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A Pennsylvania woman has been sentenced to two life terms without parole on murder convictions in the deaths of her two young children, who were found hanging in the basement of their home five years ago. Lisa Snyder, 41, was convicted last month of two counts of first-degree murder in the September 2019 deaths of 4-year-old Brinley and 8-year-old Conner, who were taken off life support and died three days after they were found in the home in Albany Township, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia. Snyder displayed no reaction during Thursday’s hearing in Berks County and spoke only to decline to address the court, the Reading Eagle [reported](https://www.readingeagle.com/2024/10/17/convicted-child-killer-lisa-snyder-sentenced-to-two-life-terms-in-prison/). President Judge Theresa Johnson, who also imposed another 8 1/2 to 17 years on child endangerment and evidence-tampering convictions, called the crime the most violent murder she had seen in her time on the bench and also said the defendant had never shown any remorse.
www.nbcnews.com
**_The Afghanistan-based terror group has revamped its online recruiting tactics, experts say, as it seeks to carry out attacks against the U.S. and other Western countries._** The[ Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/what-isis-k-islamic-state-group-s-affiliate-behind-kabul-n1277750) has ramped up its recruitment efforts in the past year, American officials and analysts say, rolling out a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to persuade disaffected Muslims to carry out terror plots in the U.S. and other Western countries. The recent arrest of an Afghan[ accused of plotting an Election Day attack](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/afghan-national-living-us-charged-allegedly-plotting-election-day-terr-rcna174606) in the U.S., as well as recent plots in [France](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/relative-afghan-accused-terror-plot-us-charged-planning-attacks-france-rcna175195), [Sweden](https://www.dw.com/en/germany-charges-is-supporters-with-sweden-attack-plot/a-70009697) and elsewhere, highlight the growing threat posed by [ISIS-K](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/what-isis-k-islamic-state-group-s-affiliate-behind-kabul-n1277750), officials and counterterrorism experts say. Seeking to rally support and recruit from a range of Muslim diaspora communities in Europe and the U.S., the group has churned out a high volume of videos and articles in more than a dozen languages, including Dari and Pashto, the two primary languages spoken in Afghanistan.
www.nbcnews.com
**_Musk announced Saturday that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a randomly selected voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC._** Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday that tech mogul Elon Musk’s plan to give money to registered voters in Pennsylvania is “deeply concerning” and “it’s something that law enforcement could take a look at.” Shapiro’s comments on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” come one day after Musk announced in Pennsylvania that every day until Election Day, he would give $1 million to a random registered voter who signs a petition circulated by his super PAC “in favor of free speech and the right to bear arms.” The super PAC has made signing the petition a prerequisite for attending rallies headlined by Musk, and on Saturday he surprised one rally attendee by giving away the first $1 million check onstage.
www.newsweek.com
North Korea has said it had found the remnants of a South Korean military drone and that any further "violation" of its territory would result in a "declaration of war." Tensions between the two sides of the peninsula have escalated since May when the North began flying balloons carrying garbage across the border to the South, prompting Seoul to respond by restarting loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts. This week, [North Korea accused South Korea of flying drones over Pyongyang](https://www.newsweek.com/north-korea-ready-attack-south-after-alleged-drones-over-pyongyang-1968414) on three occasions this month and threatened to respond with force if it happened again.
www.theguardian.com
**_Andrei Kelin says by providing weapons Britain is ‘killing Russian soldiers and civilians’_** Moscow’s ambassador to London has said the UK is waging a proxy war against Russia, while predicting the “end of Ukraine” as Russian invading forces make deeper advances into the country. … The comments came as Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, renewed his appeal to western countries for air-defence systems, after Russian missile strikes on the central city of Kryvyi Rih late on Saturday wounded 17 people, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukraine is losing its territory in its eastern Donbas region to Russia’s invading forces, while coming under sustained bombardment, but has yet to convince western allies to provide it [with long-range missiles](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/10/zelenskyy-at-no-10-for-talks-with-starmer-and-nato-secretary-general) to strike Russian military targets.
