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WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2026/01/13/withcoverage-flat-fee-insura…

Exclusive: WithCoverage raises $42M to replace insurance brokers
Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures co-led the round

Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether
two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month,
as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said Friday that
his agency opened a joint probe with the Justice Department after video evidence revealed
“sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements”

Feds investigating if ICE officers lied about a Minneapolis shooting
Federal authorities have opened a criminal probe into whether two immigration officers lied under oath about a shooting in Minneapolis last month, as all charges were dropped against two Venezuelan men. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said Friday that his agency had opened a joint probe with the Justice Department after video evidence revealed “sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements” about the shooting of one of t…

Photographer Captures Incredible Luminous Event Over His Italian Town–For the Second Time https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/photographer-captures-incredible-luminous-event-over-his-town-for-2nd-time/

Photographer Captures Incredible Luminous Event Over His Italian Town–For the Second Time (LOOK)
Incredible images by an amateur astrophotographer show bizarre red rings, known as ELVES, 143-miles wide, floating in the sky.

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

Summit (aka Deft, aka ServerCentral):
"In our Elk Grove Village location, our CAM costs increased by 11% [...]  We will be passing this increase through [...]
We have also renewed our lease at Elk Grove Village resulting in increased costs of 30%. This renewal reflects the impact of high demand and increasing costs in the data center space.  This renewal is effective on July 1st, 2026 and we will be passing this increase through"

Four injured as Russian strikes target energy infrastructure in Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/12/four-injured-as-russian-strikes.html

At least 9 killed, 28 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/13/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

Federal immigration agents detained an employee of the New York City council on Monday,
sparking outrage from the city’s leaders and renewed rebukes against the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
“This is an assault on our democracy, on our city, and our values,”
Mayor Zohran Mamdanisaid in a statement on X.
“I am calling for his immediate release and will continue to monitor the situation.”
The employee was taken in during a “routine immigration appointm…

Russian attacks kill 2, injure 11 in Ukraine, hit Turkish cargo ship over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital,
as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.
Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who had been shot.
Medical staff said the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated …