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Ethics watchdogs are calling for more teeth in disclosure laws for limited liability companies and their ownership. The group Reinvent Albany on Friday called for passage of a measure that would strip owners of limited liability companies, pointing to the prominence of LLCs in political campaigns and the potential for money laundering through shell companies. LLCs are behind a significant amount of campaign cash in New York, but their names and ownership are often opaque, making it difficult to discern who is behind the giving. A change to the law in 2019 required more disclosure for LLCs when used as…

A Friday morning session in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature descended into chaos after a Democratic lawmaker began calling out her support for transgender people in the middle of a debate over a bill to ban gender-changing procedures. sex to the minors of the state. The bill, which was eventually approved by lawmakers and sent to Republican Gov. Jim Pillen’s desk to become law, bans sex-change procedures for minors as well as abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy Voicing her disapproval of the measure Friday morning, Democratic state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh slapped the lectern and repeatedly shouted, “Transgender people belong here, we…

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. A booth stands ready for a voter on February 24, 2020 at City Hall…

Twenty new county clerks have taken office in Utah since 2020, and three counties have seen multiple new clerks during those years, meaning 17 of the state’s 29 counties have clerks with three or fewer years of experience. While the causes of the recent turnover are varied, including the retirement of Salt Lake County Clerk Sherrie Swensen, some officials have pointed to increased tensions around election administrations as part of the problem. That’s why state lawmakers have begun exploring additional legal protections for poll workers, possibly including enhanced penalties for those who make threats against poll workers. Ryan Cowley, the…

Hiroshima, Japan – The Group of Seven has called for “constructive” ties with China and insisted it does not seek to block the country’s development, even looking at Beijing’s rights record and territorial claims. In their statement released on Saturday, G7 leaders struck a balance between seeking cooperation in areas such as climate change and countering Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance, which has upended decades-old assumptions about the balance. of global power. Leaders of the club of rich democracies said they did not want to disengage from China, but acknowledged that economic resilience required “de-risking and diversifying.” “Our policy approaches are…

Oregon politicians have gotten a little too close to storage lately. Former Secretary of State Shemia Fagan resigned this month after WW revealed she was preparing a cannabis suit. But for some of us, this scandal raised a question: Which Oregon politician would you most like to smoke a joint with? So we asked her the last question of our traveling civility quiz, called Hot Mic. Zave Payne, a filmmaker at Reed College, asked patrons at the Portland Farmers Market in the Park Blocks which politicians would be in their heavy-hitting dream rotation. The most common answer? Governor Tina Kotek….

Aliquippa, Pa. — One person has died and two others have been injured after an accident in Aliquippa. Beaver County dispatchers say emergency crews were called to Station Street around 9:00 p.m. #BREAKING: One person is dead, another was taken to the hospital and a third was taken by ambulance after a crash in Aliquippa, according to Beaver County Dispatch It happened on Carrer de l’Estació. Now let’s go there, on @WPXI 11 @ 11 for the last ones pic.twitter.com/8d01gGdHdl — Andrew Havranek 📺 (@Andrew_Havranek) May 21, 2023 Investigators say one person was dead when crews arrived. One person had…

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