www.theguardian.com
**_Research at the Francis Crick Institute could lead to new drugs to counter progress of diseases like Alzheimer’s_** British scientists are about to launch a remarkable research project that will demonstrate how the air we breathe can affect our brains. This work will be vital, they say, in understanding a major medical problem: how atmospheric pollution can trigger dementia. In recent years, scientists have discovered that air pollution is one of the most pernicious threats to human health and have shown it is involved in causing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, low birthrates, and many health conditions. Now scientists at the [Francis Crick Institute](https://www.crick.ac.uk/) are to look at its involvement in the phenomenon of neurodegeneration through a research project, titled Rapid, which is being funded by the charity Race Against Dementia and will be launched tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com
**_Extortion rackets killed seven people in less than 12 hours in Lima recently, despite a two-month state of emergency_** Late into the night, mothers chanted for justice outside their children’s school in Lima after a teacher was gunned down in front of his students in the latest and most shocking example of a surge in gang violence in Peru. CCTV footage of the incident on Monday showed panicked children running inside the school as the body of Julio César Pacheco lay slumped inside the blue metal gates of Julio C Tello in the working-class Ate Vitarte neighborhood in the capital’s east. He had been shot dead by an assassin pretending to deliver a legal notice. **The daylight murder marked a tragic new low in a crime wave that has seen a surge of racketeering and murder**. The crisis sparked two days of strikes as workers expressed their fury at what they saw as **dismal law enforcement, poor leadership by an unpopular government and a deliberate weakening of anti-crime legislation by the loathed congress**.
www.theguardian.com
**_Thousands of supporters, including Usher, rally in battleground Georgia, as campaign focuses on early votes_** Kamala Harris **highlighted the threat to women’s reproductive rights and Donald Trump’s apparent exhaustion at a rally** Saturday in south Atlanta, continuing a full-court press for votes in Georgia as early voting breaks records here. The race continues to appear close in Georgia, with polls suggesting the Republican nominee holds a one-point lead in the state. Trump has made multiple appearances in Georgia and has a rally with Turning Point Action planned in Gwinnett county, outside [Atlanta](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/atlanta), next week. However, the National Rifle Association canceled a planned Saturday rally with Trump in Savannah, citing a “scheduling conflict”. Trump has also canceled several news interviews over the last week. The Trump campaign has [angrily pushed back](https://apnews.com/article/trump-energy-exhausted-harris-election-9991a8973f6d22b8955d01cf0b169cb3) against a suggestion raised by a staffer that Trump had been exhausted by the appearances. But Harris has seized the idea as a rallying cry. “And now, he’s ducking debates, and canceling interviews because of exhaustion,” Harris said. “And when he does answer a question or speak at a rally, have you noticed that he tends to go off script and ramble, and generally for the life of him can’t finish a thought? … Folks are exhausted with someone trying to have Americans point their fingers at each other. We’re exhausted. That’s why I say it’s time to turn the page on that.”
www.theguardian.com
**_Internet chatter and Oklahoma arrest of alleged would-be IS attacker indicate terror group’s planning_** After the [FBI arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/09/election-plot-afghan-national-fbi) planning an election day shooting on behalf of the Islamic State, the terrorist organization re-entered what has become one of the most chaotic news cycles leading up to a November vote. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of [Oklahoma City](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/oklahoma-city) admitted to investigators he and a co-conspirator expected to die as IS martyrs as they opened fire on crowds on election day, according to charging documents. Warnings about IS-sponsored or -inspired attacks in the west have intensified in recent weeks.
