Albuquerque police refuse to say if they have stingrays, so ACLU sues

Enlarge (credit: Rescuenav) The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has sued the city of Albuquerque, seeking records by the city’s police department about its use of stingrays, also known as cell-site simulators. In May 2017, the ACLU of New Mexico filed a public records request to the Albuquerque Police Department (which has been […]

A board game you can’t refuse? The Godfather: Corleone’s Empire

Enlarge / Taking over Manhattan. (Note the various thugs who are “sleeping with the fishes” in the Hudson River.) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. Straining your voice to mimic Marlon Brando’s “make him an offer […]

Judges refuse to order fix for court software that put people in jail by mistake

Enlarge / The Supreme Court of California’s headquarters is also home to the 1st District in San Francisco. (credit: Coolcaesar) On Wednesday, a California appeals court denied efforts to overturn a county court’s decision not to intervene in an ongoing dispute between the public defender’s office and the administrative arm of the Alameda County Superior Court itself. […]

83 households refuse to evacuate from Chalcots flats due to ‘fire hazard’

Published time: 24 Jun, 2017 13:19 Edited time: 24 Jun, 2017 13:23 Scores of people have refused to be evacuated from a north-west London apartment complex identified as a fire hazard, despite the insistence of emergency services that the safety of residents cannot be guaranteed. Camden Council took the decision to evacuate 650 households from […]

One simple action Fed officials refuse to take could make their policies a lot more powerful

REUTERS/Gary Cameron There is an easy step officials at the Federal Reserve could take to improve their ability to fight the next recession, but policymakers are deeply reluctant to go there: raising the central bank’s 2% inflation target. Several prominent economists, including former President Barack Obama’s top economic advisor Jason Furman and Nobel laureate and Columbia […]

Manchester councils refuse to bury or cremate suicide bomber Salman Abedi

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi, who killed 22 people and injured over a hundred more in the Manchester Arena attack last week, will never be buried or cremated in Greater Manchester, local authorities insist. City officials said they will do “everything in their power” to stop Abedi, 22, from being buried, cremated or laid to rest […]

Measles outbreak: German kindergartens ordered to report parents who refuse vaccination advice

Published time: 26 May, 2017 13:51 German kindergartens must notify health authorities about parents who fail to prove they have been counselled on child vaccination, the Health Ministry says, ahead of a law set to be passed next week. The move comes amid a measles outbreak in Europe. Parents not complying will face fines of […]

‘The offer was too good to refuse’: A major Russian money-laundering case was unexpectedly settled in New York

Thomson Reuters A major money-laundering case set to go to trial last week in New York was suddenly settled three days earlier, with both the US government and the defendant, the Russian firm Prevezon Holdings, claiming victory.  The asset-forfeiture and money-laundering case was scheduled to begin last Monday, but it was unexpectedly settled for close to $ 6 million, […]

Counter-Strike Pros Refuse To Play After Former Cheater Joins Team

Back in 2014, Hovik “KQLY” Tovmassian was cut from a major CSGO team called Titan after he got VAC banned for using a cheat program out of competition. The team collapsed not long after. At the time, he remorsefully declared his career “over.” Now he’s back, and people aren’t happy about that. Advertisement Recently, an […]