Friday, November 15, 2024

ARTICLES BY MARTHA MENDOZA

Senators question DOJ funding for AI-powered policing tech

CHICAGO (AP) — A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Senators question DOJ funding for AI-powered policing tech

CHICAGO (AP) — A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Senators question DOJ funding for AI-powered policing tech

CHICAGO (AP) — A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Senators question DOJ funding for AI-powered policing tech

CHICAGO (AP) — A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

How AI-powered Tech Landed Man In Jail With Scant Evidence

CHICAGO (AP) — Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight

The Biden administration is holding tens of thousands of asylum-seeking children in an opaque network of some 200 facilities that The Associated Press has learned spans two dozen states and includes five shelters with more than 1,000 children packed inside.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Resilient redwood forest a beacon of hope for California

BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. (AP) — Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park — which was almost entirely ablaze — is doing what nature does best: recovering.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

FDA: N95 masks, now plentiful, should no longer be reused

The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Resilient redwood forest a beacon of hope for California

BIG BASIN REDWOODS STATE PARK, Calif. (AP) — Eight months after a lightning siege ignited more than 650 wildfires in Northern California, the state’s oldest park — which was almost entirely ablaze — is doing what nature does best: recovering.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

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