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President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, marking the first piece of legislation to become law in his second administration.

“This horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen,” Trump told reporters ahead of signing the legislation. “And as president, I’m fighting every single day to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.”

The measure, which advanced through the House and Senate in January, directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft-related crimes, or those accused of assaulting a police officer.

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January 26-February 1, 2025, we’ll be raising awareness about school choice through tens of thousands of events with schools, organizations, and parents around the country.

The results are in! 60% of U.S. parents considered sending their children to a different school last year. Dive into this year’s survey results to get a better look at what factors are driving these decisions.

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SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hive, a leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions including content moderation models used by hundreds of leading online communities, today announced a partnership with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK-based nonprofit dedicated to stopping child sexual abuse online.

“During 2024, KICK processed approximately 5 billion chat messages and 900 million frames of livestreamed video through Hive’s model. This enabled us to enhance our existing real-time moderation capabilities and scale our overall safety program”

As part of the partnership, Hive will integrate IWF datasets into its content moderation offering for all customers using Hive’s models to analyze text in messages or overlaid on video and images. The IWF datasets include the IWF’s URL List, a continuously updated list averaging more than 8,000 webpages a day with confirmed images and videos of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), as well as the IWF Keywords List, a unique list of words, phrases, and codes offenders may use to conceal child sexual abuse imagery on legitimate networks and platforms. Users of Hive’s video and image moderation APIs who are or become IWF members will also be able to access IWF’s “hashes,” unique digital fingerprints of millions of known child sexual abuse images and videos, to identify criminal content and prevent it from being shared on their platforms.

“With the emergence and accessibility of generative AI technology, it is easier than ever before for bad actors to create and distribute harmful online content, including CSAM,” said Kevin Guo, Co-founder and CEO of Hive. “Hive’s AI models for content moderation provide a scalable way to manage moderation risks generally, and our partnership with the IWF allows us to further expand the role we are playing in specifically helping our customers protect the safety and wellbeing of children.”

Hive’s AI content moderation solution has become trusted by hundreds of online platforms to protect users and human moderators from exposure to sexual content, violence and gore, drugs, hate speech, and other categories of harmful content. Hive’s partnership with the IWF bolsters Hive’s capabilities in helping its customers detect and mitigate CSAM on their platforms through a single integrated API.

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A new Tennessee bill could require tattoo artists to get training on recognizing the signs of human trafficking and responding to them.

Tattoos are among the tools traffickers use to assert control over their victims using symbols, names or phrases that brand a person as property, according to Thistle Farms, a Tennessee nonprofit group that works to help women recover and heal from prostitution, human trafficking and addiction.

If approved, the Hope of Ink Act would require all tattoo artists and operators to complete up to a one-hour online or in-person training at no cost in order to obtain a license.

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The House of Representatives passed a Senate-revised version of the Laken Riley Act Wednesday, sending the first piece of significant legislation to President Trump’s desk for his expected signature.

Lawmakers voted 263–156 to approve the Senate-amended version of the bill dedicated to slain jogger Laken Riley, who was viciously strangled and beaten to death in February 2024 by an illegal immigrant charged with multiple past crimes.

Forty-six Democrats backed passage of the Laken Riley Act, while 13 did not vote. Among the Dems who supported the revised measure were New York Reps. Tom Suozzi, Laura Gillen, John Mannion, Joe Morelle and Ritchie Torres.

“Today we’re going to send to President Trump’s desk his very first bill to sign into law,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporters Wednesday.

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It’s about time. Finally. Protect our children. #onepillkills