Devin Brosnan, one of the two Atlanta police officers charged in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks, has not agreed to be a witness for the prosecution, his lawyer said on Thursday, contradicting an assertion by the lead prosecutor on the case.

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Facebook Inc said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organized hate.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dealt President Donald Trump a major setback on his hardline immigration policies, blocking his bid to end a program that protects from deportation hundreds of thousands of immigrants - often called "Dreamers" - who entered the United States illegally as children.

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Mexico's foreign ministry said on Thursday it would monitor the continuity of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program in the United States after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump's bid to abolish it.

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The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted to confirm a federal judge who is a protege of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to an influential appeals court in Washington.

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Former top White House aide John Bolton delivered a damning indictment of his former boss, saying Donald Trump's behavior in office and dealings with foreign leaders showed he was unfit to be president of the United States.

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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday revelations in a book by a former top White House aide show President Donald Trump is unfit and unprepared to be president and Democrats will continue oversight of the Republican president's behavior.

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Juneteenth, an annual U.S. holiday on June 19, has taken on greater significance this year following nationwide protests over police brutality and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks and other African Americans.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 5-4 against President Donald Trump's move to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that offers work permits and deportation relief to certain immigrants who came to the country illegally as children.

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Electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc wants to start building a large vehicle assembly plant in the southwestern United States as early as the third quarter of this year, the company told Texas officials in documents made public this week.

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Preferential economic treatment ends and Chinese officials face the threat of sanctions.

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Nearly every country will see their populations fall as the world has fewer babies.

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China's ambassador to the UK hits out at the move to exclude Huawei from Britain's 5G networks.

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With no clear path to reopening, New York's boxing gyms fear they may never return after the pandemic.

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Maskless Florida activists support a restaurant owner's decision to not require face coverings.

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A BBC investigation exposes chronic failures in the health system in one of the poorest areas.

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The 87-year-old undergoes a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent in Baltimore's hospital.

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With the short-video app already banned in India, Sophia Smith Galer looks at whether the UK or the US could be next.

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The Democratic presidential candidate says "let's not waste any more time" as he outlines $2tn plan.

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The British socialite denies grooming underage girls for the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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80 among newly TUPE'd workforce may face redundancy, say insiders

UK retailer the John Lewis Partnership continued its "digital transformation" this week by confirming another batch of staff are to be ejected into the arms of outsourcing giant Capgemini.?

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Marian Rejewski's cyclometer recreated in hardware for first time in decades

A Cambridge post-graduate student has recreated the ?cyclometer?, the decryption device devised by Polish mathematicians that informed Alan Turing?s later code-breaking efforts.?

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Boffins find flaws in the way software engineering hopefuls are sifted

People applying for software engineering positions at companies are often asked to solve problems on a whiteboard, under the watchful eye of an interviewer, as a way to assess technical problem solving skills.?

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New family can wrangle 2TB of RAM, has bandwidth to burn, makes single-socket beefy PCs sing

AMD has revealed a new range of microprocessors intended for use in workstations.?

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Says third party holding some business contact information has had trouble but its own infrastructure remains safe

Citrix has taken the unusual step of rebutting dark web discourse that alleges its networks have been compromised.?

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Contractors look to have copped it as offshore utilisation rates grew

Wipro?s new CEO Thierry Delaporte has offered some initial insights into his plans for the services giant.?

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Seeing as finance is Hong Kong's thing and that industry needs lots of security kit, this could be scary

US President Trump has signed an order to end Hong Kong's special status, meaning that restrictions on high-tech exports to mainland China now apply to the Special Administrative Region as well.?

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Spoiler alert: Cable companies are ripping Americans off

Proposed changes to the way the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) measures broadband availability across America can?t come soon enough ? as the state of Georgia has made plain.?

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You'll want to patch that ? and all these other bugs fixed by Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, VMware, SAP, Google

Mega Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday patched a wormable hole in its Windows Server software that can be exploited remotely to completely commandeer the machine without any authorization. It was one of hundreds of security bugs squashed today by Redmond along with Oracle, Adobe, VMware, SAP and Google.?

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CDC director is worried but says it's not too late to turn things around.

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Biden calls for massive investment to hit climate change, jobs crisis at same time.

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17-year-old DNS flaw requires no user interaction and may be exploited soon.

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NVMe SSDs, APIs, and texture slicing help make up the "Velocity Architecture."

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ICE policy withdrawn after lawsuit, letting international students remain in US.

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Microsoft and Kano teamed up to battle ChromeOS with a cheap Windows 10 tablet.

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See live pictures of OnePlus' next smartphone.

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UK said US sanctions on Huawei threaten security of equipment, necessitating ban.

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The scene most likely shows the city on September 3 or 4, 1659 (or earlier), at 8am.

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The store's too big to cover in cameras, so shoppers can wheel them around instead.

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