Even though Angie Romero is busy running a business in the heart of Little Tokyo, she took a few hours off on Monday to get trained as a legal observer to document immigration operations throughout ...

Due to inclement weather and to keep our employees safe, there will be no print edition of the Observer-Reporter today. Our subscribers can still read the Jan. 26 newspaper through the e-edition, ...

Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer's car. When she asks why he's doing that, he says, "Because we have a ...

In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in ...

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Sam Altman is adding a brain-computer interface startup to his growing portfolio of startups outside of OpenAI. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Co-founded by Altman, Merge is a brain-computer interface ...

Just when you thought the circular deals couldn’t get any more circular, OpenAI has invested in CEO Sam Altman’s brain computer interface (BCI) startup Merge Labs. Merge Labs, which defines itself as ...

After the shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal officer was captured on camera by community members on the scene, the debate over the events has continued. In the wake of this, many are ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained Brandon Siguenza, a U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis, according to social media posts. The posts claimed that while ...

JDK 27, due in September, kicks off with a post-quantum hybrid key exchange proposal to bolster the security of network communications. Java Development Kit (JDK) 27, a release of standard Java ...

A U.S. Border Patrol officer threatened to arrest a legal observer in Key Largo, Florida, today for following the officer, video of the encounter posted on Instagram shows. The video is another ...

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