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[ad_1] A very interesting video and transcript. Sai’s summary from the end (though of course it’s just a summary, and the analysis is elsewhere in the transcript and in Sai’s articles on the subject). I think the founders wanted to create a strong executive—not all-powerful, but strong. And they wanted someone in charge of law execution. I think that’s the principal function of the executive, not rulemaking and not acting as a substitute court. And they had examples of plural executives in the states, and they eschewed them. So I think the Court got it right…. I … think the…

[ad_1] The Board of Peace said that the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) can have no role in the future of Gaza.  “UNRWA has no place in the new Gaza,” the Board of Peace posted to X on Wednesday. “We are turning the page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better.” UNRWA serves as the most crucial aid agency for Palestinians who live as refugees or as second-class citizens in Israeli-occupied territory. Since the start of the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, UNRWA has provided a crucial lifeline to people living in…

[ad_1] Criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding birthright citizenship, some of President Donald Trump’s allies said having that right has opened the doors to “birth tourism.” That’s a reference to pregnant women traveling from outside the U.S. to give birth here in order for their babies to gain citizenship.  House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said birthright citizenship has “been grossly abused” through “birthing tourism.” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, called birthright citizenship a “major magnet for illegal immigration and birth tourism.”  Following the ruling, Trump posted, seemingly in reference to birth tourism, that he wanted to “congratulate President Xi, and the…

[ad_1] Mere days after devastating twin earthquakes rocked Venezuela and left tens of thousands dead, missing, or injured, opposition leader María Corina Machado is accusing the Venezuelan government of blocking her and others like her from entering the country. The exiled Venezuelan opposition leader, who was on her second attempt to visit the country after the earthquakes, was in Panama when her flight to Caracas was canceled after the Venezuelan government suddenly closed its airspace to commercial traffic. “The regime wants to block my return to Venezuela, as well as the return of thousands of fellow Venezuelans who want to…

[ad_1] Bid To End Birthright Citizenship Not an Entire Loss at SCOTUS [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] More than 13 billion doses of mRNA vaccines have been administered globally since the rollout in the United States of COVID-19 shots in December 2020 via Operation Warp Speed under the first Trump Administration. A just-published comprehensive new review in The Lancet takes stock of what researchers around the world have learned during the past six years about the safety and efficacy of those billions of mRNA vaccine shots. The analysis by an international team of researchers takes into account the data from randomized vaccine trials, post-authorization surveillance, and active pharmacovigilance systems. “The review concludes that serious adverse side…

[ad_1] The Iranian Foreign Minister warned Israel of an immediate response if officials continue to call for the death of the Supreme Leader.  On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that  Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei was “marked for death.” At the onset of the current war, the US and Israel assassinated Khamenei’s father, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a strike that killed several other members of his family.  On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi wrote on X that future threats would receive an “immediate powerful response” from Tehran. He also directed President Donald Trump to…

[ad_1] Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh signaled that the central bank would be focused on bringing down inflation during a European Central Bank Forum panel Wednesday in Sintra, Portugal.Warsh did not offer forward guidance, in keeping with a policy he articulated at June’s board of governors meeting, but indicated that the central bank was committed to meeting its inflation target.“If there were people in the household or the business sector and the financial markets who thought that this central bank was going to be comfortable with an inflation objective above 2 percent,” he remarked, “well, I guess they’d be disappointed.”According…

[ad_1] Birthright Citizenship Lives To Die Another Day [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] AI is everywhere. It’s getting incorporated into everything. That’s simply progress, we’re told. And therefore we need to embrace it, lest we look like a Luddite and let China win (whatever that means). Yet, simultaneously, a lot of people also are afraid because of AI. Very afraid. And sometimes, we’re told that we should be afraid too. However, in public discourse surrounding AI, there often can be a lack of detail regarding what specifically we’re supposed to be afraid of. Sometimes it is not even clear what is meant by the term “AI.” Technically speaking, as I have touched on previously,…