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A jury in Malta acquitted businessman Yorgen Fenech in the prosecution over the 2017 car-bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
The verdict ends one prosecution but leaves Malta responsible for preserving the journalism, testimony, inquiry records, and evidence needed to examine the killing and its institutional aftermath.
The IRS sharply reduced its auditing staff last year, and an inspector general report found that collections produced by enforcement efforts subsequently fell.
Revenue left uncollected can outweigh payroll savings and shift the cost toward compliant taxpayers, reduced federal services, or additional government borrowing.
The Financial Times warned that proposed SEC reporting reforms could reduce investors’ ability to compare US public companies across businesses and reporting periods.
Broken definitions or historical series would leave ordinary investors with weaker evidence while well-funded firms could purchase private data and rebuild comparisons.
Reuters reported that the FBI is investigating a claim that a data breach exposed millions of US driver’s licenses, although the reported scale and cause remain unconfirmed.
People may face years of identity fraud because birth dates, license histories, and other durable records cannot be reset as easily as passwords or payment cards.
An amended class action alleges Meta AI glasses processed data from millions of nonconsenting bystanders, while Burning Man attendees debated how to resist the devices.
People near a wearer may have no practical way to know whether their faces, bodies, voices, or personal details are being captured, reviewed, retained, or used for AI systems.
Leading US medical groups issued their own COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccine recommendations because federal guidance was absent at the start of the respiratory-virus season.
Conflicting schedules could leave clinicians, pharmacies, insurers, schools, and families working from different eligibility rules and update dates.
After Hurricane Helene killed a woman and destroyed a mobile home near Clyde, North Carolina, the owners of the repeatedly flooded mobile home park rented the same flood-prone land to new tenants.
Tenants with limited housing choices may assume a fresh home means a safer site, while weak disclosure rules and scattered flood records leave them bearing known risks of evacuation, loss and death.
The Texas State Board of Education rejected Alpha School’s charter bid, but the Texas comptroller’s office later accepted most of its private schools into the state voucher program.
Families may spend public voucher funds on an experimental school model without receiving the findings that led another part of Texas government to reject the same operator.
Israeli forces fired tear gas into a mosque in Madama near Nablus, while settlers tried to burn and vandalized the Nur al-Din Zanki Mosque in nearby Bazariya, according to Al Jazeera and Palestinian officials.
Worshippers need both mosques reopened, but removing residue, burn marks, graffiti, and damaged objects before documenting them could weaken later journalism, official complaints, and legal review.
A Pesticide Action Network-commissioned study used public data from 2006 through 2023 to estimate 402 million to 433 million acute pesticide poisonings and about 11,000 deaths among agricultural workers annually.
Weak surveillance and food prices that exclude protective equipment, treatment, and lost work leave farm workers, their families, and public health systems paying much of agriculture’s exposure cost.
Researchers studying a severe solar storm over the continental United States measured satellite-positioning errors of roughly 33 feet, large enough to disrupt autonomous transportation.
A lane-scale positioning error can expose passengers and road users to risk, while missing telemetry can prevent investigators from reconstructing how an autonomous system detected and handled it.
Talka Sada borrowed about $13 and traveled through flood-hit Nepal searching hospitals, mortuaries, and damaged districts for his missing 19-year-old son, Vinod.
Without a unified missing-person record, families must spend scarce money carrying names and photographs between agencies that may hold disconnected pieces of the same search.