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Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding
Two US lawmakers, Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi and Republican Michael Cloud, plan to introduce the No FLOCK Act, a bill that would cut federal highway funding to states that fail to restrict use of Flock and similar automatic licence-plate reader cameras. The move follows growing backlash over police misuse of the surveillance technology, including officers reportedly…
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A naked performance artist in the garden with her mum: Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom’s best photograph
Photographers Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom, working together as Fotómetro, discuss their favourite image from a long-running project documenting Lois, a performance artist, and her mother Carey in their art-filled home. The photograph, taken in the pair’s garden, captures the close but largely unspoken bond between mother and daughter, and forms part of a wider…
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Crowborough protest leader arrested in campaign against military base asylum housing
Liam Tomsett, a father-of-two from Crowborough, East Sussex, has become a prominent figure in Britain’s anti-migrant protest movement after asylum seekers were housed at a former military training camp near his home. He founded the group “Crowborough Says No” to oppose the accommodation of up to 540 men at the site, and his activities are…
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Patricio Guzmán, documentarian of Chile’s coup aftermath, dies at 85
Patricio Guzmán, the Chilean documentary-maker celebrated for chronicling the impact of Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup, has died aged 85 in Paris following a cardiorespiratory arrest, according to Chilean outlet Emol. His work, most notably the landmark trilogy The Battle of Chile, offered an unflinching yet poetic account of the overthrow of elected president Salvador Allende…
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Correspondent discovers crashed news helicopter was carrying his own team
An NBC 4 Los Angeles reporter, Robert Kovacik, was covering a fatal bus crash in the Chatsworth neighbourhood on Tuesday night when a news helicopter crashed nearby, unaware at the time that his own colleagues were aboard the aircraft. Live footage captured Kovacik rushing towards the burning wreckage with his crew, pleading with police and…
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Seawater uranium extraction breakthrough addresses US nuclear fuel concerns
US clean tech startup Fluxnium says it has developed a way to economically extract uranium from seawater, potentially unlocking a vast new fuel source as America pursues plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2050. The breakthrough matters because yellowcake prices have risen 75% over five years and the US has little uranium within…
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Sondering festival debuts in Lake District with death-themed music and theatre
Sisters Sophia and Camilla Minden, raised in the Lake District, have launched the Sondering, a death-themed arts festival that treats mortality as something to be explored joyfully rather than avoided. The idea grew out of their childhood habit of ceremonially burying dead animals and, more significantly, Camilla’s diagnosis with late-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 20, which…
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Obama announces death of Portuguese Water Dog Sunny, aged 13
Former US President Barack Obama has announced the death of the family’s Portuguese Water Dog, Sunny, at the age of 13, describing the loss as that of “a cherished member of our family”. He shared the news in an emotional Instagram post on Tuesday, paying tribute to the dog’s loyalty and lively character during her…
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Landlord denies murdering tenant in bitter unpaid rent dispute
A jury has heard that Victorian landlord Steven Frederick Johnson, now 74, abducted his tenant, plumber Christopher Jarvis, shot him in the ear with a starter pistol and beat him to death with a baseball bat, before burying his body in a forest and burning his car, following a bitter dispute over more than $2,200…
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Four men jailed for Heathrow robbery involving tear gas spray
Four men who sprayed CS gas during a plot to steal luggage from passengers at Heathrow Airport last Christmas have been jailed, following an incident that closed Terminal 3 for hours. Tyrone Richards, Anton Clarke-Butcher, Omoneke Whyte and Denzel Eduardo all admitted affray at Isleworth Crown Court, with the judge describing the violence as “serious…