Police in Senatobia, Mississippi, used tear gas on protesters outside a Walmart Tuesday night. Lauren Turman reports from outside the store, where people were protesting the shooting death by police of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. Updates at: localmemphis.com/article/new…

‼️@MarshaBlackburn will soon introduce a bill encompassing her deal with the White House to pass kids’ safety legislation in exchange for preempting state AI laws. This could be Republicans’ last chance before midterms to pass legislation to protect kids online and defend their claim of being the pro-family party. Read all about the battle over kids' online safety👇 dailysignal.com/2026/06/17/l…

ICE has revised its rules to say that detainees who work in custody aren't even required to get $1 per day, after a request from private prison giant Geo Group. Geo Group also asked ICE to remove lines saying contractors needed to follow state and local laws around the treatment of detainees, asked ICE amend language to support its legal position in these cases, and asked that the standards specify that detainees are not employees of the facilities where they work. In addition to removing the dollar per day minimum, ICE's new national standards complied with several of Geo Group's other requests, for instance the document now says detainees are not employees “and are not entitled to wages or benefits under applicable wage laws or labor regulations.” washingtonpost.com/business/…

JUST IN: UK hospital worker accused of trying to sell Princess Kate’s medical records.

New video breaking down why the U.S. is a dictatorship of capital where both parties serve capital not people. The system was designed to exploit us, not save or serve us. That is why if we want change we have to save ourselves by building power in our workplaces and communities.

'The road to Unreal Engine 6' - unrealengine.com/news/the-ro… "for UE6, we see LLMs, generative  AI models, and tools like Claude and Codex playing a central role in helping you build content faster while maintaining the creative control you need."

Age verification started with porn and social media. Now, governments are passing laws requiring operating systems to collect your age before you can use your computer at all. pcmag.com/explainers/your-pc…

Trust in news hits a new low, research suggests bbc.in/4uFL0Zz

BREAKING: Iran and the US have officially signed the MOU electronically. Both Pezeshkian and Trump signed the English and Persian texts as official documents, putting it into immediate effect, per Tasnim and Reuters citing US officials.

24 conservative groups back my SAFE for Kids Act. When nearly 80% of underage children have been exposed to adult content online, commonsense safeguards are needed NOW!

Diddy's prison sentence has been reduced once again, moving his release date up from April 15, 2028 to February 23, 2028.

🔔ICYMI: A controversial deal in the U.S. could fundamentally rewrite internet freedom as we know it. The congressional deal would trade the deregulation of artificial intelligence for unprecedented federal censorship powers. A high-stakes compromise is quietly brewing in Washington as the White House negotiates with congressional leaders to fundamentally reshape the digital landscape. Under the proposed deal reported by Axios, the federal government would strip states of their authority to regulate artificial intelligence—effectively halting progressive state-level efforts to hold tech companies accountable and restrict energy-heavy AI data centers. In exchange, lawmakers would push through three major federal censorship bills: the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and a federal online age verification mandate. While framed as common-sense protections for minors, civil liberties advocates warn these measures represent an unprecedented expansion of federal control over online speech. The backlash to this legislative trade-off cuts across typical political lines. Even conservative-backed organizations like the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) have issued stark warnings, declaring that the package would dismantle the internet as we know it by empowering the Federal Trade Commission to dictate acceptable online speech. Opponents argue that enforcing these rules would effectively eliminate online anonymity, while giving the administration an incredibly powerful tool to censor dissenting political views and control what users see on major platforms like Instagram. As the White House maneuvers to secure congressional backing, Americans are left facing a troubling dilemma: the long-sought-after regulation of big tech and AI may come at the direct cost of their fundamental constitutional rights to free expression. Source: Wilkins, J. (2026). Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet. Futurism.

🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards

Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."

Les réseaux sociaux bientôt interdits aux moins de 15 ans en France ? Emmanuel Macron espère "fermer les comptes" d'ici "la fin de l'année" s.rtl.fr/iN5I0

State officials have found they are using six high-risk AI-like systems. One year ago, they reported using zero. Here's what the systems are used for: cal.news/3Qq7fEL

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xai in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing, more here wired.com/story/doj-lawyers-…

Donald Trump criticises Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to fighting with Hezbollah: “Too many people are being killed. You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those houses and they’re not all Hezbollah.”

🚨 Pregnancy related deaths in Texas have jumped 56% since abortion was banned.