www.bbc.com
Much of Cuba is without power on Sunday as Hurricane Oscar approaches, two days after the country's main energy plant failed and knocked out power to 10 million people. Electricity supply was partially restored on Saturday, before collapsing again overnight. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said that authorities in the east of the island were "working hard to protect the people and economic resources, given the imminent arrival of Hurricane Oscar". Packing 85mph (140km/h) winds, Oscar is forecast to reach Cuba on Sunday afternoon local time, and could cause flash-flooding and mudslides in eastern areas, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
www.independent.co.uk
**_Sophia Rosing was banned from the University of Kentucky campus after the incident_** A college student who went on a [drunken tirade using the n-word 200 times](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/college-student-attack-black-classmate-pleads-guilty-b2595715.html) will now head to jail for a year. Sophia Rosing, a former student at the University of Kentucky, became infamous in 2022 for her rant that was captured on video and shared on social media. In the video, Rosing was caught using the slur at a fellow student and assaulting her. Rosing previously pleaded guilty to four counts of fourth-degree assault and other charges. When she entered her plea, she apologized to fellow student Kylah Spring and members of the Black community. This week, a judge in Kentucky sentenced Rosing to 12 months in custody and 100 hours of community service, according to [Lex 18](https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/former-uk-student-sentenced-to-1-year-in-prison-community-service-for-racial-slurs-against-student-worker). … **In the infamous video Spring said that Rosing struck her numerous times and kicked her in the stomach**. As Spring is explaining what happened to her, Rosing can be heard yelling at her in the background, calling the Black student the n-word and a "b\*\*\*\*" throughout the footage.
[Prabowo Subianto](https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-prabowo-subianto-general-president-8cd195ef82df36049db75cbc9bf1ca1d)was inaugurated Sunday as the eighth president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, **completing his journey from an ex-general accused of rights abuses during the dark days of Indonesia’s military dictatorship to the presidential palace**. The former defense minister, who turned 73 on Thursday, was cheered through the streets by thousands of waving supporters after taking his oath on the Quran in front of lawmakers and foreign dignitaries. Banners and billboards filled the streets of the capital, Jakarta, where tens of thousands gathered for festivities. … Subianto was a special forces commander until he was expelled by the army in 1998 over accusations that he played a role in the kidnappings and torture of activists and other abuses. He never faced trial and went into self-imposed exile in Jordan in 1998, although several of his underlings were tried and convicted.
www.dw.com
**_Police have arrested a man suspected of links to the "Islamic State" group and planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy. Prosecutors say he had been planning to attack the diplomatic mission using firearms._** A Libyan man with alleged ties to the "Islamic State" IS militant group was set to appear before Germany's highest court on Sunday, charged with planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin. The man was detained on Saturday in the town of Bernau in the state of Brandenburg, just outside the capital. Prosecutors said he was planning to use firearms in the attack. The suspect, named only as Omar A. in line with Germany's strict privacy laws, was detained in a raid by a heavily armed police unit in a Berlin suburb on Saturday.
Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with [air-conditioned trucks](https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-next-generation-delivery-vehicle-a2ebbfc7afec0eea2e036eef93bee4d9). The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026. Letter carriers have been working without a new contract since their old one expired in May 2023. Since then they have continued working under the terms of the old contract. Both the union and the Postal Service welcomed the agreement, which was announced Friday.
www.rawstory.com
Donald Trump's transition team is taking an unprecedented step and refusing to file the paperwork that would be needed as part of [the peaceful transfer of power](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/18/trump-transition-distrust-feds-00184404) should he win re-election in November. According to a report from Politico's Hailey Fuchs and Meridith McGraw, the Trump team's "[go it alone](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-out-of-control-2669442324/)" approach does deny them transition funding and assistance to assume power swiftly and seamlessly, **but by balking at doing the necessary paperwork, it allows them to keep hidden their plans and raise unlimited amounts of cash without disclosing who is making the donations**. As the report notes, "if Trump wins the election and continues to drag his feet on signing the agreement with the White House, it will limit the information he and his team can access to understand current federal operations and challenges."
www.theguardian.com
**_Recognized as a religion by the IRS, the group uses the religious right’s tactics, and their victories, against them_** Satan is a feminist now The devil works hard, but the Republican party works harder. Not a day seems to go by without anti-abortion zealots on the right advancing some cunning new plan to strip women of their bodily autonomy. As well as shutting down abortion clinics, Republican states are trying to essentially outlaw abortion pills: on Friday, Missouri, Kansas and Idaho renewed a legal push to drastically [reduce access](https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pill-mifespristone-state-lawsuit-f03bfe0d9b9fc04e4c8b01a1c6d16851) to mifepristone. Amid this hellscape, help may be at hand from a somewhat unlikely source: Satan. Or, to be more accurate – and since the devil is in the details – the Satanic Temple. Founded in 2012, [the Satanic Temple](https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/about-us?srsltid=AfmBOoqwS4LBVNttUjQO10uj2fttdIeI0AaZ0BKoAME5ATZ7aM6tKdXD) (which is not to be confused with the very different Church of Satan) is not about devil worship. Rather, it is about raising hell to fight for freedom from the religious right’s crusade to impose their beliefs on everyone else. “Right now, we have a minority religious theocratic movement, so entrenched in politics and getting away with whatever they want,” [co-founder Lucien Greaves](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/04/friend-of-satan-how-lucien-greaves-and-his-satanic-temple-are-fighting-the-religious-right) told the Guardian earlier this year.
