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A new government report is on hold because of errors — and now we know even less about immigration enforcement

Conflict

Immigration officials are halting publishing a weekly report that names cities that don’t comply with requests to hold people beyond their release dates. They had published three reports — all with significant errors.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on the right, joined White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for the daily press briefing on Monday, March 27.

This is the data we no longer get about immigration enforcement under the Trump administration

Justice
City traffic.

Uber is making ride-booking data publicly available. Is this a privacy Pandora’s box?

Technology
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Too much boba is bad for you. California’s new data law could show who’s most at risk.

Global Politics
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What do your emails say about your relationship? A lot.

Lifestyle
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Artist Laurie Flick takes data on her daily life and transforms it into art

Arts

Our lives are tracked in minute detail. And all that data has to go somewhere. For Laurie Flick, an artist, the answer was to take that data and convert it to art.

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