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More creative uses for AIPolice have launched a criminal investigation into an officer accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) systems to "create evidential material in a number of cases".
The Derbyshire Police officer has been removed from frontline duties, pending the outcome of the investigation, said the force.
The officer is alleged to have perverted the course of justice, but no arrests have been made, said police.
A Crown Prosecution Service spokesperson said they were working with police, adding: "We are engaging with defence teams and the courts in appropriate cases."
They added: "As police inquiries continue, it would not be appropriate to comment further."
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World Cup soccer/football threadthey'll kiss anybody's ass for it
Trump wins inaugural Fifa Peace Prize
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First peachesI love this time of year, too!
I love berry season, which has started here. Been grazing on serviceberries for the last week. Bumper crop. Also looks like I'll have good raspberry and black currant crops. There was severe dieback on one of my two red gooseberry bushes, so that crop will be much smaller than usual.
Here are some tomato recipes. We need to get ready for those pups! I have tons on the vine.
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/photos/tomato-salad-recipes
Corn and tomato salad:
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Are our Chicago friends staying safe?Here's a recap of the damage. Several EF-3 tornados.
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Kennedy CenterSo they didn't have tarps up to hide what the workers were doing when they put Trump's name up there, but they did last night when they took his name down.
Waste of (more) taxpayer money.
edited to add (I missed that they used cherry pickers to put the name up back in December):
Workers spent hours Friday slowly putting up scaffolding in front of the Kennedy Center to reach the letters. Several commentators noted that when the letters were installed back in December, cherry pickers were used to do the job much quicker, leading to speculation the scaffolding was ordered to create additional delays and give Trump’s appeals more time.
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Another rollback - National ParksA US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.
In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.
“Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at national parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths,” Kelley wrote in her decision.
Alan Spears, senior director for cultural resources at the NPCA, said in a statement after the ruling: “Americans count on national parks to help us understand our full, rich history. Stories of triumph and tragedy alike deserve to be told out loud at parks.”
Emily Thompson, executive director of the Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, a fellow plaintiff in the suit, echoed the sentiment. National parks “exist to preserve and interpret the full American story, not just the parts that make some politicians comfortable. This ruling will help ensure that remains the case,” she said in a statement.
The Trump administration has 21 days to comply with the order.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/12/judge-national-park-trump-displays
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Kennedy CenterMan, they don't miss a beat, do they?
In a last-ditch effort to halt the judge’s order, the Kennedy Center sought to block it late Thursday. The judge denied that request Friday, hours before the deadline for removing Trump’s name.
In a filing to a federal appeals court seeking to block the judge’s order, the center argued for the first time that taking Trump’s name off the building would result in having to return hundreds of millions of dollars that the center has raised for renovations due to a previously unannounced change to the center’s bylaws.
“All of this money, hundreds of millions of dollars, will have to be immediately returned, or not received by the Center,” the filing said.
The filing said the “reason for this clause is that people and companies, who have given, or will be giving, millions of dollars to the Center were only willing to do so with the name ‘Trump’ on the Building.”
It does not say how, when or where the change was made to the center’s bylaws. The Kennedy Center did not respond to inquiries about when the changes were made and exactly how much money might be at risk.
The appeals court on Friday night denied the Kennedy Center’s request for a pause.
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Librarians on horsebackThe New Deal project that preserved Kentucky’s recipes