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  • Colorado legislature: Same-sex marriage amendment to go to voters; Senate passes oil and gas measures
    Denver Post, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 04:26 PM

    The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days. This story will be updated throughout the day. Updated at 1:30 p.m.: A proposed Constitutional amendment to remove defunct language banning same-sex marriage will go to voters this November after a referred measure passed the Colorado House on Saturday. The proposed amendment would remove a ban approved by voters in 2006.

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  • Ex-Election Official Gets Wrist Slapped For Election Fraud
    The Daily Dot, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 01:18 PM

    Kimberly Zapata, the former Milwaukee elections official who committed election fraud in the 2022 elections by falsely filing for three military absentee ballots found out her fate this week. Zapata had been facing up to five years in prison, instead was sentenced to one year of probation, a $3,000 fine and 120 hours of community service.

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  • Russian Soldiers Beg For Shotguns To Combat FPV Drones
    The Daily Dot, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 01:17 PM

    Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.

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  • Russia puts Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on its wanted list
    Denver Post, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 12:09 PM

    The Associated Press Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database. As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen.

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  • U.K. Labour’s Sadiq Khan Wins Historic Third Term as Mayor of London
    Time, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 11:39 AM

    LONDON — Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, romped to victory Saturday, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U. K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election. Khan won a little over a million votes, or nearly 44% of the vote, more than 11 percentage points ahead of his main challenger, the Conservative Party’s Susan Hall.

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  • Athletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say
    Denver Post, Saturday - 05/04/2024 - 08:00 AM

    A high school athletic director in Maryland has been accused of using artificial intelligence to impersonate a principal on an audio recording that included racist and antisemitic comments, authorities said last month. Authorities said the case appears to be among the first of its kind in the country and called for new laws to guard against the technology.

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