Dick Spotswood: Marin central committees are worth a closer look Among the obscure offices on California primary election ballots are contests for positions on each county’s Republican and Democratic central committees. The unpaid and unheralded posts comprise the ... 04/30/2024 - 6:30 am | View Link
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Today is the last day of early voting in elections for HCAD, Texas Senate seat Today is the last day to vote early in the May 4 special election with a Texas Senate seat and three property tax appraisal district board positions on the ballot. Early voting locations are open ... 04/30/2024 - 12:00 am | View Link
Early voting starts in Central Georgia today | Here's what you need to know Since Georgia is an open primary state, you don't have to register into a party to vote; you can walk up to your assigned precinct and pick the ballot you want to vote on. You can check your voter ... 04/29/2024 - 2:22 pm | View Link
On ‘Freedom Day,’ South Africans recall a momentous vote In April of every year, South Africans mark the anniversary of a momentous vote: when millions of Black South Africans, young and old, brought apartheid to a close. 04/29/2024 - 9:22 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.