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Palantir hosted a hack week this spring to try to turn internal consternation over the company’s work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into clearer oversight tools for products used in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to material reviewed by WIRED. The new tools provide organizations, including

A judge on Thursday dropped criminal charges against the former assistant principal of a Virginia elementary school accused of ignoring warnings that a child had brought a gun to class before he allegedly shot his first-grade teacher. Judge Rebecca Robinson dropped all eight counts of felony child neglect against Ebony Parker, according to NBC News.

Three people are dead and 18 first responders were transported to the hospital after emergency personnel responded to a potential overdose in a New Mexico town Wednesday. First responders entered a home in Mountainair, New Mexico, to find four people unresponsive, New Mexico State Police (NMSP) said in a Facebook post. Three of those victims

Atlantic hurricane season is almost upon us, and the early signs indicate it might be less active than usual. But that’s no reason to delete your weather app and ignore the forecast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting eight to 14 named tropical systems, of which three to six will become hurricanes and

It’s a beautiful, balmy afternoon at Dolores Park in San Francisco, and I’m singing a birthday song to a prehistoric dinosaur. A cupcake with a pink candle magically appears in my empty hand as I finish my serenade. When I blow out the flame, a calm look of contentment washes over the CGI-esque creature. While

A former U.S. attorney faces charges in Florida for allegedly stealing records related to the Biden administration’s probe of President Donald Trump over his own handling of sensitive documents. Carmen Lineberger illegally kept Department of Justice (DOJ) materials related to former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Florida case against Trump for herself, a grand jury alleged

New York City is not a car town. But pay attention as you walk, bike, or, sure, drive around the country’s most populous city, and you might notice a car trend: an increasing number of its vehicles are electric. The city government operates some 5,800 EVs, plus 4,700 hybrid vehicles—Parks Department pickups, Police Department crossover

The person leading the Department of Labor’s controversial monthly worship services has now taken over one of the agency’s most important offices. Kenneth Wolfe, the director of the DOL’s faith center, is now also leading the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the office tasked with making sure that federal contractors comply with anti-discrimination

One morning, about seven years ago, I awoke to the sound of my cell phone buzzing on my bedside table. As I sat up and the world slowly began to come into focus, I heard a high-pitched siren—something I had never heard in our year of living in the house—coming from somewhere downstairs. I answered

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the cybersecurity world with its insidious threat of turning any innocent application into a dangerous foothold in a victim’s network. Now one group of