www.latimes.com
* The payout reflects its rank as the largest archdiocese in the nation, with more than 4 million members, and a California law that gave accusers more time to file suit. * It also underscores the failures of church leaders to identify molesting priests and prevent them from committing more crimes. Clergy sex abuse scandals have rocked Catholic churches across the world, but few places have seen the financial toll of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. With a record $880-million settlement with victims announced this week, the Los Angeles Archdiocese has now paid out more than $1.5 billion. The bill reflects its rank as the largest archdiocese in the nation, with more than 4 million members, and a California law that gave accusers more time to file suit.
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There’s deeply cynical and then there’s things which might be illegal. In the first category we have[ an Elon Musk-funded PAC microtargeting Jewish and Arab communities](https://www.404media.co/this-is-exactly-how-an-elon-musk-funded-pac-is-microtargeting-muslims-and-jews-with-opposing-messages/) with diametrically opposed ads about Kamala Harris’s support for Israel or Palestine. Amazingly cynical. But then you have what I’m going to describe next which comes from another Musk-funded dark money operation. **They have set up fake sites impersonating the Harris campaign using fake policy positions and then sending out text messages also impersonating the campaign which aim to drive voters to the fake site**. (A lot of potential legal and regulatory questions turns on word like “fake” and “impersonating”, which we’ll return to in a moment.) --- 🗳️ **Register to vote:** https://vote.gov/
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Below are all the GOP lawmakers that voted against that bill:
House:
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Representative James Baird of Indiana
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Representative Troy Balderson of Ohio
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Representative Jim Banks of Indiana
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Representative Aaron Bean of Florida
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Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona
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Representative Gus Bilirakis of Florida
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Representative Dan Bishop of North Carolina
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Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado
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Representative Mike Bost of Illinois
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Representative Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma
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Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee
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Representative Eric Burlison of Missouri
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Representative Kat Cammack of Florida
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Representative Michael Cloud of Texas
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Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia
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Representative Mike Collins of Georgia
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Representative Eli Crane of Arizona
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Representative John Curtis of Utah
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Representative Warren Davidson of Ohio
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Representative Byron Donalds of Florida
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Representative Jeff Duncan of South Carolina
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Representative Ron Estes of Kansas
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Representative Mike Ezell of Mississippi
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Representative Randy Feenstra of Iowa
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Representative Brad Finstad of Minnesota
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Representative Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota
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Representative Russell Fry of South Carolina
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Representative Russ Fulcher of Idaho
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Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida
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Representative Tony Gonzales of Texas
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Representative Bob Good of Virginia
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Representative Lance Gooden of Texas
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Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona
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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia
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Representative Morgan Griffith of Virginia
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Representative Michael Guest of Mississippi
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Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming
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Representative Andy Harris of Maryland
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Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana
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Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio
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Representative John Joyce of Pennsylvania
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Representative Trent Kelly of Mississippi
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Representative Darin LaHood of Illinois
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Representative Laurel Lee of Florida
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Representative Debbie Lesko of Arizona
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Representative Greg Lopez of Colorado
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Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida
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Representative Morgan Lutrell of Texas
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Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina
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Representative Tracey Mann of Kansas
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Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky
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Representative Tom McClintock of California
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Representative Rich McCormick of Georgia
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Representative Mary Miller of Illinois
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Representative Max Miller of Ohio
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Representative Cory Mills of Florida
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Representative Alex Mooney of West Virginia
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Representative Barry Moore of Alabama
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Representative Nathaniel Moran of Texas
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Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina
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Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee
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Representative Gary Palmer of Alabama
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Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania
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Representative Bill Posey of Florida
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Representative John Rose of Tennessee
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Representative Matt Rosendale of Montana
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Representative Chip Roy of Texas
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Representative David Schweikert of Arizona
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Representative Keith Self of Texas
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Representative Victoria Spartz of Indiana
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Representative Claudia Tenney of New York
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Representative William Timmons of South Carolina
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Representative Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey
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Representative Beth Van Duyne of Texas
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Representative Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin
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Representative Mike Waltz of Florida
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Representative Randy Weber of Texas
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Representative Daniel Webster of Florida
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Representative Bruce Westerman of Arkansas
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Representative Roger Williams of Texas
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Representative Rudy Yakym of Indiana
Senate:
- Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
- Senator Mike Braun of Indiana
- Senator Katie Britt of Alabama
- Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina
- Senator Mike Crapo of Idaho
- Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska
- Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
- Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri
- Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin
- Senator Mike Lee of Utah
- Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas
- Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma
- Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky
- Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska
- Senator James Risch of Idaho
- Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri
- Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina
- Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
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Not entirely sure what you're getting at. Are you suggesting that Taiwanese Indigenous people might have a problem that the Republic of China (Taiwan) is older than the PRC?
