Month: June 2023

The City of Pittsburgh this week took steps to resolve a long-running legal dispute involving its police bureau and to invest in technology that could provide evidence in similar disputes in the future. Without discussion Wednesday, the council approved a $275,000 settlement to settle a lawsuit filed after a 2020 protest in East Liberty resulted in nearly two dozen arrests and conflicting accounts of the conduct of police and protesters . The lawsuit was filed on behalf of six adults and a child weeks after the June 1, 2020 protest, one of countless demonstrations across the country that followed the…

Alex Soros, son of billionaire financier George Soros, met with senior Democrats shortly after taking the reins of the powerful Open Society Foundations (OSF), continuing his long-standing trend of meeting privately with influential politicians and publish the meetings publicly. The meeting appears to be his first with federal lawmakers since he took control of his father’s robust multibillion-dollar nonprofit network that injects large sums into leftist efforts. On June 11, OSF announced that Alex would take over the network after the elder Soros did not want to hand it over to any of his children. George, however, finally said, “He’s…

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that, if elected president, he would seek to close four federal agencies as part of an effort to shrink the size of government. “We’d do Education, we’d do Commerce, we’d do Energy and we’d do IRS,” DeSantis. he said in an interview with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum when asked if she was in favor of closing any agencies. “If Congress works with me to do this, we can reduce the size and scope of government,” he added. “If Congress doesn’t go that far, I will use these agencies to push back against the woke,…

Two years after taking the stand at one The investigation by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has found that former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian engaged in serious corrupt conduct. Berejiklian is ICAC’s latest high-profile political victim, but not the first. The former prime minister joins a long list of powerful political careers derailed after being investigated by the country’s oldest corruption watchdog. NSW Premier Chris Minns says he does not believe members of parliament should automatically resign or be suspended amid an ICAC investigation. Here are some big names that have been researched, with mixed results. The first great…

Sa lot to hold the nerves. Rishi Sunak seems to have lost his. He looks beaten. The man who has lived all his life inside a golden protective cage – the head of Winchester, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, the Conservative Party – is now powerless to avoid defeat. The real world has finally caught up with him. Or him with him. There are no easy solutions. Only barely managed relegation. It is no longer a question of whether it fails. The only game in town is when. You can feel the desperation in Sunak’s body language. His shoulders are hunched. A…

CNN — President Joe Biden often explains his simple theory of winning elections with his father’s kitchen-table wisdom: “Don’t compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.” But his big speech in Chicago on Wednesday — devoted to enshrining “Bidenomics” as a credible idea in the public mind — implicitly acknowledged that comparisons with the “alternative” in November 2024 (quite possibly Donald Trump) may not be enough to win re-election. In 2020, Biden won the White House promising a return to normalcy after a pandemic that dealt punishing economic blows. He had the advantage of running against an…

CNN — Nearly five months after Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced his hold on Defense Department nominees, the tactic has become a major point of interest in the U.S. Senate as institutionalists in the body express their concern that retention may have long-term repercussions and openly warn. a review of the nomination process might be necessary. Despite the efforts of Republican colleagues, Tuberville has been resolute, holding off on the nomination of some 250 military nominees, many promotions that would normally be fast-tracked in the Senate. The dramatic impasse has senators openly questioning whether it’s time for the body…

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