The tool lets ICE populate a map with potential deportation targets, bring up dossiers on each person, and view an address “confidence score” based on data sourced from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other government agencies. This is according to a user guide for ELITE 404 Media obtained.
404 Media is now publishing a version of that user guide so people can read it for themselves.
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Catherine O’Hara has died. Best known for her blend of high-energy comedy and deeply felt humanity across the films of Tim Burton and Christopher Guest, O’Hara has been a staple of Hollywood comedy since her television debut in the late ’70s. Variety confirmed her death via O’Hara’s manager. The beloved star of Home Alone, Beetlejuice, Schitt’s Creek, and countless other hit comedies over the last four decades was 71.
Born in Toronto on March 4, 1954, O’Hara made her start in comedy as the 20-year-old understudy to Gilda Radner at the famed Canadian comedy theater The Second City. After Radner left for Lorne Michaels’ Saturday Night Live, O’Hara filled in and soon became a star performer. When the theater stage gave way to television, O’Hara was a creator, writer, and star of the groundbreaking sketch series SCTV, alongside John Candy, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, and Eugene Levy, with whom she would remain a collaborator for decades. Impersonating Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Katharine Hepburn, and her old friend Gilda Radner, O’Hara demonstrated her range as a performer and her aptitude for high-status roles.
When SCTV ended in 1984, O’Hara hit Hollywood Blvd running, landing roles opposite Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in Mike Nichols’ Heartburn and as an obnoxious ice cream truck driver in Martin Scorsese’s After Hours. Following Anjelica Huston’s reported exit from the production of Beetlejuice, director Tim Burton, coming off Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, wanted O’Hara for Delia Deetz, the film’s pretentious artworld matriarch. The actor initially declined the role, but after Burton hopped on a plane to meet with her personally, O’Hara relented. As the temporarily embarrassed urbanite forced to live with her thoughts in the sticks, O’Hara skewered the bohemians with magnetic charisma, keeping the film’s energy high long before Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice makes his appearance. Not only did Beetlejuice give O’Hara her first iconic screen role, but it was on the set that she met her husband, Burton’s then-production designer Bo Welch, whom she married in 1992.
Following turns in Dick Tracy and Martin Short’s short-lived The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley, O’Hara signed on to play Kate McCallister in the family boobytrap Christmas comedy Home Alone. The role didn’t require O’Hara to throw paint cans or get electrocuted, but rather to give the film its emotional center as a mother desperately trying to get back to the son she accidentally abandoned. O’Hara instantly became one of cinema’s most revered fainters as her shriek, “Kevin!” became as familiar a holiday phrase as “’tis the season.” She’d return for the sequel Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, again hitting her famous faint and catchphrase.
Throughout the ’90s, O’Hara continued to vary her roles, playing Calamity Jane in Tall Tale and lending her voice to two characters in the Burton-produced The Nightmare Before Christmas: the mischievous trick-or-treater, Shock, and the romantic lead and sad ragdoll, Sally. In 1996, she reunited with many of her Second City alums for Christopher Guest’s Waiting For Guffman. Playing the delusional travel agent and community theater vet Shelia Albertson, O’Hara played off the unflappable Fred Willard in the first of four collaborations with Guest. 2000’s Best In Show allowed her to go even deeper into the mind of the downtrodden middle-class dreamer as Cookie Fleck, the optimistic owner of Winky, her beloved Norwich terrier and inspiration for the song, “God Loves A Terrier.” Paired with Eugene Levy, O’Hara grounded the film’s over-the-top characters as half of the put-upon couple facing perpetual inconvenience as they move up the ranks of the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show.
Levy and O’Hara would find even greater heights as Mitch and Mickey, the long-estranged folk duo from A Mighty Wind. The film’s emotional plot focuses on their performance of their ’60s hit, “A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow,” culminating in a beautiful and heart-wrenching finale. Though the pair would again star in Guest’s For Your Consideration, Levy and O’Hara’s partnership didn’t become a national concern again until they both experienced a career revival as Moira and Johnny Rose on the unlikely deep-cable hit, Schitt’s Creek, which would net O’Hara her second Emmy. The show was a smash with critics and audiences alike, who were ready to elevate O’Hara to the highest tier of comedy stars. For their part, O’Hara and Levy worked magic as an eccentric but grounded couple on the series for six seasons, as O’Hara added new vocabulary words into the pop-culture lexicon.
