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ICE Agent's 'Dragging' Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting

WIRED

ICE Agent's'Dragging' Case May Help Expose Evidence in Renee Good Shooting The government has withheld details of the investigation of Renee Good's killing--but an unrelated case involving the ICE agent who shot her could force new revelations. Defense attorneys for a Minnesota man convicted in December of assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross are seeking access to investigative files related to the killing of Renee Nicole Good, after learning Ross was the same officer who shot and killed her during a targeted operation in Minneapolis last month. Attorneys for Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala asked a federal judge on Friday to order prosecutors to turn over training records as well as investigative files related to Ross, the ICE agent who killed Good on January 7 during Operation Metro Surge and was also injured in a June 2025 incident in which Muñoz-Guatemala dragged him with his car. A separate post-trial motion by the defense, filed in the US District Court in Minnesota, asks the judge to pause deadlines for a new-trial motion until the discovery motion is resolved. Muñoz-Guatemala's attorneys argue that even if the court ultimately decides that any newly discovered evidence doesn't entitle their client to a new trial, he's entitled to explore whether there are mitigating factors that could impact the length of his sentence, such as whether Ross' injuries could have been, to some degree, brought upon him by his own behavior.


Inside the ICE Forum Where Agents Complain About Their Jobs

WIRED

Definitely not working smarter," writes one forum user. On a forum with over 5,000 members claiming to be current and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, users vent their frustrations and concerns about the agency as it has become the center of public ire. Definitely not working smarter," wrote one user. The forum contains posts dating back over a decade and describes itself as an "unofficial forum for current Deportation Officers, prospective applicants and retired Deportation Officers to have a platform for discussion." In posts viewed by WIRED, users complain of long working hours, limited overtime pay, incompetent leadership, and poorly trained new recruits.


The US economy seems strong after a year of Trump, but is it really?

Al Jazeera

What is the Insurrection Act? Why is the US Fed chair criminal probe causing alarm? Which 75 countries are on Trump's travel ban list? The US economy seems strong after a year of Trump, but is it really? Over the past year, United States President Donald Trump has unleashed a slew of policies that have upended businesses, supply chains and jobs.


Dozens of ICE Vehicles in Minnesota Lack 'Necessary' Lights and Sirens

WIRED

A contract justification published in a federal register on Tuesday says that 31 ICE vehicles operating in the Twin Cities area "lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens" to be "compliant." Paul area "currently lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens" required to be "compliant with law enforcement requirements," according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Tuesday. The document justifies ICE paying Whelen Engineering Company, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in "emergency warning and lighting technology," $47,330.49 The document explains that the ATLAS kits would "allow vehicles to be immediately operational and compliant with law enforcement requirements to support the current surge operation" out of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)'s St. Paul office, which conducts operations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. "These vehicles were deployed prior to being permanently retrofitted and currently lack the necessary emergency lights and sirens required for operational use," the document says.


FBI Agent's Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE's Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath

WIRED

FBI Agent's Sworn Testimony Contradicts Claims ICE's Jonathan Ross Made Under Oath The testimony also calls into question whether Ross failed to follow his training during the incident in which he reportedly shot and killed Minnesota citizen Renee Good. In testimony last month in federal court in Minnesota, FBI special agent Bernardo Medellin appeared to directly contradict a claim that ICE agent Jonathan Ross made under oath about whether a man they were trying to detain had asked to speak to his attorney. Medellin's testimony, which details federal training for interactions with drivers, also calls into question whether Ross followed his training during the interaction that led to the shooting and killing of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother, last week. Ross has been identified by multiple media outlets as the shooter; while the Trump administration has declined to confirm those reports, details about the shooter shared by Vice President JD Vance match details of Ross' biography. As WIRED previously reported, in December Ross testified that last June he led a team seeking to apprehend a man named Roberto Carlos Muñoz-Guatemala, who had an administrative warrant out for being in the US without authorization.


Democratic or Authoritarian? Probing a New Dimension of Political Biases in Large Language Models

Piedrahita, David Guzman, Strauss, Irene, Schölkopf, Bernhard, Mihalcea, Rada, Jin, Zhijing

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into everyday life and information ecosystems, concerns about their implicit biases continue to persist. While prior work has primarily examined socio-demographic and left--right political dimensions, little attention has been paid to how LLMs align with broader geopolitical value systems, particularly the democracy--authoritarianism spectrum. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology to assess such alignment, combining (1) the F-scale, a psychometric tool for measuring authoritarian tendencies, (2) FavScore, a newly introduced metric for evaluating model favorability toward world leaders, and (3) role-model probing to assess which figures are cited as general role-models by LLMs. We find that LLMs generally favor democratic values and leaders, but exhibit increased favorability toward authoritarian figures when prompted in Mandarin. Further, models are found to often cite authoritarian figures as role models, even outside explicit political contexts. These results shed light on ways LLMs may reflect and potentially reinforce global political ideologies, highlighting the importance of evaluating bias beyond conventional socio-political axes. Our code is available at: https://github.com/irenestrauss/Democratic-Authoritarian-Bias-LLMs.



Unlocking the Potential of Global Human Expertise

Neural Information Processing Systems

For example, in the Pandemic Response Challenge experiment, the context consisted of data about the geographic region for which the predictions were made, e.g., historical data of COVID-19 cases and intervention policies; actions were future schedules of intervention policies for the region; and outcomes were predicted future cases of COVID-19 along with the stringency