California’s State Senate approved a bill co‑sponsored by Senator Scott Wiener that would prohibit federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from wearing masks while on duty. The measure is now headed to Governor Gavin Newsom, who must decide whether to sign it into law.
People Inc CEO Neil Vogel has sharply accused Google of being the worst offender in using copyrighted content without compensation to train its AI tools. He claims that media companies produce high‑quality content only to see it harvested by Google algorithms—through articles, images, and video—without attribution or payment.
Bullet casings recovered from the scene of Charlie Kirk’s assassination were found to have messages etched into them, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox revealed. These inscriptions are being seen as possible clues to the shooter’s motive, and some may reflect online meme culture.
Washington state released new data showing slight improvements in student performance in both reading and math, but scores remain significantly below where they were before the COVID‑19 pandemic. The information was shared this week by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
Kevin Coe, the infamous “South Hill Rapist,” is scheduled for an unconditional release hearing on October 2 in Spokane County. Now 78, Coe has been held at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island since the end of his prison sentence for a string of rapes that terrorized Spokane in the 1970s and 1980s.
During a segment on All In Friday, MSNBC senior reporter Brandy Zadrozny said right‑wing extremist content online is far more abundant than left‑wing extremism. On camera, Zadrozny told host Jacob Soboroff that while radicals of the left exist, those views are harder to find compared to extremist content on the right, which she described as “overflowing.”
Bill Maher closed out Friday’s Real Time by making a case for protecting free speech—even when it’s uncomfortable. He argued that while flag burning might offend many, criminalizing it undermines a core American value. He also warned that censorship and punishment of speech could make the U.S. resemble the U.K., where people reportedly face arrests for contentious social media posts.
