Month: June 2023

Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., said only one poll matters, and that’s the poll on Election Day. Manchin’s office responded to a question Monday about a political commentator calling him a “dead man walking,” referring to his political future in West Virginia, as polls show him as much as 22 points behind from Gov. Jim Justice if he chooses to seek it out. re-election next year. “I don’t want to be mean to Senator Manchin, but he’s kind of a dead man walking in West Virginia,” David Axelrod, a longtime political commentator and former adviser to President Barack Obama, told CNN….

News from the Catholic world June 6, 2023 On June 5, Pope Francis appointed three scholarsincluding a Chinese critic of political equality and a prominent Australian theologian, al Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. According to his statutes, the academy aims “to promote the study and progress of the social sciences, mainly economics, sociology, law and political science. The academy, through an appropriate dialogue, thus offers the Church the elements it can use in the development of its social doctrine and reflects on the application of this doctrine to contemporary society. Members, who do not need to be Catholic, are appointed…

Sen. Joe Manchin, DW.Va., said only one poll matters, and that’s the poll on Election Day. Manchin’s office responded to a question Monday about a political commentator calling him a “dead man walking,” referring to his political future in West Virginia, as polls show him as much as 22 points behind from Gov. Jim Justice if he chooses to seek it out. re-election next year. “I don’t want to be mean to Senator Manchin, but he’s kind of a dead man walking in West Virginia,” David Axelrod, a longtime political commentator and former adviser to President Barack Obama, told CNN….

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (DN.Y.) recently proposed a bill this would require disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the creation of political ads. This is a timely bill that should garner bipartisan support and help safeguard our democracy. Recent advances in language modeling, exemplified by the popularity of ChatGPT, and image generation, exemplified by Dall-E 2 and Midjourney, make it much easier to create text or images that are intentionally misleading or false. In fact, there are examples of people already using these technologies to spread fake political news in the US and abroad. In early April,…

Breaking news broke in the NBA world as a Phoenix Suns hired the former head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers Frank Vogel this would be a long-term deal for both parties according to Shams Charania and Adrian Wojnarowski. Vogel’s recent success came in the bubble run with the Los Angeles Lakers when they defeated the Miami Heat in 6 games to capture their first career championship. He is also fondly remembered for his time coaching the Indiana Pacers from 2007-2016 with Paul George and that crew that consistently made it to the Eastern Conference Championship. He is a two-time…

Breaking news, Lionel Messi chooses his new team for the next season and surprises the whole world The tension that exists right now between Barcelona fans is amazing. The possible return of Lionel Messi it is a global trend. After playing his last match with Paris Saint Germain, the Rosarian has to decide which club he will play for next season. At the moment, there are very good feelings at Barça. The whole of Catalonia woke up to the great news that the Viability Plan, which Barça had sent to LaLiga weeks ago, had been accepted. This means that everything…

CHICAGO (WLS) — At least 23 people have been shot, including one fatally, in gun violence across Chicago this weekend, police said. sunday A man and woman were driving in West Town when they were shot Sunday morning, police said. The 30-year-old man and 29-year-old woman were driving in the 2200 block of West Walnut Street shortly before 3:20 a.m. when shots were fired, according to CPD. Both were taken to Stroger Hospital in good condition. No one has been arrested and detectives from Area Three are investigating. Hours later, a 17-year-old girl was injured in a shooting on the…

It caused an electronic signaling system error the train derailment in India that killed nearly 300 people and injured hundreds more, authorities said Sunday. The error caused a train to wrongly change tracks and collide with a freight train in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, creating a disastrous pile-up that also involved a second passenger train. Authorities worked to clear the mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday night in one of the country’s deadliest rail accidents in decades. A statement from the Odisha government on Sunday revised the death toll to…