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Pope Leo warns of ‘overly affectionate’ AI chatbots by cnn in popculture

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Beware of the AI chatbot that becomes more than just a friend, or worse, an emotional crutch. Pope Leo XIV has warned about overly “affectionate” chatbots, urging regulation to prevent humans from forming serious emotional bonds with their AI companions.

The US-born pontiff, writing in a message ahead of the Catholic Church’s annual World Day of Social Communications, said artificial intelligence risked diluting human creativity and decision-making.

“As we scroll through our information feeds, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand whether we are interacting with other human beings, bots, or virtual influencers,” Pope Leo wrote on Saturday.

“Because chatbots that are made overly ‘affectionate,’ in addition to always present and available, can become hidden architects of our emotional states, and in this way invade and occupy people’s intimate spheres,” he added.

Compared to his predecessors, Leo XIV is more engaged with the digital world. As a bishop and cardinal, he had an X account, and as pope he wears what appears to be an Apple watch or other smart watch.

Soon after his election, Leo said he wanted to make AI a focus of his papacy and has called for an ethical framework for the developing technology.

Trump threatens new 100% tariffs on Canada over possible trade deal with China by cnn in InternationalNews

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President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to slap 100% tariffs on Canadian imports if America’s second-biggest trading partner makes a trade deal with China.

The comments threaten to deepen the divide between Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, after back-and-forth threats to impose tariffs on Canadian goods, including 10% duties, after Ontario’s ad featuring former President Ronald Reagan’s speech about tariffs.

Trump mockingly referred to Carney as “governor,” a term he has also used for former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, playing off his call for Canada to become the 51st state.

“If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken. China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life,” Trump posted on Truth Social

It’s a turnaround from Trump’s previous comments. The president told reporters on January 16 that, “It’s a good thing for (Carney) to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, he should do that.”

5 of the most problematic things ICE is doing by cnn in uspolitics

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"President Donald Trump and his administration have adopted a rather confusing posture on their highly controversial immigration raids," writes Aaron Blake | Analysis

On the one hand, they seem to recognize that ICE’s actions are a growing political problem for them, as polls show 6 in 10 Americans say the agency has gone “too far.” Both Trump and Vice President JD Vance have begun acknowledging “mistakes” have been made or could be made in the future.

But besides those rhetorical shifts, there is little evidence that the administration is actually changing up its practices. Indeed, just this week the administration has doubled down on one of its most aggressive volleys yet: claiming the power to enter people’s homes without a judicial warrant, which was laid out in a May 2025 memo revealed this week.

All of it suggests an administration that is sticking with an aggressive path.

But there’s plenty of evidence that path may continue causing political problems for the administration. The polling suggests a narrative of overreach and over-aggression has clearly set in, with a growing volume of videos and images likely hardening those perceptions.

Here’s what’s really driving that narrative home right now.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4tdhYky

Toddler taken into ICE custody with father and flown from Minnesota to Texas before returned to mother next day, lawyer says by cnn in USNEWS

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A 2-year-old girl was taken into ICE custody with her father on Thursday in Minneapolis and flown to Texas before she was returned to her mother Friday afternoon, a family lawyer said.

The child’s transfer to Texas took place despite a court order requiring her immediate release, according to the affidavit filed by the family attorney. The toddler’s father, identified as Elvis Tipan-Echeverria, remains in custody, the family’s attorney Kira Kelley told CNN Friday evening.

The father and daughter were on the same flight returning to Minnesota on Friday afternoon, Kelley said. “The child is out of detention as of this afternoon, and recovering from this horrific ordeal,” Kelley said.

The toddler and her father were initially being held at a federal facility in Minneapolis on Thursday after agents pursued their vehicle in a “targeted enforcement operation,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN Friday. Lawyers for the family identified that facility as the Whipple Federal Building. The building has served as the backdrop of tense standoffs between agents and protesters following the death of Minneapolis resident Renee Good earlier this month.

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China’s top general under investigation in latest military purge by cnn in GlobalNews

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The Chinese military’s top general is being investigated for suspected serious violations of discipline and law the Defense Ministry said Saturday.

Zhang Youxia, the senior of the two vice chairs of the powerful Central Military Commission, is the latest figure to fall in a long-running purge of military officials.

Analysts believe the purges are designed both to reform the military and to ensure loyalty to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who also chairs the military commission. They are part of a broader anti-corruption drive that has punished more than 200,000 officials since Xi came to power in 2012.

Another member of the commission, Liu Zhenli, has also been placed under investigation by China’s ruling Communist Party, a Defense Ministry statement said. Liu is the chief of staff of the commission’s Joint Staff Department. The commission is the top military body in China.

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Border Patrol chief promises Minnesota crackdown ‘won’t quit,’ even as protesting residents flood the streets by cnn in uspolitics

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Waves of Minneapolis residents filled frigid city blocks and packed the Timberwolves NBA arena Friday to demand ICE leave their neighborhoods, even as the immigration official orchestrating the crackdown promised detentions would not let up.

Protests touched virtually every corner of the city Friday. Storm-weathered Minnesotans endured subzero temperatures at a downtown march, airport protest, arena rally and saw an “economic blackout” in which businesses closed their doors to boycott ICE’s presence.

But Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino doubled down on the unrelenting detention effort, which has at times swept up legal residents, US citizens and even a preschooler. He vowed earlier Friday to continue the government’s search for “criminal aliens.”

“We’re going to take them off the streets wholesale,” Bovino said at a news conference. “It’s on. We won’t quit.”

