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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Joe Biden says President Putin was "not joking" when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons.

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Three years into the crisis, China's pandemic response is exhausting its population.

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As part of a new series, we explore whether Norway has a solution for the US and its ageing leaders.

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Researchers in British Columbia discovered a shocking sight when they walked to the creek.

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Officials are lying about how 16-year-old protester Nika Shakarami died, her mother says.

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The move brings President Biden closer to his campaign pledge to decriminalise recreational cannabis.

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Police say the brothers planned the rampage together, but one killed the other for reasons that remain unclear.

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Federal agents investigating the US president's son believe they have evidence of tax crimes.

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Zachary Cruz's "mental incapacity" was exploited by a Virginia couple who gave him a home, say police.

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Many of the enigmatic stone-carved statues are "totally charred" according to local authorities.

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The Great Unresignation as inflation forces hordes of retirees back into work

A sustained upswing in the cost of living is forcing hundreds of thousands of retirees across Britain to reconsider a return to the workplace.?

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They probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert

Only a third of PostgreSQL databases connected to the internet use SSL for encrypted messaging, according to a cloud database provider.?

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But we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for

Systems Approach Some might say there's a possibility QUIC will start to replace TCP. This week I want to argue that QUIC is actually solving a different problem than that solved by TCP, and so should be viewed as something other than a TCP replacement.?

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They can't be any worse than some human developers

Machine-learning models that power next-gen code-completion tools like GitHub Copilot can help software developers write more functional code, without making it less secure.?

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What?s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that?s what

On Call As another working week ebbs away into history, dispel any thoughts that your efforts have made no mark in history by wallowing in other readers? misery in another instalment of On-Call, The Register?s weekly tale of being asked to fix the ridiculous and absurd.?

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Kieren's here to chew bubblegum and kick Nominet ass. And he's all out of bubblegum

Former Register journo Kieren McCarthy was this week elected to the board of Nominet, the domain registry in charge of the .uk name space.?

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Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart

Three US national security agencies - CISA, the FBI and the NSA - on Thursday issued a joint advisory naming the 20 infosec exploited by state-sponsored Chinese threat actors since 2020.?

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Meanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they?ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street

E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com has stopped work on its ?Scout? parcel delivery robots.?

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Q3 revenue still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St

AMD has warned investors its guidance for quarterly revenue was out by $1.1 billion.?

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Two Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says...

SpaceX has dropped off another four astronauts at the International Space Station, their Dragon capsule successfully docking just now with the orbiting lab.?

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VR hasn't taken over the world, but that doesn't mean it has failed.

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Also, the Ariane 6 rocket is inching closer to the launch pad.

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The AMD-based Swift Edge is bigger and OLED-ier than the Intel-based Swift ultralight.

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Musk asked judge to cancel trial, claiming Twitter won't "take yes for an answer."

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Stolen data includes names, email addresses, console IDs, and gamertags.

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Plus, SteamOS 3.3.2 claims to improve the experience with third-party docks.

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Open letter cites concerns about misuse of "widely available" commercial robots among the public.

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Meta, Snap, and Discord are also defendants in the lawsuit.

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Illumination's changes to familiar Mushroom Kingdom characters are finally confirmed.

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The criminalization of marijuana is a "failed approach," Biden said.

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