15:12:21Z ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) President Donald Trumps crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nations growth rate as the U.S. population reached nealry 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp drop from 2024s almost 1% growth rate, which was the highest since 2001 and was fueled by immigration. The 2024 estimates put the U.S. population at 340 million people.Immigration increased by 1.3 million people last year, compared with 2024s increase of 2.8 million people. The census report did not distinguish between legal and illegal immigration.In the past 125 years, the lowest growth rate was in 2021, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when the U.S. population grew by just 0.16%, or 522,000 people, and immigration increased by just 376,000 people because of travel restrictions into the U.S. Before that, the lowest growth rate was just under 0.5% in 1919 at the height of the Spanish flu. Tuesdays data release comes as researchers have been trying to determine the effects of the second Trump administrations immigration crackdown after the Republican president returned to the White House in January 2025. Trump made the surge of migrants at the southern border a central issue in his winning 2024 presidential campaign. The numbers made public Tuesday reflect change from July 2024 to July 2025, covering the end of President Joe Bidens Democratic administration and the first half of Trumps first year back in office. The figures capture a period that reflects the beginning of enforcement surges in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, but do not capture the impact on immigration after the Trump administrations crackdowns began in Chicago; New Orleans; Memphis, Tennessee; and Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 2025 numbers were a jarring divergence from 2024, when net international migration accounted for 84% of the nations 3.3 million-person increase from the year before. The jump in immigration two years ago was partly because of a new method of counting that added people who were admitted for humanitarian reasons. They do reflect recent trends we have seen in out-migration, where the numbers of people coming in is down and the numbers going out is up, Eric Jensen, a senior research scientist at the Census Bureau, said last week.Unlike the once-a-decade census, which determines how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the distribution of $2.8 trillion in annual government funding, the population estimates are calculated from government records and internal Census Bureau data.The release of the 2025 population estimates was delayed by the federal government shutdown last fall and comes at a challenging time for the Census Bureau and other U.S. statistical agencies. The bureau, which is the largest statistical agency in the U.S., lost about 15% of its workforce last year due to buyouts and layoffs that were part of cost-cutting efforts by the White House and its Department of Government Efficiency. Other recent actions by the Trump administration, such as the firing of Erika McEntarfer as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, have raised concerns about political meddling at U.S. statistical agencies. But Brookings demographer William Frey said the bureaus staffers appear to have been doing this work as usual without interference. So I have no reason to doubt the numbers that come out, Frey said.___Follow Mike Schneider on the social platform Bluesky: @mikeysid.bsky.social.___Follow the APs coverage of the U.S. Census Bureau at https://apnews.com/hub/us-census-bureau. MIKE SCHNEIDER Schneider covers census, demographics and Florida for The Associated Press. Author of 2023 book, Mickey and the Teamsters. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00234-3To get the most out of the sensing revolution, different disciplines need to be on the same wavelength. This is a priority for the Nature Portfolios newest journal, Nature Sensors.

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Nature, Published online: 26 January 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-00271-yBeetle larvae are the first animal known to imitate the scent of a flower. Plus, a proposal for a new north-star number for climate progress and why Greenland is a unique hotspot for research.