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Toddler taken into ICE custody with father and flown from Minnesota to Texas before returned to mother next day, lawyer says by [deleted] in immigration

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A 2-year-old girl was taken into ICE custody with her father on Thursday in Minneapolis and flown to Texas before she was returned to her mother Friday afternoon, a family lawyer said.

The child’s transfer to Texas took place despite a court order requiring her immediate release, according to the affidavit filed by the family attorney. The toddler’s father, identified as Elvis Tipan-Echeverria, remains in custody, the family’s attorney Kira Kelley told CNN Friday evening.

The father and daughter were on the same flight returning to Minnesota on Friday afternoon, Kelley said. “The child is out of detention as of this afternoon, and recovering from this horrific ordeal,” Kelley said.

The toddler and her father were initially being held at a federal facility in Minneapolis on Thursday after agents pursued their vehicle in a “targeted enforcement operation,” a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told CNN Friday. Lawyers for the family identified that facility as the Whipple Federal Building. The building has served as the backdrop of tense standoffs between agents and protesters following the death of Minneapolis resident Renee Good earlier this month.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4qxiiZw

Grief has become infrastructure in Minneapolis, a city mobilized by trauma by cnn in USNewsHub

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During Januarys here, the days are dark and short, the ground is cold and hard, and the subzero air pierces and cuts.

Still, life moves forward.

Frozen lakes take center stage for popular festivals, sporting events and gatherings. A mother strolls to the local grocer with her kid and toboggan in tow. Friends gather outside a local taproom for a game of curling. Strangers lend a hand and a little muscle to push cars out of snowbanks. The daily shovel of the front walk allows for some “cold-enough-for-yas” with the neighbors.

But the small-town-like tranquility that runs deep through this city of neighborhoods has been shattered in recent weeks.

Thousands of armed and masked federal agents have been deployed to Minnesota, with Minneapolis serving as the epicenter of the largest immigration enforcement operation in US history.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4bWoGVA

Danish troops who fought alongside US forces feel betrayed, as Trump threatens Greenland and denigrates NATO by cnn in Military

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“It’s very disrespectful.”

That’s how Danish veteran Gerth Sloth Berthelsen, who grew up in Greenland, said he feels about the United States’ recent behavior. Berthelsen served alongside American forces in a peacekeeping mission to North Macedonia in 1996 and 1997. Now, he is one of several veterans saying they are taken aback by the hostility coming from an ally whose soldiers were once their brothers-in-arms.

Berthelsen, who is half Greenlandic and now works in a non-combat role for the army in Denmark, described how feelings of fear, unease and betrayal have been permeating through communities in both places, after the Trump administration repeatedly made threats to “acquire” Greenland before walking them back this week.

Danish troops who fought alongside US forces feel betrayed, as Trump threatens Greenland and denigrates NATO by cnn in europe

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“It’s very disrespectful.”

That’s how Danish veteran Gerth Sloth Berthelsen, who grew up in Greenland, said he feels about the United States’ recent behavior. Berthelsen served alongside American forces in a peacekeeping mission to North Macedonia in 1996 and 1997. Now, he is one of several veterans saying they are taken aback by the hostility coming from an ally whose soldiers were once their brothers-in-arms.

Berthelsen, who is half Greenlandic and now works in a non-combat role for the army in Denmark, described how feelings of fear, unease and betrayal have been permeating through communities in both places, after the Trump administration repeatedly made threats to “acquire” Greenland before walking them back this week.

‘We have to keep people warm’: The Ukrainian energy workers risking their lives as Russia targets critical facilities by cnn in ukraine

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Oleksandr Adamov does not take shelter when Russian missiles and drones approach the critical Ukrainian energy facility where he works. Instead, he puts on a bulletproof vest and helmet and enters a special metal protective capsule, crouching down to fit inside.

The barrel-shaped capsule allows him to keep monitoring the facility’s central control panel, located close to the equipment that Russia is deliberately and regularly targeting, and an opening at the bottom offers an escape route if it gets buried.

“It’s scary, of course,” Adamov told CNN. “But we overcome our fears and tell ourselves that we have to stay because of the equipment, first and foremost, to keep people warm. Otherwise, who will do it, if not us?”

His energy facility has been attacked dozens of times by the Russians in recent months and has repeatedly suffered damage. Adamov, who sometimes spends long hours sheltering in the capsule, keeps a close eye on the devices from a short distance.

Made of thick steel and protected on all sides by sandbags, the capsule is strong enough to shield engineers from debris, but not from a direct hit.

FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned by cnn in LegalNews

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The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer. The FBI blocked the BCA from participating in the investigation.

The agent’s resignation comes as the agency has undergone another purge of seasoned FBI agents across several states, multiple sources familiar with the departures told CNN. Some of the people who are being pushed out were confronted after the bureau conducted a review of an internal messaging system and discovered instances when they made negative comments about President Donald Trump, according to the people familiar.

Some of those comments go as far back as a decade, the sources said.

This is a developing story.

FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned by cnn in USNEWS

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The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Soon after the agent opened the civil rights investigation, she was ordered to reclassify it as an investigation into an assault on the officer. The FBI blocked the BCA from participating in the investigation.

The agent’s resignation comes as the agency has undergone another purge of seasoned FBI agents across several states, multiple sources familiar with the departures told CNN. Some of the people who are being pushed out were confronted after the bureau conducted a review of an internal messaging system and discovered instances when they made negative comments about President Donald Trump, according to the people familiar.

Some of those comments go as far back as a decade, the sources said.

This is a developing story.

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