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Porcha Woodruff's lawsuit is the latest to zero in on facial recognition technology and its potential risks.

Black mom sues city of Detroit claiming she was falsely arrested while 8 months pregnant by officers using facial recognition technology

By Jennifer Henderson, CNN (CNN) — A Black mother is suing the city of Detroit and a Detroit Police Department detective after she was falsely arrested while eight months pregnant by officers using “an unreliable facial recognition match,” a federal lawsuit filed Thursday says. Porcha Woodruff, 32, was home around 8 a.m. on February 16,

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First responders at the scene of a helicopter crash in Riverside County

NTSB investigating a helicopter collision that left 3 dead while battling Southern California fires

CNN, KABC By Elizabeth Wolfe and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — National Transportation Safety Board investigators have begun to assess the scene where three people were killed after two helicopters collided in midair Sunday while fighting a fire in Southern California, an agency spokesperson told CNN on Monday. The helicopters were among six aircraft responding

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First responders at the scene of a helicopter crash in Riverside County

NTSB investigating a helicopter collision that left 3 dead while battling Southern California fires

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — National Transportation Safety Board investigators have begun to assess the scene where three people were killed after two helicopters collided in midair Sunday while fighting a fire in Southern California, an agency spokesperson told CNN on Monday. The helicopters were among six aircraft responding to the

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Water inundates a roadway in the Tongass National Forest in Juneau

Glacier basin flooding destroys two structures in Alaskan capital of Juneau and prompts local emergency declaration

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Record-breaking river flooding has destroyed at least two structures in Juneau, Alaska, and prompted local evacuations after a sudden outburst from a glacier-dammed lake inundated the region, officials say. City officials declared a local emergency on Sunday as the flooding made the banks of the Mendenhall

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A mother is suing Southwest Airlines for racial discrimination

White mother claims Southwest Airlines thought she was trafficking when traveling with her Black daughter, according to lawsuit

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — A mother is suing Southwest Airlines for racial discrimination, saying she was accused of human trafficking when traveling with her biracial child. Mary MacCarthy, who is White, traveled from California to Denver with her daughter, who is Black, to attend her brother’s funeral in October of 2021, according to

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