Month: May 2023

Decline in foreign direct investment, short-term inflation, heightened political unrest after May 9 Imran Niazi’s party instigated attack on military institutions and increased terrorism-related fatalities, Islamic Republic of Pakistan it is today at total war with itself with the constitutional institutions that participate in the rot. File photo of May 9 violence in Punjab by PTI supporters after its mercurial leader Imran Khan Niazi was arrested in a corruption case. The Pakistan Army is humiliated by the image of its then Lahore Corps Commander, Lt Gen Salman Fayyaz Ghani, pleading with PTI rioters on May 9 to save Jinnah House,…

Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon accused of conducting cyber espionage against US targets. The US State Department has warned that China is capable of launching cyberattacks against critical US infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines as well as rail systems, after investigators found that a Chinese hacking group had been spying these networks. A multinational alert earlier this week revealed that a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign had targeted military and government targets in the US. “The U.S. intelligence community assesses that China is almost certainly capable of launching cyberattacks that could disrupt critical infrastructure services in the United States, including…

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she has violated patient privacy laws speaking publicly about offering an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio. The state’s Board of Medical Licensing has voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard did not follow privacy laws by telling a reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a political turning point in the national abortion debate days after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer. The board, however, rejected allegations by Indiana’s Republican attorney general that Bernard…

FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. – A woman was arrested after being accused of breaking into a restaurant over the weekend. According to a warrant obtained by Channel 2 Action News, at 1:55 a.m. Saturday, Rome police officers were called to the Harvest Moon Cafe about a woman who had entered the store. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Police said 23-year-old Callie Elizabeth Thweatt somehow got inside the restaurant after it was closed and opened the food coolers. Thweatt made a salad. Officers said he touched several foods with his bare hands, which made those ingredients not…

Texas lawmakers issue 20 articles of impeachment against state Attorney General Ken Paxton Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and allegations of corruption that the state’s Republican majority had kept quiet until now , AP reports. In a unanimous decision, a Republican-led House investigative committee that spent months quietly investigating Paxton recommended impeaching the state’s top attorney on 20 counts, including bribery, unfitness for office and ‘abuse of public trust. The House could vote on the recommendation as soon as Friday. If he fires Paxton, he would be…

Republicans introduced legislation this week to restrict bathroom use by transgender students. A group that sued the state over school vouchers demanded an apology from Ohio’s auditor, and craft brewers pushed for legal change. We break down what it all means on this week’s episode of Ohio Politics Explained. A podcast created by the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau to get you up to speed on the state’s political news in 15 minutes or less. This week, host Anna Staver joined state bureau chief Anthony Shoemaker. Ohio lawmakers are targeting school bathrooms A bill introduced this week by House Republicans…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was asked Thursday about the potential use of his pardon power if he’s elected president to offer clemency to the Jan. 6 defendants or even Donald Trump, and while he didn’t he answered directly, suggested that he would consider it. DeSantis made his comments while appearing on the “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show“In the midst of an early media blitz a day after launching a bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. “A big part of being president is pardon powers. Do you think the defendants on Jan. 6 deserve to have their cases…

The Hong Kong media mogul has been in jail since December 2020 and faces a long-delayed security law trial in September. UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has revealed he raised the case of jailed Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai with senior Chinese and Hong Kong politicians as the UK returned to criticize Beijing’s crackdown on freedoms in the former British colony. It was cleverly revealed in the foreword to the UK’s latest half-yearly update on the situation in Hong Kong (PDF) who had raised Lai’s case with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng earlier this month, as well as at…