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Specialist Meric Greenbaum works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)2026-01-27T05:09:54Z NEW YORK (AP) Stocks are zigzagging on Wall Street Tuesday following a rush of mixed profit reports from UnitedHealth, General Motors and other big companies, and the crosscurrents are keeping overall indexes in check.The S&P 500 rose 0.5% and could top its all-time high set a couple weeks ago, even though more stocks fell within the index than rose. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 382 points, or 0.8%, as of 11 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.9% higher. UnitedHealth Group tumbled 19.3% despite reporting a profit for the latest quarter that was a bit better than analysts expected. More attention was on the companys forecast for revenue in the upcoming year, which fell short of Wall Streets expectations and could be weaker than it was in 2025. It and other health care companies also felt heavy pressure from a projected rate increase for Medicare Advantage by the U.S. government that was well below investors hopes. Humana fell 19.6%, Elevance Health dropped 11.4% and CVS Health sank 11.7%. Helping to keep the market in check was Corning, which climbed 17.5% after announcing a deal with Meta Platforms thats worth up to $6 billion. Corning will supply optical fiber and cable to help build out data centers for Meta, enough that Corning is expanding its optical-fiber manufacturing facility in Hickory, North Carolina. Also supporting the U.S. stock market were gains for General Motors, which rose 9.4%, and hospital-operator HCA Healthcare, which rallied 11.4%. Both delivered profits for the end of 2025 that topped Wall Streets expectations. Both also approved programs to send billions of dollars to their investors by buying back their own stock. Profit reports elsewhere on Wall Street were mixed. UPS, which moves packages around the global economy, rose 3.1% after reporting a stronger profit and forecasting better revenue for 2026 than analysts expected. American Airlines lost 2.9% after delivering a profit for the end of 2025 that fell well short of analysts expectations, in part because the U.S. government shutdowns siphoned away some revenue. The pressure is on companies to deliver strong growth in profits following the record-setting runs for their stock prices. Stock prices tend to follow corporate profits over the long term, and earnings need to rise to quiet criticism that stock prices have grown too expensive.Several of Wall Streets most influential stocks will deliver their latest earnings reports later this week. They include Meta Platforms, Microsoft and Tesla on Wednesday and Apple on Thursday.Several of those Big Tech stocks were among the strongest forces lifting the S&P 500 Tuesday, including gains of 2% for Apple and 1.7% for Microsoft. Another way stock prices can look less expensive is if interest rates fall. The Federal Reserve will announce its next move on interest rates Wednesday, but the widespread expectation is that it will hold its main interest rate steady for now. Inflation remains stubbornly above the Feds 2% target, and lower interest rates could worsen increases in prices for U.S. consumers at the same time that they give the economy a boost. In the bond market, Treasury yields eased a bit ahead of the Feds decision. The yield on the 10-year Treasury ticked down to 4.21% from 4.22% late Monday. It edged lower after a report from the Conference Board said confidence among U.S. consumers weakened last month, when economists expected a slight improvement. It dropped to its lowest level since 2014, even lower than it was during the COVID-19 pandemic. In stock markets abroad, indexes rose across much of Europe and Asia. Indias Sensex index added 0.4% after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country had reached agreement on a free trade deal with the European Union.The accord, which touches 2 billion people, was concluded after nearly two decades of negotiations. Its one of the biggest bilateral engagements on commerce. The timing comes as Washington targets both India and the EU with steep import tariffs. South Koreas Kospi jumped 2.7%, and Hong Kongs Hang Seng rallied 1.4% for two of the worlds bigger moves.___AP Business Writers Matt Ott and Elaine Kurtenbach contributed.

