The bill is named after a Georgia nursing student who was murdered last year by Jose Ibarra, an undocumented migrant from Venezuela who had previously been apprehended for crimes including shoplifting and child endangerment. Due in part to Ibarra’s arrest history, the case became a cause célèbre on the right. “The more they get away with and the more we let these criminals go, it just emboldens them, and they step it up,” said Mike Collins, the Georgia Republican who introduced the measure in the House.If all the bill did was mandate the deportation of migrants convicted of petty theft,…
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It’s really hard to find a job right now, and the prevalence of “ghost jobs” is not helping.According to an internal review of data by hiring platform Greenhouse, 18% to 22% of job posts are ghost listings, or roles that companies aren’t actually trying to fill.Greenhouse has more than 7,500 clients, including Major League Baseball and HubSpot, and found that nearly 70% of the companies using its platform had posted at least one ghost job in the second quarter of 2024. Construction, the arts, food, and legal were the industries with the most ghost jobs, according to the internal data.For…
Meta owns social media platforms including Facebook and InstagramJRdes / Shutterstock In 2024, Meta allowed more than 3300 pornographic ads – many featuring AI-generated content – on its social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. The findings come from a report by AI Forensics, a European non-profit organisation focused on investigating tech platform algorithms. The researchers also discovered an inconsistency in Meta’s content moderation policies by re-uploading many of the same explicit images as standard posts on Instagram and Facebook. Unlike the ads, those posts were swiftly removed for violating Meta’s Community Standards. “I’m both disappointed and not surprised by…
The FBI background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, does not include interviews with Hegseth’s ex-wives or with the woman who accused Hegseth of sexual assault in a California hotel room in 2017, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the contents of the report.It is standard protocol to interview current and former spouses when conducting an FBI background check, according to two other sources familiar with the process. But it is also contingent on cooperation from the interviewees, and it is not clear whether the FBI attempted outreach to those people.Democrats on the…
The State of Texas sued Allstate on Monday, accusing the insurer of illegally tracking drivers by way of their phones through a subsidiary called Arity that claimed to have the “world’s largest driving behavior database.”“Allstate and Arity paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install Allstate’s tracking software,” Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, said in a statement. “The personal data of millions of Americans was sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent in violation of the law. Texans deserve better and we will hold all these companies accountable.”Allstate and Arity did not respond to requests for comment.The…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a negative day today: • NIKKEI 225 closed • Shanghai decreased 7.77 points or -0.25% to 3,160.76 • Hang Seng decreased 190.15 points or -1.00% to 18,874.14 • ASX 200 decreased 102.20 points or -1.23% to 8,191.90 • SENSEX decreased 1,048.90 points or -1.36% to 76,330.01 • Nifty50 decreased 345.55 points or -1.47% to 23,085.95 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00135 or 0.22% to 0.61575 • NZDUSD increased 0.00013 or 0.02% to 0.55568 • USDJPY decreased 0.368 or -0.23% to 157.403 • USDCNY decreased 0.01128…
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Fact: 18% of US presidents have died while in office. And if 78-year-old Donald Trump serves a full second term, he’ll be the oldest president in history. Yes, even older than Joe Biden. So what are his chances of surviving that full second term? Let’s take a look at everything from his overall health to the fact that people keep trying to kill him and try to determine Trump’s chances of serving out his term. The Cold Numbers The government creates actuarial tables to try and figure out how likely people are to die.…
Meghan Markle has delayed the release of her Netflix series “With Love, Meghan” to focus on wildfire relief in Los Angeles.Unfortunately, the move has sparked mixed reactions online from the duchess’ fans, who have waited a long time for its release.The move comes after Prince Harry and Meghan, through their Archewell Foundation, donated to wildfire relief efforts and opened their $29 million Montecito home to evacuees.Article continues below advertisementMeghan Markle Delays Netflix Show Release To Prioritize LA Wildfire ReliefMEGAMeghan is now facing backlash after deciding to delay the release of her upcoming Netflix series, “With Love, Meghan,” in response to…
Every year, however, nearly 100,000 people die from inhaling PM2.5 released by such disasters, with the worst effects in less affluent corners of Central America, Southeast Asia and Southern Africa. Even in California, it’s the pall of smoke that will do the most damage to human well-being. A drought-prone, densely populated strip of land strafed by seasonal winds which act like accelerants on a bushfire, it’s unusually prone to such disasters and their after-effects. Somewhere close to 55,000 premature deaths in the state between 2008 and 2018 were caused by PM2.5 from fires, according to a study last June led by researchers…
The remains of charred homes form rows across the Los Angeles landscape, as flames continue to engulf entire neighbourhoods in the Southern California city. But among the crumbling walls on Monday, some homes stand untouched. Through a mixture of luck and building design, a handful of houses in neighbourhoods otherwise reduced to ash withstood the punishing flames that destroyed thousands of homes and killed at least 24 people. The differences were stark: One home atop a hill stood between burned trees and bushes, with untouched belongings visible from the windows. Below, the remains of other homes — parts of roofs,…