NORTON, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - A northwest Kansas school district’s unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down, thanks to an effort from a group of inmates at the Norton Correctional Facility.

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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A character who is transgender. A book explaining gender identity. A story about a child trying to understand why they feel different. Information about transition. A memoir that tells a transgender person’s story.

In Alabama, those subjects are now enough to get books pushed out of library sections intended for children and teenagers.

The Alabama Public Library Service’s administrative code requires public libraries receiving state aid to keep sections for people under 18 free of material deemed obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate. Then the rule does something remarkable: it specifically declares materials regarding “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders” inappropriate for children and youth.

Those materials must be removed from youth sections and either weeded from the collection or relocated to the adult section.

In 2009, Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks company paid the estate for film rights to King’s words, along with his life rights, which allow a person or company to make content based on an individual’s story. DreamWorks has yet to produce or direct Spielberg’s planned King biopic, but the rights have caused complications for numerous filmmakers. (Neither Spielberg’s literary agent nor King’s estate returned Broadly’s request for comment.)

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Since April, over 21,000 properties across Dallas, Texas, have been photographed by these cameras and assigned a “blight score”—essentially an official tidiness grade—according to a Wednesday report from the city’s local NBC affiliate. The zip codes with the highest number of civic code violations flagged by the cameras, according to the report, were concentrated in the city’s lower-income southern quadrant. Around 1,800 “courtesy notices” have already been issued by the municipal government to the owners of lower-scoring properties: a warning to clean up their act or start paying fees.

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In 2025, AI deepfakes flooded Tinder. According to the company, 98 percent of the content-moderation actions on the app were focused on combating fake accounts, scamming, and spam, pushing the company to expand its moderation efforts for its 60 million global users.

Among current online daters in the US, nearly half have been targeted by a dating scam,

More than a dozen major dating apps and sites use face recognition to verify users, often relying on liveness checks, 3D authentication, video selfies, or biometric ID to demonstrate humanness.

Underpinning the shift, however, is a grim irony: In attempting to solve the problem of knowing whether someone is real, Big Dating is potentially creating more opportunities for privacy and security risks by forcing users to give up biometric data, while also legitimizing a culture of surveillance.

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ICE’s effort to create a national voter database is part of a much broader effort within the Department of Homeland Security and the Trump administration to undermine trust in the upcoming midterm elections. For more than a year, the Department of Justice has been seeking to create a national voter database by demanding states hand over unredacted voters rolls. States and courts, however, have pushed back.

DHS has already demanded states comply with its investigations. The agency has also said it would withhold emergency preparedness and counter terrorism funding from states who refused to implement White House policies on elections. And the agency has gone after voters directly, threatening to deport those suspected of voting illegally even when they have no criminal convictions. Despite assertions from DHS and the Trump administration, incidents of noncitizens voting are vanishingly rare, with an investigation in Georgia this week finding very few examples.

DHS also announced a new surge to investigate alleged voter fraud in certain states ahead of the midterms, to “pursue investigative leads, conduct field interviews, and support timely prosecutorial review,” according to internal DHS guidance that was first reported by CNN this week.