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FCCC survey: reporting conditions in China have improved since the pandemic, but foreign journalists still face visa problems, surveillance, and harassment (Voice of America)
https://www.voanews.com/a/covering-china-brings-surveill…

Covering China brings surveillance, harassment, report finds
Foreign Correspondents Club of China finds journalists able to travel more since pandemic, but visa issues and obstruction restrict coverage

Covering climate change through a solutions and data lens https://ijnet.org/en/story/covering-climate-change-through-solutions-and-data-lens

Covering climate change through a solutions and data lens
Covering climate change through a solutions lens is picking up steam in the media. This is not about telling positive, pat-on-the-back stories about the environment. This model uses investigative techniques and data that rely on scrupulous reporting, to identify policies and practices to help mitigate the crisis.

UNESCO awards its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240503-unesco-awards-its-world-press-freedom-prize-to-all-palestinian-journalists…

UNESCO awards its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months.

This is what happens when pro-life Republicans play God - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/pro-life-republicans/

This is what happens when pro-life Republicans play God
I would suggest that, by overwhelmingly passing a measure Thursday to protect in vitro fertilization providers and patients from criminal and civil liability, Alabama legislators are doing more than covering their asses. They are discovering what happens when you play God. Alabama’s supreme court ru...

DW News on X: "Authorities in Burkina Faso have suspended Deutsche Welle (DW) and several other international media outlets for covering allegations of mass killings by the military. https://t.co/Fy5WuCfcLi" / X

Burkina Faso blocks DW website over massacre coverage
Deutsche Welle's management has called for the website to "be unblocked immediately." Burkina Faso's regulatory authority suspended access to the DW site after coverage of alleged massacres at two villages.

Passive detection of a random signal common to multi-sensor reference and surveillance arrays
David Ram\'irez, Ignacio Santamaria, Louis L. Scharf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07583

Passive detection of a random signal common to multi-sensor reference and surveillance arrays
This paper addresses the passive detection of a common rank-one subspace signal received in two multi-sensor arrays. We consider the case of a one-antenna transmitter sending a common Gaussian signal, independent Gaussian noises with arbitrary spatial covariance, and known channel subspaces. The detector derived in this paper is a generalized likelihood ratio (GLR) test. For all but one of the unknown parameters, it is possible to find closed-form maximum likelihood (ML) estimator functions. We…

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On the Transit Obfuscation Problem
Concealing an intermediate point on a route or visible from a route is an important goal in some transportation and surveillance scenarios. This paper studies the Transit Obfuscation Problem, the problem of traveling from some start location to an end location while "covering" a specific transit point that needs to be concealed from adversaries. We propose the notion of transit anonymity, a quantitative guarantee of the anonymity of a specific transit point, even with a powerful adversary with …

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
https://religionnews.com/2024/04/26/united-methodists-endorse-change-that-could-give-regions-more-say-on-lgb…

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
(AP) — The plan would create multiple regional conferences — one for the United States and others covering areas ranging from the Philippines to Europe to Africa.

Despite the law not covering them...
Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits - al.com
https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2024/02/fro

Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits
The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.

DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/03/10/doj-inspector-general-exposes-critical-f…

DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths | Atlanta Daily World
  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A scathing report released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz unveiled a disturbing pattern of operational and managerial deficiencies within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), shedding light on the alarming rate of inmate deaths. The report, covering the years … Continued