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[ad_1] Powell needs to go!!A former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors has now been found guilty of lying to federal investigators about sharing restricted information with Chinese intelligence operatives. This is not a peripheral scandal—it strikes at the coreRead Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel seemed feasible when President Bill Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo accords at the White House in September 1993. The goal was reaffirmed in 2011 when 90 percent of the Senate co-sponsored a resolution supporting “a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.” But today, the two-state scenario is far-fetched to the point of delusion if not evasion. For politicians, it has become a box to check. According to data from the American Jewish Congress, every Democrat and most Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee currently say they support “the…

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[ad_1] In a late night speech from the White House on Thursday, President Donald Trump alleged that the Chinese government interfered in the U.S. elections in 2018 and 2020.  Trump cited CIA reports to claim that China attempted to manufacture illegal ballots for Joe Biden and acquired 220 million U.S. voter files containing personal information. He also said the documents showed that “dozens” of CIA reports about Chinese targeting were kept out of briefings delivered to Trump.  “They had deliberately massaged the presidential daily briefing to withhold information regarding Chinese activities related to the election” Trump said, claiming that an…

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[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision on June 25 shielding Bayer, the maker of Roundup, from claims it failed to warn of the weedkiller’s cancer risk could do more than close the courthouse door on tens of thousands of lawsuits. It pushes the national fight over paraquat — linked for decades to Parkinson’s disease — back to the two institutions critics say have spent decades failing to act on it: the EPA and Congress. By Marcus Stern and Daisy Yuhas This story is part of a series by Public Health Watch and MyRGV.com. Read the first article from this collaboration here.…

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[ad_1] Back at it: “Iran said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz was an inviolable ‘red line,’ warning that if ​U.S. President Donald Trump carried out his threat to attack Iran’s infrastructure, it would strike all infrastructure across the Gulf region,” reports Reuters. Renewed fighting is now in its sixth day, and the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports has been reinstated following the dissolution of the truce, which was signed in mid-June. “We are in an essential and existential war with ​America,” said Tehran’s top negotiator Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason…

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[ad_1] The Iran war gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “targeted ads.” During the war, the U.S. military evacuated many of its bases, moving personnel to hotels and civilian office spaces. A new report in the Financial Times reveals the high-tech ways in which Iran followed them. In at least one place, Iraqi Kurdistan, the Iranian military is suspected of using ad tracking data to figure out which hotels were housing U.S. troops. “Any government with a halfway decent cyber intelligence program is participating in these [ad data] exchanges, because it’s such an immensely valuable source of data,”…

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[ad_1] An excerpt from the June 29 Georgia Court of Appeals decision in Accuracy in Media, Inc. v. Giusti, written by Judge Brian Rickman and joined by Chief Judge Trenton Brown and Judge Amanda Mercier: Isabella Giusti (“Izzy”), Joni Saxon-Giusti, and Peter Giusti (collectively, “the Giustis”) filed a lawsuit against Accuracy in Media, Inc., and its president Adam Guillette (collectively, “Accuracy in Media”) asserting claims for defamation [and other torts]…. Here’s a summary of plaintiffs’ allegations: Izzy, a native of Savannah, was a junior at Barnard College during the 2023-24 school year. Joni Saxon-Giusti and Peter Giusti are Izzy’s parents.…

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[ad_1] The Trump administration’s trade war with the world has been a haphazard, often chaotic affair, but if you had to identify a single, guiding principle for the administration’s actions, it would be balancing America’s trade deficits. President Donald Trump has been talking about the trade deficit for years (even though he sometimes seems to confuse it with the federal budget deficit, which is a very different thing). During his second term, the president’s top trade officials have also stressed the trade deficit as a key metric by which to measure the effectiveness of Trump’s tariffs. For example, when pressed by…

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