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Video game creators scramble to unionize as AI threat looms

As the gaming industry reels from a tidal wave of layoffs, companies’ rush into automation has developers watching their backs – and could soon trigger a major strike. Io Dodds reports

<p>Unionised video game workers protest outside the Game Awards in Los Angeles in December 2023</p>
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Giuliani’s bankruptcy could cost him his apartment, his jewellery and, perhaps worse, his Joe DiMaggio shirt

From multimillion-dollar properties to luxury watches (and a replica signed Joe DiMaggio shirt), the former New York mayor and Trump attorney may have to part with some cherished items to pay his creditors, writes Kelly Rissman

<p>Former mayor Rudy Giuliani boasting Yankees gear at a baseball game in May 2018 </p>
Crime

Did a professor run over her police officer boyfriend and leave him to die in the snow – or is she being framed?

Karen Read’s murder charges have generated a media frenzy for months, with competing claims of a cold-blooded killing and conspiracy theories about a cover-up. Katie Hawkinson reports

Crime

Who are God’s Misfits, the ‘anti-government group’ accused of ambushing and murdering two women?

Two members claimed they were going on a ‘mission’ before Veronica Butler and Jilian Kelley vanished

<p>Clockwise from top left: Tad Bert Cullum, 43, Cora Twombly, 44, Cole Earl Twombly, 50, and Tifany Machel Adams, 54, were arrested and charged with murder this weekend</p>

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