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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The attacker is said to have walked on to the university campus on Monday morning and started shooting.

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Crews searching for the missing Florida woman have found a body in a national park, the FBI says.

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Canadians are voting on Monday and Justin Trudeau's party faces a stiff challenge to retain power.

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Netflix's royal drama and Apple's comedy series swept the drama and comedy prizes at Sunday's event.

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America's two decades in Afghanistan impacted those who served - and the families waiting at home.

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A Rwandan court finds Paul Rusesabagina guilty of supporting a terrorist group.

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The pro-Kremlin United Russia wins a parliamentary majority, but loses some ground.

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Hundreds of would-be immigrants camped under a bridge on the US-Mexico border are returned to Haiti.

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Douyin users aged under 14 will be limited to 40 minutes a day on the platform.

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Paris is angry after Australia cancelled a submarine contract in favour of a deal with the UK and US.

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Most users better off with rolling release, but quarterly build has more quality testing

Kali Linux version 2021.3 has been released with new tools, though its makers explain that some features which make it good for penetration testing also make it bad for general use.?

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4 stars - did not warn us about 'digitalisation of the economy'*

Britain's tow-headed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been granted an audience with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, during which he will discuss the ?challenges? of taxing giant tech corporations in a digital economy.?

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Plus: US lawmakers get 'in touch with Facebook whistleblower'

Facebook has hit back at a series of reports in the Wall Street Journal as it tries to counter a week of damaging headlines which lifted the lid on the inner workings of the social media biz.?

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Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey

Less than a third of German-speaking SAP users think the global application vendor is doing a good job of getting its software to work in the cloud.?

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The environmental impact, not the smoking crater made by an impact

SpaceX took another step towards launching the orbital version of its Starship last week with the release of a Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (DPEA) from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).?

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The Register dips another toe in the Flow

While browser-makers squabble over standards, privacy and exactly what their User-Agent string should say, Ekioh's clean-room browser, Flow, has continued to quietly advance.?

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According to a filing with Brit competition watchdog

Any attempt to block Cellnex's takeover of Hutchison UK's tower network could see consumers "significantly worse off" and hamper the progress of Three UK's planned £3bn investment in 5G.?

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Honour thy ancestors, and move on

Column The death of Sir Clive Sinclair at the end of last week has seen an outburst of nostalgia. Understandably so.?

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Flatpak-only app store, two-finger swiping for screen-fondlers... but it's not for the fiddlers

Review The elementary OS team recently released its first major update in nearly three years, elementary OS 6, or "Odin" as this release is known. Odin is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and as you would imagine for an update three years in the making, brings a slew of changes.?

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When a server crash became a motorway dash

Who, Me? The best laid plans of mice or Register readers can founder on the rocks of iffy connectors and wobbly cables, as this week's entrant in the Who, Me? archives discovered.?

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Microsoft's next Surface devices will be officially unveiled on September 22.

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"We have interest for both Dragons and Starships, which is pretty exciting."

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Roku is focused on improving the search and audio experience for users.

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Scraped WHOIS data of NON-Epik customers also exposed in the 180 GB leak.

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Learn to process thousands of items reliably and repeatably in this installment.

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Climate change is driving more days that are hot, dry, and windy

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Nahoft uses encryption to turn chats into a random jumble of words.

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One case in Turkey cuts to the heart of the search giant?s power.

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Valve's championship is the latest gaming event to implement strict pandemic rules.

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The committee roundly rejected approving boosters for everyone 16 and up.

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