Month: May 2023

After the sweeping decision to reset the August special election in an attempt to thwart a possible abortion vote, leading constitutional law experts have ruled the resolution illegal. State House and Senate lawmakers on Wednesday evening approved Senate Joint Resolution 2 to put a measure on a special election ballot in August to require 60 percent of Ohio voters to amend the constitution state, a move some lawmakers hope will make it less. voters likely to legalize abortion in November. News 5 spoke to a host of legal experts with varying political leanings. They all came to the same conclusion…

Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova has sworn in a government of technocrats to lead the country to early elections in September amid a political crisis BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova on Monday swore in a government of technocrats to lead the country to early elections in September amid a political crisis. Ludovit Odor, the former deputy governor of the central bank and a respected economist, will head the 15-member cabinet. Career diplomat Miroslav Wlachovsky becomes foreign minister, with Martin Sklenar, a former senior defense ministry official, as defense minister. Odor, who is from Slovakia’s Hungarian minority, is not affiliated…

FIRST ON FOX – Former Vice President Mike Pence is returning next month to Iowa, the state whose caucuses fall off the GOP presidential nominating schedule, to take part in an annual motorcycle ride benefiting veterans as he prepares for his expected entry into the Republican presidential nomination of 2024. career. Fox News has learned that Pence will ride a motorcycle on Saturday, June 3, a vital stop on the Iowa Republican political calendar, to Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa’s annual “Roast and Ride” motorcycle ride. This year’s event benefits the Freedom Foundation, an organization that supports veterans based in Cedar…

UW-L political science professor Dr. Anthony Chergosky in the WIZM studio Friday for La Crosse Talk PM, discussing a new poll showing who Republicans and Democrats trust most in the media. We also discuss Donald Trump’s CNN town hall, the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly who basically admits to wasting $2 million in taxpayer money. La Crosse Talk PM airs weekdays at 5:06pm Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Find all podcasts here or subscribe to La Crosse Talk PM wherever you get your podcasts. We…

BANGKOK (AP) – Thailand’s opposition won a stunning majority of the 500 seats up for grabs in the race for the House of Representatives, dealing a major blow to the establishment parties and the former general who has led the country since Southeast Asia since taking power in a 2014 coup. The results of Sunday’s general election are a sharp repudiation of the country’s conservatives and reflect disenchantment, particularly among young voters who want to limit the military’s influence in politics and reform the monarchy. But the exact shape of the new government is less clear as post-election coalition talks…

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Convoys of buses and vehicles filled with supporters of the Pakistani government are flooding the main road into the country’s capital Monday to protest the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Thousands of people are heading to the Supreme Court for a rare rally against its decision last week in support of Khan, following his arrest in a graft case. The 70-year-old former prime minister was released on bail and granted protection from arrest until the end of this month. The call for protest is a sign of escalating tensions between the judiciary and the government…

washington – Computer engineers and tech-inclined political scientists have warned for years that cheap and powerful artificial intelligence tools would soon allow anyone to create fake images, videos and audio that were realistic enough to deceive voters and perhaps influence an election The synthetic images that emerged were often crude, unconvincing and expensive to produce, especially when other types of disinformation were so cheap and easy to spread on social media. The threat posed by AI and so-called deepfakes always seemed a year or two away. Not more. Sophisticated generative AI tools can now create cloned human voices and hyper-realistic…

Good morning. Over the past year and a half, I’ve been watching to see what effects the political backlash against ESG might have on corporate behavior. And so far, I haven’t found much. Companies are certainly becoming more cautious about speaking out on controversial social and political issues, hoping to stay out of the political fray. But most corporate leaders I speak with remain committed to efforts to address climate change, increase diversity and inclusion, and address social inequalities. However, our new survey of Fortune 500 CEOs got me thinking. This is the question we asked: As you know, there…