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The chaos and confusion leading up to the officer-involved shooting of best-selling author Jillian Lauren, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was captured on several security cameras and police-worn body cams, including the moment Lauren apparently pointed and racked her firearm. “Put the gun down! Hey, put the gun down!” police officers say from the other side of a large wooden fence along Lauren’s property in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles. They continue shouting out similar orders, telling the 51-year-old writer to “lay the gun down” while emphasizing that they’re only “trying to help,” according to video…

Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unionization effort. These DeepMind employees are reportedly unhappy about Google’s decision to remove a pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance from its website. They’re also concerned about the company’s work with the Israeli military, including a $1.2 billion cloud computing contract that has prompted protests elsewhere at Google. One source told the FT that team members feel “duped,” and correspondence reportedly shows that at least five…

A federal judge is demanding answers after the Trump administration apparently deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” The toddler, identified in court documents as “VML,” was initially detained alongside her mother, Jenny Carolina Lopez Villela, and her older sister, Valeria, during a routine immigration check-in in New Orleans earlier this week, The New York Times reported. She’d been visiting the “Intensive Supervision Appearance Program” office, attorneys wrote, noting that  Lopez Villela had been freed from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention in 2021 under the same program. When the father arrived at the ICE field office,…

A 64-year-old man is accused of intentionally killing a motorcyclist during a road rage incident on the Long Island Expressway, officials announced Friday. Brian Noll, of Scio, in western N.Y., was driving a 2022 Ford pickup truck on the South Service Road of the LIE early Friday afternoon when he got into a confrontation with a 29-year-old man riding a 2016 Kawasaki motorcycle, Nassau County police said in a news release. Both Noll and the still-unidentified motorcyclist were headed in the same direction. During the confrontation, Noll intentionally drove into the Kawasaki, “pinning the victim against the guardrail,” causing severe…

Update (April 26 at 8:57 PM UTC): This article has been updated to include updates from Loopscale. Solana decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Loopscale temporarily halted its lending markets after suffering an approximately $5.8 million exploit. On April 26, a hacker siphoned approximately 5.7 million USDC (USDC) and 1200 Solana (SOL) from the lending protocol after taking out a “series of undercollateralized loans”, Loopscale co-founder Mary Gooneratne said in an X post. Loopscale has since “re-enabled loan repayments, top-ups, and loop closing”, but “[a]ll other app functions (including Vault withdrawals) are still temporarily restricted while we investigate and ensure mitigation of this exploit,”…

Summary Narnia reboot casts Emma Mackey as the White Witch for Netflix adaptation. Mackey joins the ensemble cast with Daniel Craig and Meryl Streep for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia. Gerwig’s movie will reportedly adapt The Magician’s Nephew, focusing on the White Witch’s origin. The Chronicles of Narnia is making a comeback, but this time on the streaming giant Netflix. The Narnia reboot has made progress by casting its White Witch. The original Chronicles of Narnia film series is based on C.S. Lewis’ fantasy novels. Three movies were released — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The…

CNN  —  One victim had recently returned home after decades working abroad to enjoy a retirement filled with travel and family time; another hoped the trip into the beauty of Indian-administered Kashmir would cheer the spirits of his semi-paralyzed wife. Both men were among 26 tourists shot dead by militants this week in a massacre that has ripped open old wounds between India and its neighbor Pakistan, tipping them a step closer to military escalation. Both countries claim Kashmir in its entirety, but each control only part. They have fought three wars over the territory – which is famous for…

Shedeur Sanders’ stunning slide finally came to an end. Once considered a candidate to be the first overall pick, the Colorado quarterback fell all the way to No. 144 before the Cleveland Browns took him Saturday in the fifth round of the 2025 NFL Draft. Cleveland traded up to do so, sending the No. 166 and No. 192 picks to the Seattle Seahawks to land the most polarizing prospect in this year’s draft class. “Thank you GOD,” Sanders, who did not attend the draft in Green Bay, wrote on social media shortly after his name was called. He celebrated being…

United States Senator Jon Ossoff expressed support for impeaching President Donald Trump during an April 25 town hall, citing the President’s plan to host a private dinner for top Official Trump memecoin holders. “I mean, I saw just 48 hours ago, he is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin,” said Ossoff, a Democrat, according to a report by NBC News. “When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.”Senator Ossoff said he “strongly” supports impeachment…

Elden Ring Nightreign is swiftly approaching its release, and everyone is gearing up for the late-May launch. This multiplayer-focused roguelike spin on Elden Ring caught Game Awards 2024 viewers off guard with its debut, and now, with another multiplayer FromSoftware game called The Duskbloods already announced for the Nintendo Switch 2, it’s on the cusp of proving whether its experiments were worthwhile. Although there isn’t as much hype around Elden Ring Nightreign as there is a typical new FromSoftware release, this title will hopefully deliver fans an experience that Elden Ring couldn’t provide on its own. Players will jump into…