Amazon’s face ID tool mismatched 28 members of Congress to mug shots: ACLU
A facial recognition tool that Amazon.com Inc sells to web developers wrongly identified 28 members of the U.S. Congress as police suspects, in a test conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization said on Thursday.
Geologists eye Hawaii volcano for signs eruption may be easing
Geologists are keeping a close eye on the crater of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano and a lava-spouting cone on its flank for possible signs a nearly three-month eruption may be slowing.
Most children, parents separated at U.S.-Mexican border reunited: court filing
About 1,400 children of some 2,500 separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border have been reunited with their families, the U.S. government said in a court filing on Thursday.
Starbucks, others must pay California workers for tasks done after clocking out: court
California’s top state court said on Thursday that employers must pay their workers for small amounts of time they spend on work tasks after clocking out, in a ruling that will likely lead to the revival of a lawsuit against Starbucks Corp.
Thousands flee wildfire burning near California mountain towns
A fast-moving Southern California wildfire believed set by a serial arsonist forced more than 3,000 residents of mountain resort communities to flee their homes on Thursday as crews fought to save homes in the path of the flames.
Immigrants lost in ‘black hole’ of U.S. family reunification: advocates
More than 1,400 children out of over 2,500 separated at the U.S.-Mexican border as a consequence of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration have been reunited with their parents, the U.S. government said in a court fil…
Pennsylvania transgender bathroom case splits U.S. appeals court
Four judges on the federal appeals court in Philadelphia on Thursday urged that body to revisit a key part of its decision to let transgender students in a Pennsylvania school district use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities.
Ex-Trump aide Omarosa Newman pens ‘Unhinged’ White House memoir
Former White House aide and reality television star Omarosa Manigault Newman will chronicle her time in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in a memoir to be released Aug. 14, her publisher said Thursday.
U.S. must face multistate lawsuit over census citizenship question
The Trump administration must face a lawsuit by states and advocacy groups over its plan to ask people who are filling out the 2020 census form whether they are U.S. citizens, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.
U.S. races to meet migrant reunification deadline
The U.S. government scrambled to meet a Thursday court-ordered deadline for reuniting hundreds of immigrant children and parents who had been separated at the border with Mexico, leaving many of those families now facing potentially life-changing decis…