The Department of Homeland Security now says that two weeks of critical surveillance footage from within Immigrations and Customs Enforcements Broadview detention center wasnt actually lost in a system crash, but rather, was never recorded in the first place. It is also arguing that, had the footage been recorded, it would be irrelevant because prisoner living conditions have improved since the time it was supposed to be recorded.The filings, made by U.S. attorneys on behalf of Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and other DHS officials, are the latest in an ongoing class action lawsuit against the U.S. government filed by detainees at the Chicago-area ICE detention center. The people suing the government in this case argue that they were held in subhuman, illegal conditions at Broadview: They are denied sufficient food and water [] the temperatures are extreme and uncomfortable [] the physical conditions are filthy, with poor sanitation, clogged toilets, and blood, human fluids, and insects in the sinks and the floor [] federal officers who patrol Broadview under Defendants authority are abusive and cruel, their complaint reads in part.As we have reported, the plaintiffs lawyers have been trying to get the government to produce nearly two weeks worth of surveillance footage from inside the detention center from between October 20 and October 31, 2025, which was a critical period where ICE was detaining people en masse in Chicago. The government first said that the footage had been irretrievably destroyed, but that it was working with its vendor, a one-person company called Five by Five, to try to recover it. In a later filing, it said that the footage was lost due to a nonspecific system crash.In its most recent filing, however, the government claims that the footage was never recorded in the first place and, furthermore, it would appreciate if the plaintiffs would stop asking for it because it would be of marginal relevance anyway:The Broadview video surveillance footage for October 20 to October 31, 2025, is not missing. Rather, due to a technical issue, the Video System failed to record video or audio footage during that period. Contractors manage the system for the defendants. An employee of the contractor with personal knowledge of events explained during a meeting with counsel of record how he discovered that the System did not record footage from October 20 to October 31, 2025, the governments attorneys wrote. His explanation of events eviscerates any vestigial relevance of plaintiffs Third Set of discovery requests which assumes that spoliation occurred in this case.As plaintiffs are aware, their allegations of negligence or spoliation of the video footage at Broadview are unfounded, they added. The video system did not record any footage from October 20th to 31st (in the morning) due to equipment malfunction or failure. So, plaintiffs suggestion that information about the video system is necessary because the circumstances under which this footage was lost or not recorded remain unclear is simply false It is beyond the scope of discovery for plaintiffs to assume the role of quality service inspectors for the video system at Broadview. Defendants should not be compelled to produce information calculated to show whether the failure to record was due to poor maintenance practicesThe Department of Justices lawyers wrote that the court needs to rein in plaintiffs attempt to seek discovery beyond what is is necessary, and that its efforts to obtain various information such as document retention policies, failure of the video system at Broadview to record footage, and efforts to respond to discovery are inappropriate. The requests plaintiffs seek to enforce in their motion are highly objectionable.In a separate filing from earlier this month, DOJ lawyers argued that the court should limit the scope of information that it is required to produce for the case and that the court should not focus on what the conditions at Broadview were in the past, but it should focus on what they are in the present because a temporary restraining order from the court required the government to improve detainee conditions: Discovery on pastrather than currentconditions at Broadview are unproductive. During weekly visits to Broadview, plaintiffs counsel must have observed current conditions of confinement at the facility and interviewed individuals who were there to be processed. The conditions of confinement at Broadview, which, as the court is aware, are vastly changed since the [temporary restraining order] was entered and do not now present the issues that existed earlier, they wrote. Plaintiffs continue to insist on discovery about past conditions that is not necessary.As some plaintiffs counsel will have observed during their in-person visits, the conditions at Broadview are no longer what they were when this complaint was filed, they added. Things have changed at Broadview drastically, with it returning to be a very short-term processing center without overnight stays. The scope and urgency of plaintiffs multiple discovery requests are no longer proportional to the needs of the case as it exists, if they ever were [] this historical information is unhelpful to the court as it decides whether current conditions at Broadview violate the U.S. Constitution.Meanwhile, a filing by attorneys for the plaintiff, from the MacArthur Justice Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, and the Eimer Stahl law firm, provides more details about how janky Broadviews surveillance system allegedly was and highlights why the lost footage is critically important. The attorneys note that there is an enormous gap in footage from October 20 to 31 (in the morning), when Plaintiffs were at Broadview and unconstitutional conditions were at their apex. The circumstances under which this footage was lost or not recorded remain unclear, and Plaintiffs are investigating the possibility of spoliation warranting an adverse inference against Defendants regarding conditions at Broadview during this time.According to court records, the system was managed by a company called Five by Five Management, LLC, which is a one-person firm, as well as another contractor who is not named in the filing. Apparently there was a server that crashed on October 20, which led to footage not being recorded, but information about how or why this happened is in the governments hands, the plaintiffs attorneys wrote.Other important information is on something the court is calling the old server, which is a server that is owned by Five by Five Management and was disconnected on November 24; the plaintiffs attorneys say that they are having trouble getting information from that server, and that Five by Five Management wants to be paid for it.The filing states that the government and attorneys for the plaintiffs asked Five by Five for a written plan to recover as much data from the old server as possible, but that it was short on technical detail, and it requested a substantial monetary payment for the project plus indemnification from all parties. These are non startersThe Old Server is Government property and Defendants are responsible for producing the discoverable data that exists on it, the plaintiffs attorneys wrote. Defendants cannot punt to their contractor and require Plaintiffs to make a deal with Five by Five in order to obtain information that Defendants own and control. Thus, even as to responsive information that may actually be stored on the Old Server, Plaintiffs are nowhere near getting access.The owner of Five by Five Management is set to be deposed in the case on Thursday. The judge in the case rejected much of the governments argument and said that it needs to respond in detail about what happened to the video.The court records used to report this story can be found here.

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Nature, Published online: 27 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10186-3Author Correction: Relatively warm deep-water formation persisted in the Last Glacial Maximum

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HOBOKEN, NJIn a major shift from the companys decades-long focus on inner beauty, personal care product brand Dove finally admitted Tuesday that some people are ugly. Despite years of claims that people of all shapes and sizes are beautiful, we are now prepared to agree that there are some butterfaced uggos out there whose looks cannot be fixed by any amount of attitude or personal style, said Dove brand overseer Fabian Garcia, telling reporters Dove officially recognized many asymmetrical faces and unsightly blemishes could cause a persons appearance to fall far short of any reasonable beauty standard. Weve striven to promote body positivity and confidence with our ad messaging, but we have to be honest and own up to the fact that there are some total twos out there who shouldprobably put a bag over their head for everyones sake and, even then, only go out at night. While we will continue to offer our signature collection of body care products to everyone, we want to be clearthat a great deal of our consumer base has at least one or two physical characteristicsbe it a pig nose, a protruding forehead, or eyes that are too close togetherthat make them totally unfuckable. Garcia added that in acknowledgment of this reality, Dove would be introducing a new soap for users to spray directly into their eyes after witnessing these heinous freaks.The post Dove Finally Admits Some People Ugly appeared first on The Onion.

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Since President Trumps rise, the issue has been a strength for the party. But now, after the chaos in Minnesota, Democrats see an opening and some Republicans worry that Mr. Trump is going too far.