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Gunman believed to have left Minneapolis region after killing one legislator and her husband and wounding another legislator and his wifeThe hunt for the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses while impersonating a police officer, killing one legislator and her husband, continued on Sunday more than 24 hours after the killings.Vance Boelter, 57, now on the FBI’s most wanted list, is believed to have left the Minneapolis region after allegedly gunning down Democratic state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, at their home, according to CNN. Boelter is also suspected of shooting Democratic state senator

Chancellor says PM ‘not grandstanding’ and wanted to ‘assure himself’ that national public inquiry was necessaryRachel Reeves has defended Keir Starmer’s decision to launch a national inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation after months of pressure, saying that victims of grooming gangs have always been the government’s priority.The chancellor said the prime minister was not concerned with “grandstanding” and had instead wanted to “assure himself” that a full public inquiry was necessary. She insisted that ministers had “never dismissed the concerns of victims”, even as Labour previously resisted calls for a wide-ranging investigation. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/rachel-reeves-defends-starmers-delay-in-launching-inquiry-into-grooming-gangs Author

Critics question speed and scale of embedding AI into public sector when debate rages about use of copyrighted materialThe government’s artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as Humphrey is based on models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, it can be revealed, raising questions about Whitehall’s increasing reliance on big tech.Ministers have staked the future of civil service reform on rolling out AI across the public sector to improve efficiency, with all officials in England and Wales to receive training in the toolkit. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/15/government-roll-out-humphrey-ai-tool-reliance-big-tech Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date : 2025-06-15 06:01:00 Copyright for