MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers ...

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel collaborative dysarthric speech recognition system designed to convert dysarthric speech into non-dysarthric speech to enhance the robustness of automatic speech ...

If there's one thing Bad Bunny is going to do, it's put his beloved island of Puerto Rico on top time and time again. After taking home two Grammy awards for best música urbana album and best global ...

Billie Eilish took home the prize for Song of the Year at the 2026 Grammy Awards — and the hitmaker didn’t hold back in her impassioned acceptance speech. “Thank you so much. I can’t believe this,” ...

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On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the face recognition app that federal immigration agents use to identify people in the field, undocumented ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at Davos last week sent shock waves through the international community. The international-affairs scholar Henry Farrell explains why. This is an edited transcript ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

The House Oversight Committee said it will seek to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear for a deposition today in its Jeffrey Epstein probe. Coverage of ...

The biggest chains in America are using facial recognition technology to try to stop shoplifting. But most customers are unaware their faces are being scanned while they shop. Facial recognition isn’t ...

If you’re a Wegmans shopper, Big Brother may be watching you. The supermarket chain said it’s starting to use facial recognition technology in some stores. Wegmans addressed its strategy after signs ...