Iraq repatriates nearly 700 more citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a Syrian camp BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has repatriated hundreds more of its citizens linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. 04/29/2024 - 3:36 am | View Link
Christodoulides: We cannot accept any more Syrian refugees President Nikos Christodoulides said on Sunday that Cyprus “cannot accept any more Syrian refugees”.In an interview with the Editor Network Germany (RND), he said “we are not in a position to take any ... 04/21/2024 - 4:31 am | View Link
Cyprus suspends processing of Syrian asylum applications as boatloads of refugees continue arriving NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Saturday it’s suspending processing all asylum applications by Syrian nationals because large numbers of refugees from the war-torn country continue to reach the ... 04/12/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Lebanon official urges restrictions on Syrian refugees after slaying blamed on Syrian gang BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s caretaker interior minister said Tuesday that this week's slaying of a local politician by what authorities say was a gang of Syrian nationals signals the need to restrict the ... 04/9/2024 - 4:38 am | View Link
Judge Merchan ruled that Donald Trump violated a gag order nine times and ordered him to pay $9,000. Merchan also threatened to jail Trump if he didn't comply with the gag order in the future. Criminal defense attorney Bill Brennan breaks down the decision.
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Eight years ago, the final Saturday before the Iowa caucuses brought forward all of the contradictions and chaos of then-reality star Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency.
(PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.
Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance who was the current interim prime minister.
The number of groups lobbying the U. S. federal government on artificial intelligence nearly tripled from 2022 to 2023, rocketing from 158 to 451 organizations, according to data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit that tracks and publishes data on campaign finance and lobbying. Data on the total amount spent on lobbying by each organization and interviews with two congressional staffers, two nonprofit advocates familiar with AI lobbying efforts, and two named experts suggest that large technology companies have so far dominated efforts to influence potential AI legislation.
The pace is picking up at the Colorado Capitol, with stacked calendars of committee hearings and floor votes. The legislature has nine days to go — including this coming weekend — before the end of the 2024 session, which must adjourn by the end of the day on May 8.
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Updated at 10:30 a.m.: Colorado school employees must now call students by their preferred, gender-affirming names, under to a new law signed Monday by Gov.
So right-wing media continues the deliberate degradation of information, and then pulls it back when threatened with legal action. OAN is not really all that different from Fox, where Jesse Watters gleefully spreads manure on the air. Via the Daily Beast:
Far-right cable news network One America News apologized to Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen Monday after retracting a report that suggested he—rather than Trump himself—had been the one who carried out an affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.