A Houston man shot by immigration officers has become at least the eighth person to die during the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign. Federal officials said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national, was trying to flee Tuesday when he attempted to ram his vehicle into an immigration officer, who fired his weapon in self-defense. Local and state officials and immigration advocates have called for an independent investigation, noting contradictory evidence in previous fatal encounters. That includes bystander video that showed that Minneapolis nurse, Alex Pretti, appeared to be unarmed when he was fatally shot. No immigration officers have been charged in the fatal encounters including previous traffic stop shootings in Texas and Chicago.
NEW YORK – The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a legal fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry. The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft built their AI technologies using millions of news articles. At issue is whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing as an information source, siphoning off web traffic without doing the journalistic work it took to gather the news.
KYIV, Ukraine – Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems. Ukraine’s strikes on oil refineries and other infrastructure across Russia have triggered a fuel crisis with gasoline shortages and fuel rationing in multiple regions. A top Ukrainian official, meanwhile, cautioned that it could take a year or more for the country to produce Patriot interceptor missiles. The Kremlin played down the license deal and noted its appreciation of Trump’s efforts to help broker a peace deal to end the war, which Russia launched over four years ago.
Kentucky’s governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition. There’s been three weeks of silence from the 84-year-old McConnell since he was hospitalized June 14 in Washington. And that’s led to rampant speculation about McConnell’s prognosis and whether he’ll return to the Senate when it reconvenes next week. Beshear says in a letter Wednesday to the former Senate Republican leader that “Kentuckians have grown increasingly concerned about the current state of your health and well-being, and ability to hold office.” McConnell is retiring at the end of his term in January.
– The Associated Press
