Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous--even deadly--confrontation isn't guaranteed. Here's how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact. In January 2026, two Americans were killed in the act of watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minneapolis. Renee Nicole Good was acting as a legal observer while her wife recorded the federal immigration agents they encountered. Alex Pretti was holding a phone in his hand, filming the agents who would soon take his life.

Has Brexit achieved its objectives six years on? Money Works Has Brexit achieved its objectives six years on? Brexit aimed to achieve greater national sovereignty and an economic revival. Six years after leaving the EU, has it achieved its objectives? Are we overestimating the value of AI? Can Syria's new banknotes rebuild the economy?

Ukrainians brace for -20C despite energy truce: 'It will be a catastrophe' It's not the electricity cuts that Yulia Hailunas struggles with most after the Russian airstrikes. Like so many Ukrainians, she's had no central heating since Russia launched a wave of targeted attacks on the power grid in January. So Yulia now lives in a long, quilted coat and hat in her flat, and rests her feet on a saucepan-full of hot water to keep them from freezing. If that's not enough, she lifts weights for 10 minutes to get warm. When the weather outside is above zero, it's just about bearable.

Will Storr: 'I was shocked to find my daily average was over four hours.' Will Storr: 'I was shocked to find my daily average was over four hours.' We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back? My use of mobile phones has been compulsive - has it been for better or for worse? From a priest to a pensioner, a teenager to a tech CEO: can you guess our screen time? I n 2003, the Stanford social scientist BJ Fogg published an extraordinarily prescient book.

Shopping center visitors watched a beer coaster tower collapse when a girl pulled a single piece from 63,000-piece structure after artist Benjamin Klapper invited public interaction.

'I spoke to ChatGPT 8 times a day' - Gen Z's loneliness'crisis' Working from home after years spent alone over Covid lockdowns, 23-year-old Paisley said he began to feel trapped, and felt only AI could help him. I lost the ability to socialise, he said, and like many in Gen Z, he turned to AI for company. At one point, I was talking to ChatGPT six, seven, eight times a day about my problems, I just couldn't get away from it, it was a dangerous slope. He shared his experience of loneliness with 22-year-old documentary maker Sam Tullen, who told the BBC what Paisley was going through was part of a wider Gen Z loneliness crisis. Gen Z, a term used for those born between 1997 and 2012, often referred to as the first'digital native' generation.

A federal jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding, 38, of seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets after an 11-day trial in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

Warsh set to face early reality check as Trump's man at the Fed Kevin Warsh has pledged to shrink the Fed's balance sheet and argued that a productivity boom driven by artificial intelligence will keep inflation low. Kevin Warsh waited almost a decade before finally clinching U.S. President Donald Trump's nomination to be chair of the Federal Reserve. He won't need to wait as long before his first big test in the job. Having won the race with a promise of regime change" at the Fed, suggesting he would make significant changes, Warsh has pledged to shrink the Fed's balance sheet and argued that a productivity boom driven by artificial intelligence will keep inflation low. While that prognosis was enough to convince Trump, his Fed pick will now need to convince fellow policymakers and investors.

Right-Wing Gun Enthusiasts and Extremists Are Working Overtime to Justify Alex Pretti's Killing Donald Trump has appeared to undermine Second Amendment rights in statements about Alex Pretti's killing. Many in the firearms community are going along with it. In the hours after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump and his administration appeared to directly undermine the rights granted to gun owners in the Second Amendment. Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem inaccurately said Pretti was a " domestic terrorist " who was "brandishing" his legally held gun. FBI director Kash Patel wrongly told Fox News it's illegal to bring a gun to a protest.

I Let Google's'Auto Browse' AI Agent Take Over Chrome. Auto Browse can shop for clothes, plan a trip, and buy tickets for you. So, while testing Google's new "Auto Browse" feature for Chrome, I was filled with a strange sense of loss as I watched the AI agent open browser tabs and attempt to complete digital tasks with automated clicks. Sure, I felt some loss of control as the bot tapped away on my laptop screen. But also a kind of preemptive nostalgia for how the internet currently works, flaws and all, considering Google's plans to fundamentally alter the user experience.