• EFSA shares 2022 data on pesticide residues in food

    Data showing the scale of pesticide residues on food have been published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 110,829 food samples were collected

  • AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them.

    Deepfakes threaten to upend elections. No one can stop them (First column, 9th story, link) Related stories:AI can predict political orientations from blank faces

  • A progressive congresswoman made history in 2022. Can a billionaire stop her re-election?

    Summer Lee, Pennsylvania’s first Black congresswoman, has expanded her base. Her primary is a test case in a year progressive candidates face a challenge from pro-Israel fundsThe US representative Summer Lee greeted a cheering crowd of a couple of hundred supporters at the Pittsburgh teachers’ union headquarters on Sunday, with two days left until her Democratic primary.Lee, who made history in 2022 when she became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Pennsylvania, predicted that...

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    International migrants were attracted to large urban counties last year, Census Bureau data shows

    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — International migrants were attracted to some of the largest urban counties in the U.S. last year, an influx that helped some of those areas recover from the loss of local

  • Election Results: April 2024 Primary Election

    (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News is Your Local Election Headquarters. Check back here throughout the night for the latest local and state election results. Election results will start to populate the page after 8:00 p.m.

  • Erie Co. elections gearing up for successful Election Day

    Election Day is one week away and staff at the Erie County Elections Office are busy putting the final touches on everything for the big day. The director of elections Tonia Fernandez said Tuesday was the last day to apply for a ballot to vote early and the last day to submit an application for []

  • Elections bill could have bigger impact for St. Cloud elections

    A bill that would ease student voting access and reallocate prisoners in the Census could affect St. Cloud, which has 10,000 college students and about 1,000 state prisoners, in future elections.

  • The GOP's "election integrity" lawyer was just indicted for election subversion

    The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump and the Republican Party: An effort to win […]

  • Sheffield City Council elections: the leader of the Green Party is seeking re-election

    Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...

  • How accurate and precise data sets drive effective first-party data activation

    Emily Kistner, director of new business and identity solutions, Adstra The landscape of data-driven advertising is evolving at a breakneck pace, with connected TV and programmatic advertising leading the charge.  Scalable identity, coupled with the adoption of machine learning, has unlocked marketers’ ability to reach increasingly specific audiences. These improvements, along with the massive COVID-era […]

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    Indonesia court rejects election disputes, upholding president-elect Prabowo's win

    JAKARTA (Reuters) -An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the disqualification of winner Prabowo Subianto and his running mate, bringing an end to all election disputes. The Constitutional Court ruled that there was no evidence of systematic fraud and presidential "meddling", nor that state bodies, regional officials and social assistance had been mobilised to sway polls in the world's third-largest...

  • Indonesia election: Prabowo formally declared president-elect after court rejects legal challenges

    Rivals had said February election won by former general was undermined by state interference and unfair rule changesIndonesia’s electoral commission has formally declared Prabowo Subianto president-elect in a ceremony, after the country’s highest court rejected challenges to his win by rival candidates.Prabowo, 72, a former general dogged by allegations of human rights abuses, won a landslide victory in February’s elections, but his two opponents claimed that the vote had been undermined by...