Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Dave Madingley.
Search teams in western Columbia continue to find bodies in the aftermath of Monday's strong earthquake. At least 265 people are confirmed dead, nearly 3500 people were injured. The State Department says search and rescue teams from the U.S. were sent to Columbia yesterday to help.
The State Agency say the first 48 to 72 hours are most critical when it comes to finding
survivors in the rubble of collapse buildings. The Department of Homeland Security plans to equip officers from U.S. immigration and customs enforcement with gloves that can deliver electric shocks to people being arrested. As NPR's Mag Anderson reports, compliant technologies says the gloves are designed for de-escalation.
With Cory, a former New York City police officer says use of force is like a ladder. Each run gets more intense. If someone charges at you with a knife, more force might be warranted. He says it's how an agency uses a new tool that matters most.
“Any new piece of equipment that's being introduced, you have to have strong policies”
that govern its use and then you have to make sure that your people are being held accountable. The ICE has faced intense scrutiny over its use of force, including multiple fatal shootings. Some immigrant advocates worry those guardrails won't happen at the agency.
In a statement, DHS told NPR that ICE is always assessing officer needs to ensure they have
the tools to safely make arrests, compliant technologies to climb to comment, Meg Anderson and Perenuse. Attorney General Todd Blanch says fraud charges have been filed against a former employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Kyle Gassett with Troy Public Radio says the ex-employee believe she's being unfairly targeted
by the Trump administration. Heidi Byrick spent over 20 years at the SPLC, while she was there, Blanch says she funneled donor money through shell companies to informants who were embedded with Neonazi and white supremacist groups.
“The belief she was part of the effort to open bank accounts and complete fictitious company's”
names and make payments to individuals for reasons that were not accurate as described. The court filing also claims Byrick was romantically linked to an informant that received
over $1 million byrick's attorney says she willingly came to court to fight the charges
and points to her record of work to dismantle hate groups. In her testimony in Congress's investigation of January 6th. From PR News, I'm Kyle Gassett in Montgomery, Alabama. Officials at Fort Hood in Texas are investigating yesterday's deadly crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter.
It went down in a field killing both soldiers aboard. The crash sparked a wildfire that forced the evacuation of some nearby homes. This is NPR News. Three states are scheduled to execute death row inmates today, Alabama, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. Each was convicted of murder.
Each will be put to death by lethal injection. The last time three states carried out executions on the same day was in January of 2010. When prisoners were put to death in Ohio, Texas and Louisiana. Some users of the gaming video platform known as Twitch are criticizing plans by the company to use creator's video and audio content to train the parent companies AI models.
Twitch says users can opt out if they so choose. NPR's Chloe Veltman says the parent company is Amazon. In the deluge of comments that a company to video Q&A session held on the Twitch platform, many creators complained about having to opt out of having their videos used to train Amazon AI. Chief product officer Mike Minton explained the decision.
If it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in. That's honestly the answer. Twitch distributes more than 2 million hours of audio and video content daily, valuable data for improving the quality of AI models. Most major social and digital platforms turn AI model training on by default, and require
users to manually opt out. Amazon did not respond to NPR's requests for comments. Chloe Veltman and Pian use. Scientists say a new study suggests a protective vest tested on mannequins during the first Artemis moon mission could sharply reduce radiation exposure for astronauts during severe
solar storms. NASA says radiation remains one of the biggest threats to astronauts as it prepares for future moon missions. I'm Dave Madingley in Washington. Attention, a PSA from Shoreway of NPR Science Podcast.
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