“Eugene and I, without even talking about it, individually decided that we would be a solid, loving couple. So that was very nice to play,” she told The A.V. Club in 2020. “I don’t think they were going that strongly in this direction, but there were a few nagging jokes at the beginning, and we all worked against that, which was great. Because I think it was lovely having a solid relationship in the middle of all this madness and turmoil.”
O’Hara performed several other roles throughout 21st century, voicing characters in Where The Wild Things Are, Frankenweenie, and The Wild Robot, while appearing in the hit legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. She also had standout guest-star roles on Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, and Modern Family. Last year, O’Hara earned her final Emmy nomination for Supporting Actress for The Studio.
O’Hara is survived by her husband and two children.
Back in 1999, WCW mailed out a so-called PowerDisk. This CD-ROM contained video clips, but the catch was that it could only be played while online thanks to an encrypted video format. Like so many things WCW did, there wasn’t really any good reason to do this, and when the relevant servers shut down the following year, the videos became unplayable for the next 25+ years.
Diamond Dallas Page, for instance, showed off an official hat with a pocket! Now there’s an original pitch: Buy DDP’s hat—there could be money in it!
There were also a handful of straight-up TV commercials for Slim Jim and Surge.
Another batch of videos were short highlight reels, like this one titled “KIDVID” that turned out to be about Billy Kidman.
(and not that dork from the BK Kids Club gang)
A mysterious “Hacker” repeatedly appeared in silhouette but, unlike the hacker from the beginning of this article, he never did anything useful.
There was also a less-mysterious guy named Chad who met up with some of WCW’s stars…
…walking in on a disheveled Brian Knobs…
…before tagging along with Scotty Riggs. The former American Male had little use for Chad, whom he called a stupid klutz (with “stupid” bleeped out for some reason)…
…but he brought him to a bar anyway to pick up ladies.
The lucky owners of the WCW PowerDisk were also treated to clips of “classic” matches, each lasting a minute or two.
This disk must have gone out in October, because the only match clips were from Halloween Havocs past. Even then, some of the choices were flat-out ridiculous.
I mean, the Monster Truck Sumo match from Havoc ’95, complete with The Giant’s 80-foot fall and re-emergence unscathed?
I say “flat-out ridiculous” because Paul Wight didn’t even work for the company anymore.
But the main attraction of the WCW PowerDisk was its three exclusive match-ups, taking place at WCW’s PowerSite. The PowerSite, of course, was home to the CyberDome, which contained the CyberRing.
Basically, in 1999, the only way to put a match on the computer was to put the wrestlers into the computer. “Live cyber-action in a virtual environment”, Scott Hudson called it.
Truly, this was wrestling for the new millennium. And who better to introduce this vision of the future than Mean Gene Okerlund…
…a man who knew more about CyberRing than most would care to imagine?
Due to the mammoth tusks surrounding the ring, the wrestlers couldn’t make a normal entrance. Instead, Erik Watts beamed into the ring via a “CyberBugZapper”.
—although, considering he started out with this marvelous head of hair and ended up bald, he should’ve probably picked a new last name. Fortune abandoned you long ago, my friend.
Long-time Crappers will of course recognize Chad as Troy (or possibly Travis) from the Tekno Team 2000. His partner? None other than Erik Watts.
The tag team of the year 2000 might not have made it past 1996 as a team, but as opponents they very nearly made it to the year 2000 in the CyberRing of the future.
And talk about cutting edge! We’re talking three—count ‘em—three fixed camera angles, green-screen technology, and a dungeon atmosphere not unlike Midway’s recent arcade hit Mortal Kombat.
We’re talking ring posts to nowhere and fire on exactly one side of the ring.
