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The EU will begin taking British travellers’ fingerprints and scanning their faces from next autumn, as reported by the i and the Times. The new Entry/Exit Scheme (EES) could reportedly come into force on October 6, 2024 after several delays. It was initially due to begin in 2022, then in 2023. Non-EU (including British) travellers heading to the EU will have their fingerprints checked and their faces scanned the first time they enter the zone. It will apply to all EU countries except Cyprus and Ireland. Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which are in the Schengen area but are not...

Protesters are digging in as Ottawa police begin to roll out a plan to end the trucker protest occupation that has clogged the centre of the Canadian capital for almost three weeks. Interim police chief Steve Bell says if they want to leave peacefully, now is the time and they will be given a secure route out of the city. “If they do not peacefully leave, we have plans, strategies and tactics to get them to leave,” he told reporters, saying that action is “imminent”. Protest organiser Chris Barber was spotted being taken into police custody. A secure zone with...

AP) POMONA, Calif. Pomona police arrested 20 people, impounded 171 vehicles and issued 194 citations during a sobriety and license check operation that wrapped up early this morning.

Two camera-equipped vans will begin patrolling highway work zones in July, snapping images of drivers violating the 45 m.p.h posted speed limit, officials of the Illinois Department of Transportation announced today. The vans will patrol expressway and tollway construction and maintenance zones. Signs will warn drivers of the photo radar system, which will take a picture of the offending driver, his or her vehicle and record the vehicle's speed, officials said. Drivers captured on camera will be sent a ticket in the mail. Work zone speeding fines increased last year to a $375 penalty on the first offense, almost double...

WHEN IS A SEIZURE A SEARCH? Robert Lidster's bad luck was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just after midnight on Aug. 30, 1997, he was driving along a highway in Lombard, Ill., 25 miles west of downtown Chicago. He ran into a police checkpoint -- literally ran into a checkpoint -- and now he's part of the case law construing the Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment protects us from "unreasonable" searches and seizures. The question in Lidster's case is a constantly recurring question before the Supreme Court. Was a given search reasonable or unreasonable? The...