With £31m committed to improving politicians' safety, how bad is the abuse our local leaders face?
2024, AN ELECTION ABOUT ELECTIONS. The new poll out from Fox News has a number of intriguing findings. For example, it shows that in a two-way, head-to-head matchup, former President Donald Trump leads President Joe Biden by 5 points. And in a five-way matchup between Biden, Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and Jill Stein, […]
Last year, while organizing a global democracy forum in Mexico, a member of that country’s national electoral court requested I add a speaker to our program: an American judge who was an expert in how elections work. First, I contacted election lawyers, who told me they knew of no judges with such expertise. Then I called judges, eight leading U.S. jurists in all. Among this diverse group of judges were Republicans and Democrats, those who work at the state level and the federal level, in...
The Department of Justice is investigating dozens of threats made to election workers, federal officials said Monday, and has charged 20 individuals so far. “These are the first responders of democracy and we will continue to investigate and prosecute those who would threaten to do them harm,” said Gary Restaino, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, at a press conference highlighting the recent convictions. Thirteen of the 20 charged individuals have been convicted. Of the ten who have...
When it comes to the spread of disease, the finger often points at animals like rats as carriers of illnesses.
Artificial intelligence tools may pose a threat to writers of thrillers and science fiction, but lack the originality and humour to challenge serious novelists, Salman Rushdie wrote in a French journal published Thursday.In an article translated into French for literary journal La Nouvelle Revue Francaise (NRF), Rushdie said he tested ChatGPT by asking it to write 200 words in his style.He describes the results as "a bunch of nonsense"."No reader who had read a single page of mine could think I...
Artificial intelligence tools may pose a threat to writers of thrillers and science fiction, but lack the originality and humour to challenge serious novelists, Salman Rushdie wrote in a French journal
Even though we have a bipartisan consensus acknowledging we are being challenged by the Chinese Communist Party and Vladimir Putin’s oppressive regime, we have not figured out responses to these challenges.
There are warnings that it could leave parts of the country uninhabitable if temperatures keep rising.
Police car vehicle of New York Police as seen parked or moving on the streets of NY near Union Square park in Manhattan, New York City in the United States of America. Officer Jonathan Diller was shot and killed during a traffic stop on Monday. [ more › ]
What began as a mystery illness that has made its way to dairies in the Texas Panhandle was confirmed Monday as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or Bird Flu, by health officials.
John Keller says workers facing onslaught for ‘dutifully and reliably doing their jobs’ as man given 30 months for threatsElection officials across the US are facing an onslaught of unfounded hostility for “dutifully and reliably doing their jobs”, the head of a federal taskforce set up to protect the election community from violent threats said on Monday.John Keller, who leads the day-to-day efforts of the election threats taskforce, based in Washington, told reporters that the wave of violent...