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Thursday, June 1, 2023 by Emma Freer
City Council is negotiating how long the Austin Police Department should retain data from dashboard camera license plate readers - weighing civil liberty protections against potential crime-solving benefits - in preparation for a pilot program using the technology.

President Joe Biden is set to announce on Thursday that he will nominate Air Force chief of staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to a defense official familiar with the plans.The decision follows Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's recommendation to pick Brown as the military's next top officer, the official said.

Photo by Douglas Y. Thursday, May 18, 2023 by Emma Freer
The Public Safety Commission voted unanimously that City Council approve a pilot program reinstating the Austin Police Department's license-plate reader program - with caveats.Council is due to revisit a new contract for license-plate reader systems and related services with a third-party vendor at its Thursday meeting.

The Girl Guides, Canada's equivalent of the Girl Scouts, has renamed its Brownies branch in an effort to become more inclusive, after current and former members who are people of color said that the name had caused them harm.Girls in the branch, which is for 7- and 8-year-olds, will now be called Embers after an online vote by members, the Girl Guides of Canada announced on Wednesday.

Still deadlocked on proposed common good measures, the Oakland Education Association entered its fifth day on the picket lines Wednesday, and planned to rally outside a regularly scheduled board meeting in the evening as its fiery strike against the Oakland Unified School District continued.Teachers, parents, students and other school staff began picketing once again outside various Oakland Unified schools at 7:30 a.m.

The parents of a South Carolina ninth grader said in a federal lawsuit that a teacher pushed their daughter into a wall after she ignored demands to acknowledge the Pledge of Allegiance as it was broadcast over her high school's intercom.The 15-year-old student, Marissa Barnwell, and her parents said that the school district did not respond to their inquiries about the episode, prompting them to file a federal lawsuit last month.

Attorneys for a man shot and injured by Kyle Rittenhouse during a protest in 2020 are asking a federal judge to give them more time to serve Rittenhouse with a civil lawsuit, alleging that he is purposefully trying to evade them.Attorneys for Gaige Grosskreutz filed the request on Wednesday, the deadline that U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman had given them to serve the lawsuit on Rittenhouse and the other defendants.

Angel City had just one player under contract when it traded for the rights to Julie Ertz, a two-time World Cup champion midfielder, and Sarah Gorden, a 2021 finalist for National Women's Soccer League defender of the year.That was 15 months ago.The team has played an entire season since then, and neither Ertz nor Gorden has made it to the field yet.

Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.Birth date: May 25, 1960 Birth place: Plymouth, Minnesota Birth name: Amy Jean Klobuchar Father: Jim Klobuchar, Star Tribune columnist Mother: Rose (Heuberger) Klobuchar, teacher Marriage: John Bessler (1993-present) Children: Abigail Education: Yale University, B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, 1982; University of Chicago Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, 1985 Religion: Congregationalist (United Church of Christ) Her last name is pronounced KLOW-buh-shar.

The primary purpose of Veterans Day is to honor those who have served in the U.S. armed forces.Most, like a former Chicagoan named Red Madsen, have come home from wars to lead ordinary lives.Not that their lives are the same as they would have been if they hadn't seen the bloodshed, the shattered lives, the lonely deaths.

Attorney Benjamin Crump has been at the forefront of some of the highest-profile cases involving civil rights and racial injustice but acknowledges there's much more work to be done.While accepting the Social Justice Impact Award at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night, Crump vowed never to stop fighting racism and discrimination.

I sometimes feel I'm in a daily struggle not to become a shallower version of myself.The first driver of shallowization is technology, the way it shrinks attention span, fills the day with tempting distractions.The second driver is the politicization of everything.Like a lot of people, I spend too much of my time enmeshed in politics the predictable partisan outrages, the campaign horse race analysis, the Trump scandal du jour.

I sometimes feel I'm in a daily struggle not to become a shallower version of myself.The first driver of shallowization is technology, the way it shrinks attention span, fills the day with tempting distractions.The second driver is the politicization of everything.Like a lot of people, I spend too much of my time enmeshed in politics the predictable partisan outrages, the campaign horse race analysis, the Trump scandal du jour.

National test results released in September 2022 show unprecedented losses in math and reading scores since the pandemic disrupted schooling for millions of children.In response, educational leaders and policymakers across the country are eager to reverse these trends and catch these students back up to where they would have been.

Members of the Church of England General Synod pray ahead of a vote that ultimately approved blessings for same-sex couples in London on Thursday.Leon Neal/Getty Images After two days of divisive debate, the Church of England voted on Thursday to offer blessings to same-sex couples but clergy members can opt not to use the prayers, and the church will maintain its ban on same-sex marriage.