EU policymakers recently proposed a sweeping set of regulations called the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). If made law, the AIA would offer European citizens the strictest, most comprehensive protections against predatory AI systems on the planet. And big tech is terrified. Up front: The Center for Data Innovation published a report on Sunday titled “How […]
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Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn shared quite a powerful analogy during the opening Jan. 6 select committee hearing on Tuesday. After echoing calls from fellow officers, who asked lawmakers to investigate the role those in power may have had on the Capitol riots, Dunn pivoted toward a potent parallel. “If a hitman is hired, and […]
Read MorePlans to significantly open up international travel are expected to be announced on Wednesday, with UK ministers poised to let people who have been fully vaccinated in the US and EU avoid quarantine if arriving from amber-list countries. The move would benefit millions of people by finally letting them be reunited with family and friends […]
Read MorePolice chiefs last night condemned Boris Johnson’s high profile strategy to tackle crime as “weird and gimmicky”, while plans to increase stop and search were criticised for ignoring the evidence. The crime initiative was supposed to show the Johnson government gripping the agenda. But senior police officers, the rank and file, opposition politicians and even […]
Read MoreBoris Johnson was a journalist who wanted to be prime minister. Now in Downing Street, he appears happiest when supplying headlines for the rightwing press. On Sunday, his plan to “blitz crime” was on the front page of the Sunday Express. On Monday, his home secretary was telling readers of the Daily Mail that she’ll […]
Read MoreIn the end, George P. Bush was left with nothing. Bush — the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and now a candidate for Texas attorney general — worked hard to get Donald Trump’s endorsement for his race against the incumbent, Ken Paxton. He did so even though his family, which also includes former Presidents George […]
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NewsOne Featured Video U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn becomes emotional as he testifies on on July 27 before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. | Source: Pool / Getty Anybody doubting the racist motivations behind the Jan. 6 insurrection hasn’t heard from U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry […]
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The Jan. 6 House select committee kicked off its first hearing on Tuesday with emotional testimonies from four of the officers who defended the Capitol that day. U.S. Capitol Sergeant Aquilino Gonell called the events of Jan. 6 “like something from a medieval battle,” adding that he expects to need “further rehabilitation,” even after a […]
Read MoreDemocracy depends on an equality of arms. If governments acquire political weapons unavailable to their opponents, they become harder to dislodge. They now possess so many that I begin to wonder how an efficient autocracy, once established, might ever again be overthrown. The Pegasus spyware, whose widespread use by governments the Guardian has helped reveal, […]
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Captura de video Con las elecciones a la vuelta de la esquina, el dólar blue transita días de volatilidad ante una mayor demanda por cobertura. Para el expresidente del Banco Nación, Carlos Melconian , un tipo de cambio con presión al alza “muestra los desequilibrios de la economía”, la falta de horizonte, el desajuste fiscal […]
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Photo: Scott Olson (Getty Images) Listen, Lori Lightfoot is a lot of things. She is the first openly gay, African-American woman to serve as Chicago’s 56th mayor. She is the first mayor to show up to a press conference dressed as “Rona Destroyer.” And she was the first political official to tell kids to stay […]
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By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The worldwide pandemic has made for some depressing times. Especially for those of us who believe governments must play a key role in safeguarding public health. First up – a point I’ll […]
Read MoreLast week, as the country was hitting peak “pingdemic”, I met key workers, in places ranging from food plants to care homes, in Manchester. They had been clapped and thanked many times, including by the prime minister. But they told me they still didn’t feel valued – and not just over their pay. Time and […]
Read MoreWASHINGTON — The select committee aimed at investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building holds its first hearing Tuesday. Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the committee, said the events of that day cannot go uninvestigated. And that includes all that went […]
Read MoreThis year’s Colour of Power report includes a host of new black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) politicians, business leaders and cultural figures. From football managers to media leaders and charity bosses, the number of minority ethnic figures in prominent positions has more than doubled in four years. Here are some of 2021’s intake: Joanne […]
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The bust of a Confederate general and leader of the Ku Klux Klan was recently removed from the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville. Crews could be seen taking down and hauling away the 3,000-pound likeness of Nathan Bedford Forrest from the government building. Before the Civil War, Forrest was a cotton planter and a […]