Plus, the whole CyberDome had the seal of approval not only of the nWo, but WCW, whose bird shit logo emblazoned the walls like a spirograph. Even Larry Zbyszko, inventor of Larry Land, thought this set-up was out of this world.
Watts and Fortune took turns trying to throw each other into the spikes popping up intermittently around the ring. Now, could one actually be hurt by virtual reality? No one knew for sure, but Erik Watts didn’t want to be the one to find out, hanging onto the ropes for dear life.
Next up was another match that could open any WCW Saturday Night taping in the country: Kenny Kaos and Chase Tatum. It’s pretty obvious why they didn’t stick any top stars like Sting or Goldberg in the CyberDome: they couldn’t afford to lose a main-eventer to a retracting spike accident!
Scott and Larry took a break from all the cutting-edge cyber action to discuss hat pins before Tatum suplexed Kaos “right out of his shorts”. What kind of cyber action were we talking about here? Thankfully, this was just hyperbole, and Kenny’s cyber testes remained concealed.
With the CyberRing came new strategies. Larry suggested Chase push Kenny Kaos’s face toward the spikes—not to kill his opponent necessarily, but to scare him. That man is CyberSick! Scott noted that with all the deadly hazards around the ring, wrestlers didn’t dare climb the ropes. Bill Watts would be proud.
Nonetheless, Kaos mounted the top rope and delivered a flying leg drop for the victory.
Note the referee’s shoe blending into the ring apron
The final bout from the Power Plant PowerSite saw Sgt. Buddy Lee Parker face Hardbody Harrison. This time, defying all known laws of cyberphysics, Harrison pulled a flex bar out of thin air and started working out with it…
…before tossing it to a virtual audience member…
(one of these half dozen fans they kept showing)
…who later tossed it to Sarge. The announcers identified this ordinary piece of fitness equipment as a CyberStick. The referee, putting safety first, confiscated it and tossed it into the wall of flames just outside the ring.
Instead, Sarge won fair and square with a knee drop.
All in all, WCW really dodged a bullet with their CyberRing, as despite all the hazards, everyone emerged unscathed. Chad Fortune didn’t get impaled on a tusk. Chase Tatum didn’t get stabbed with a spike. Hardbody Harrison didn’t get consumed in a lake of fire (not yet, at least).
What other regrettable wrestling relics are out there, hidden on giveaway CD-ROMs? Get to hacking, ‘Crappers!
The FBI would not clarify whether the action is tied to the 2020 election, but last month the Department of Justice announced it's suing Fulton County for records related to the election.
Pinterest said on Tuesday it would trim its workforce by less than 15% and reduce office space, as the social media company looks to reallocate resources to AI-focused roles and initiatives. From a report: The announcement comes as the company competes with TikTok and Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram for digital advertising budgets, as these platforms continue to draw marketers with their extensive user base.
Pinterest had 5,205 full-time employees as of September 2025. The latest job cut would translate to less than 780 positions. Top executives at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting said while jobs would disappear, new ones would spring up, with two telling Reuters that AI would be used as an excuse by companies which were planning layoffs anyway. Last week, design software maker Autodesk also announced a 7% job cut to redirect investments to its cloud platform and AI efforts.
Court documents unsealed last week in a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic reveal that the AI company ran an operation called "Project Panama" to buy millions of physical books, slice off their spines, scan the pages to train its Claude chatbot, and then send the remains to recycling companies.
The company spent tens of millions of dollars on the effort and hired Tom Turvey, a Google executive who had worked on the legally contested Google Books project two decades earlier. Anthropic bought books in batches of tens of thousands from retailers including Better World Books and World of Books. A vendor document noted the company was seeking to scan between 500,000 and two million books.
Before Project Panama, Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann downloaded books from LibGen, a shadow library of pirated material, over 11 days in June 2021. He later shared a link to the Pirate Library Mirror site with colleagues, writing "this is awesome!!!" Meta employees similarly downloaded books from torrent platforms after approval from Mark Zuckerberg, court filings allege, though one engineer wrote that "torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right." Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion in August without admitting wrongdoing.
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