Police search for additional victims as two bodies discovered in California

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Officials investigating missing persons case find bodies in remote area of Lancaster, north of Los Angeles

Law enforcement officials are looking for additional victims after two bodies were found on Tuesday in a remote area of Lancaster, California, a small city about 70 miles north of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Authorities found the bodies in a shallow grave while they were investigating a missing persons case, according to KTLA. Outside of the sheriff’s department investigating the discovery of the remains as a homicide, little is known about the two people who were found in the shallow grave.

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Daredevil Jaan Roose completes slackline walk high above central Seoul

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Estonian completed first of two attempts to navigate narrow ribbon, 160 metres long and 120 metres high, near the city’s famous Gyeongbokgung palace on Thursday

The lunchtime crowds drifted slowly back to their offices along central Seoul’s main boulevard, heads up and phones raised to the sky.

High above, a narrow ribbon ran between the Koreana hotel and the Dong-A Media Center, a few hundred metres from the capital’s famous Gyeongbokgung palace and Gwanghwamun square.

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Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat

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Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations

Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance.

The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker’s emotional state by using their biometric data, require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone.

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Kristi Noem, former Trump homeland security chief, files for divorce

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Noem cites irreconcilable differences in filing that comes after husband Bryon Noem involved in tabloid scandal

Kristi Noem, who was fired by Donald Trump after a rumbustious stint as homeland security secretary, is divorcing her husband, Bryon Noem, after 34 years of marriage, citing “irreconcilable differences”.

The divorce claim “for settlement purposes only” was disclosed in court records filed in Hamlin county, South Dakota, the state of which Noem was previously governor.

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Floating scarecrows: how Cornish fishers are stopping seabirds drowning in their nets

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Simple deterrents can slash the number of razorbills and guillemots being trapped underwater, two-year study shows

Bird-shaped kites and a floating scarecrow are being tested to try to stop endangered seabirds drowning in fishing nets.

Every year an estimated 95,000 diving birds, including razorbills and guillemots, are accidentally caught in nets off European coasts.

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‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity

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Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore

To the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away. The tiny island near Oban in Argyll has no row of shops or even a pub – if islanders want to meet for a coffee, the only place to do so is in the lively Gaelic heritage centre that records the many centuries of community life on the island.

This quiet place, documentary evidence records, was home to a monastic settlement in the sixth century AD, when missionaries from Ireland were first moving into northern Britain to spread Christianity. But apart from a few fragments of an early carved cross, there was almost nothing to see from this period of history.

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Community-led archaeology project uncovers a major monastery of medieval Scotland – Phys.org

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  1. Community-led archaeology project uncovers a major monastery of medieval Scotland  Phys.org
  2. Archaeologists unearth a ‘major’ early Christian monastery in Scotland  Scientific American
  3. ‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity  The Guardian
  4. A major early medieval monastery, lost to legend, found on a Scottish island  Archaeology News Online Magazine
  5. Excavation reveals Lismore’s national significance in early Scottish Catholicism  The Catholic Herald
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