Read MoreKen Clarke said he was not responsible for blood products during the early days of the infected blood scandal despite being a health minister at the time, an inquiry has heard. Lord Clarke, who was a Conservative health minister from 1982 to 1985, said the emerging controversy surrounding the blood products was something that “hardly […]
Read MoreOffenders guilty of anti-social behaviour should be in “fluorescent-jacketed chain gangs” publicly paying for their crimes, Boris Johnson has said. Launching the government’s crime plan, which has been criticised by campaigners for the extension of stop-and-search powers, Johnson also called the controversial tactic “a kind and a loving thing to do”. Among the proposals, designed […]
Read MoreSince the announcement of the removal of all Covid-related restrictions in England, experts have warned of disastrous consequences, from the inevitable spike in cases to new variants emerging. We can hope the government will eventually recognise the public health risks and put some of these measures back into place. However, power and cronyism – and […]
Read MoreWes Streeting, Labour’s shadow child poverty secretary, has fully recovered from kidney cancer diagnosed in May and is returning to work, he has said in a video message. The Ilford North MP, 38, said the treatment involved removing a kidney, but that he had not undertaken chemotherapy or radiotherapy, and was now “back at work, […]
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Por James Pomfret y Sara Cheng HONG KONG, 27 jul (Reuters) – La primera persona acusada bajo la ley de seguridad nacional de Hong Kong fue declarada culpable el martes de terrorismo e incitación a la secesión, en un caso histórico que conlleva implicaciones a largo plazo sobre la forma en que la legislación transformará […]
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As many of you know, the UK declared July 19 as Freedom Day, when nearly all remaining Covid restrictions were to end. We didn’t say much about it because so many in the Twitterverse and the British press declared it to be a terrible idea, given that only 56% of the population was fully vaccinated […]
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Increasing the debt limit is necessary to preserve the full faith and credit of the United States of America. Without an increase in this limit, our Government will face a choice between breaking the law by exceeding the legal limit or breaking faith with the investors by defaulting on the debt. Neither of those choices […]
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But what if the problem is the existence of “prices” at all? Why do we talk about the “price” of an appendectomy and a blood transfusion, but not about the “price” of one 40-minute math lesson for a fifth grader and a half-hour of detention after school? In the U.S. healthcare system, the “price” of […]
Read MoreIn a July 13 speech delivered in Philadelphia, President Biden suggested that he finally grasped the severity of the GOP attempts to fundamentally alter the way elections are done in this county. The 30 new election laws passed by Republicans in states across the country that will make it more difficult for Black and Latino […]
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Yves here. As much as Tom Neuberger is careful to make the point that he isn’t advocating Andreas Malm’s enthusiasm for destruction of property, in my view the fact that Malm is get attention supports the notion that the urgency of climate change and ideas like radical conservation aren’t getting the hearing they remotely deserve. […]
Read MoreProf Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist from Imperial College London who has produced some of the most influential modelling used to inform government Covid policy, told the Today programme this morning that it was “too early to tell” whether the recent decline in the daily number of recorded cases will prove permanent and that it was […]
Read MoreThe Windrush generation is being failed by the Home Office “all over again” because of fundamental problems in the compensation scheme for UK citizens misclassified as illegal immigrants, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded. Despite a “promise to learn lessons”, Priti Patel’s department has set up a process that is too complex and difficult for victims […]
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Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over his Republican primary challenger, Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush. Both men had been angling for Trump’s backing, but Paxton – an ardent supporter who filed a failed lawsuit challenging Trump’s November election loss — won out. In a statement, Trump said Paxton […]
Read MoreMPs and campaigners have sounded alarm at a series of proposals in the government crime reduction plan, including more frequent stop and search, a trial of “alcohol tags” and criminals undertaking “visible” community service cleaning streets. Liberty said the permanent relaxation of search powers would “compound discrimination in Britain and divide communities” and the former […]
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Photo: Viacheslav Lopatin (Shutterstock) COVID-19 relief money was meant to aid workers, small business owners and people who had lost their jobs or lost wages during the pandemic. It was meant for people who are financially struggling due to something they had no control over. Of course, if you happen to be a Republican government […]
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