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View More Newsfrom the party-of-law-and-order dept Stop me if you’ve heard this one: Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’s top official there, filling a vacancy that the president has never addressed. But the Trump administration has largely defied attempts by federal judges to fill vacancies, leading to Mr. Rogoff’s swift dismissal, via email, after 54 minutes. If this sounds familiar (and it should), it’s because Trump loves promoting people to US Attorney positions, but absolutely refuses to engage with the nomination process that’s required by law. This has happened more…
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Press Photographers Association, and other organizations in a joint message urging the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to reaffirm its commitment to the First Amendment at its rescheduled correspondents’ dinner on Friday. Since the April dinner was postponed, the Trump administration has intensified its attacks on journalists through the use of subpoenas targeting reporters, threats against broadcasters, restrictions on Pentagon press access, plans to shorten visas for foreign journalists, and public attacks on individual reporters. The message calls on the…
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Three thousand years ago, Homer gave us the face that launched a thousand ships. This weekend, Christopher Nolan gave us the film that launched a million grifts, and he buried them.His Odyssey opened to $124 million domestically and a whopping $264 million worldwide. The haul does not prove the film is good. It does prove that the seven-month social-media campaign against it face-planted the moment real people bought tickets.Their indictment ran on three charges. Nolan cast Lupita Nyong’o, a black actress, as Helen of Troy, the legendary beauty of the ancient world. Elliot Page, the transgender star, was said to…
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When former University of Pittsburgh student and freelance journalist Henry Bard tried to get records from his campus police department last year, the university…
Institutional crypto trading platform LMAX Group is working with Morgan Stanley (MS) and investment bank KBW, part of Stifel (SF), to evaluate strategic options,…
The Crypto Council for Innovation, Digital Chamber and Blockchain Association wrote to US Senate leaders on Friday calling for the chamber to prioritize “floor…
In brief Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Andreessen Horowitz, Hugging Face, IBM, and 19 other companies published a letter Friday titled “Open Weights and American AI…
Robinhood (HOOD) is giving retail traders a new way to automate investing: letting artificial intelligence make decisions and place trades on their behalf.Customers can…
Prediction markets platform Polymarket is reportedly considering measures to verify users in response to pressure from global authorities over sanctions violations and other areas…
In brief ElevenLabs launched Music v2, capable of switching genres mid-track, building songs section by section, and inpainting specific parts. Stability AI released Stable…
Read the Complaint for more on the factual allegations and on the remedy the DoJ seeks. The Introduction: On April 25, 2024, following months…
The U.S. cryptocurrency industry has flexed its campaign-finance might to help dethrone veteran incumbents and elevate new allies in Texas and other states as…
Monthly payment volume on crypto-linked debit and credit cards is up about 230% over last year, amid a proliferation of crypto-related payment products.Cumulative volume…
In brief A CNBC report suggests that Elon Musk aims to combine his firms SpaceX and Tesla as the former’s IPO looms. The pair…
from the that-doesn’t-sound-good dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the months leading up to the…