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When Kris Kobach became Kansas secretary of state 13 years ago, he immediately proposed new election requirements, including showing a photo ID to vote and mandating new voter applicants provide documentsproving their citizenship. Among the earliest and fiercest critics of the measure were transgender Kansans. They warned that confusion or suspicion arising from mismatches between their official documents and outward presentation — and the difficulty of changing official records — risked disenfranchisement. A federal judge laterstruck down the proof-of-citizenship rule and Kansas agreed to all......

Flying overseas this month or next from Miami International Airport? If you booked air travel to visit family in Latin America on Avianca, Copa, or LATAM airlines, or to enjoy a late summer adventure to the Middle East or Europe on Emirates or Turkish Airways, many of you likely will encounter something new before boarding your flight at the airport. The intent is to hasten your journey. Miami airport on Wednesday started adding facial-recognition technology to at least 20 more international departure gates to verify identification of individual travelers, the biggest implementation stage of t......

A former U.S. Marine who smuggled drugs from Mexico into the U.S. for years was sentenced Friday to 12 years in federal prison. Roberto Salazar II, of San Diego, pleaded guilty in October 2022 to bringing fentanyl into the country and to conspiring to distribute controlled substances, including heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl, officials said. Until he was arrested last year, the 26-year-old was an active-duty U.S. Marine stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego. Prosecutors said Salazar “recruited, managed, and paid multiple drug couriers,” to bring drugs across......

She’s known to searchers as Jane Seneca Doe. But now, she might have a few other names as clues. Calhoun. Harris. For years, Grundy County, Illinois, Deputy Chief Coroner Brandon Johnson has been trying to find out what happened to a young woman found dumped in a ditch decades ago. Thought to be between 15 and 27 years old, the African American victim was found shot in the head off a highway in Seneca on Oct. 2, 1976. By using DNA genealogy, Johnson has gathered some new leads. But he also faces more questions. Through the help of genealogical researchers, Johnson knows her family might have b......

CHICAGO — The man formerly known to investigators as Gacy victim No. 5 finally has a name thanks to advances in DNA testing and analysis. Genealogy information helped Cook County investigators identify a young North Carolina native as one of the unidentified victims of John Wayne Gacy. Francis Wayne Alexander disappeared between February 1976 and March 1977, according to authorities. On Monday, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart released Alexander’s identity following a two-year investigation that, with the help of DNA experts, cleared a 43-year-old mystery that continues for five others slain by Ch......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Facial recognition software company Clearview AI has appropriated the identities of billions of “unsuspecting” people from websites including social media platforms to sell to police, chilling the right to free speech and endangering immigrants and people of color, a new lawsuit claims. “Clearview also scrapes images of people that were uploaded without their knowledge or consent, including images posted by friends or relatives and even images of people who inadvertently appear in the backgrounds of photographs taken by strangers,” the suit filed Tuesday in Alameda County Su......