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With the Governor’s signature, Connecticut follows California, Maryland and New York to become the 4th state in the nation to enact this innovative, lifesaving policy. The law holds gun manufacturers accountable for design features that allow their products to be easily modified with common household tools and a $25 piece of plastic into illegal weapons of war capable of firing up to 1,200 rounds per minute—or 20 rounds per second. Nationally, ATF data shows that recoveries of these conversion devices increased by 784% between 2019 and 2023.

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The deaths have revealed holes in treatment and oversight across ICE’s system, where the detained population has spiked by 50% to 60,000 during Trump’s second term.

Five died in centers run by longtime ICE detention partners CoreCivic and the GEO Group. A sixth died at a camp operated by an inexperienced contractor that ICE has since replaced. Three died in jails run by sheriffs, and one at a federal prison.

“AN OPEN LETTER TO CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INCOMING CEO BIRGIT GIRSHICK Dear Ms. Girshick, My name is Chip. I am a dog walker from Sterling, Massachusetts — twenty minutes from your facility at 55–57 Union Street in Worcester. I am not a scientist. I am not a lobbyist. I am just a man who loves animals. l was troubled recently when I found out what was happening to dogs and other animals inside this location just a short drive from my front door. “

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“The documents given to parents sometimes used nebulous language and left key questions open-ended. They stated that the footage would’ve been used to “develop and evaluate AI models for assessing classroom interaction quality,” and that the “video data may be processed using cloud-based AI services.” But they didn’t specify what AI models or what AI companies would be involved.

Thorny questions abounded. What about the parent of a child who didn’t give consent? Would only they be blurred out in the footage? How would that realistically work? The documents only said the researchers would censor faces and names “whenever possible,” but that meant your child was still being filmed.”

When I was 8m pregnant & sleeping a tree fell on our house leaving us displaced. I went on to find a rental & have our baby. The following 18m were pure hell. Dealing with a hostile insurance company, rebuilding a home & being financially strapped. By time my LO was 19m we were settled into a new home.

Recently, my now 3 y/o, has asked on a handful of occasions if “a tree fell on our/your home?” We never told them about the tree. I assume they heard us talk about it but they were so young, I’m still surprised.

My question is what’s the best way to approach answering? We currently keep our tone neutral & answers simple. “Yes, a tree fell on our home a few years ago” or “yes, it did”.

It was a very traumatic experience. We’ve been in a lot of therapy but of course it still feels sensitive to us so we don’t want to traumatize her or make her worry. TYIA!

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A model who was trafficked from Uzbekistan and sent to Epstein, identifying herself only by her first name Roza, told the committee how she was assaulted by Epstein over a three-year period in which he was supposed to have been serving a prison sentence for sex offences.

Roza said she was brought to the US aged 18 on a talent visa secured by a model agency with connections to Epstein and his associate, the late French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel.

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Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime executive assistant, scheduled "massages" and coordinated dozens of flights around the world for victims of the disgraced convicted sex trafficker, recently released Department of Justice documents show.

But it remains unknown whether the Connecticut resident knew about Epstein's sexual assaults, which one victim said once happened just on the other side of a closed door from where Groff was working.

From article: The chemicals blew through the air, sometimes for blocks. They seeped into bedrooms, forcing an asthmatic teen to gasp for air. They stuck to the skin of a young girl, who cried, “It burns!” They caused an infant to stop breathing.