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Looks like AP dropped the ball on this one because that's not what the prosecutors said. They said:
...With his co-conspirators, LOPEZ REYES set up dozens of online pharmacy websites, designed to appear legitimate in order to lure customers into buying, at reduced prices, tablets of fentanyl, para-fluorofentanyl, and methamphetamine disguised as real prescription medications, including oxycodone, hydrocodone, Adderall, and Xanax, among others...
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OP's own “article” is copying exact sections from this Ars Technica article without giving proper credit: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/dell-says-sales-team-must-work-on-site-5-days-a-week-to-drive-productivity/
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Yep and as recent as 2014:
The national campaign to ban geoengineering can be traced back to Rhode Island in 2014, when a lawmaker looked to the sky and saw a conspiracy.
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Ms. MacBeth’s beliefs are better known as the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory, which posits that airplanes are secretly emitting dangerous chemical trails, as opposed to water vapor naturally released as condensation from planes’ engines, which turns to visible trails of ice crystals in the cold air. There is no evidence supporting the chemtrails theory, which has attracted many followers through social media.
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TikTok is fighting a possible US ban in January 2025 and was in court last week to argue the questions that you're raising: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/16/g-s1-23194/tiktok-us-ban-appeals-court
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Yeah, all vote tallies will not be released until after the polls close on Nov. 5.
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Exercise your rights and register to vote if you haven’t done so already!
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Welcome!
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This CNN article links to the clips: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/politics/jd-vance-kamala-harris-fascist/index.html
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It’s a bit more nuanced than that. The article doesn’t talk about it, but this NYT article touches on how these Chinese sites are exploiting the de minimis exemption loophole to circumvent US anti-forced labor law, which companies have to comply with to keep their supply chain free of slave labor (Uyghurs in Xinjiang for example):
Lawmakers are flagging what they say are likely significant violations of U.S. law by Temu, a popular Chinese shopping platform, accusing it of providing an unchecked channel that allows goods made with forced labor to flow into the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/22/business/economy/shein-temu-forced-labor-china.html
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Hah nice catch. Fixed.
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Huh? All federal judges in the US (Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges) are nominated.
Even at the state level, it's a mix of election and nomination based on the vacancy.
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Agreed. ChatGPT doesn’t like to cite sources. Microsoft CoPilot and Google Gemini do link to some sources, though not as accurate or thorough like Wikipedia.
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From the article, attempts to improve things are blocked:
When President Joe Biden and Harris first took office, Biden rescinded the Trump-era zero-tolerance policy and established a family reunification task force that found that more than 5,000 families were separated under the policy.
More recently, the Biden administration worked with a bipartisan group of senators to craft a comprehensive immigration and border security plan that seemed to have buy-in from both parties on Capitol Hill.
But GOP support for the bill tanked after Trump indicated his disapproval of the plan.
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Good catch. I’ve added it to the summary. Thanks.
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Wow, thanks for the kind words, @A_A@lemmy.world. It's nice to see such positivity on the internet, so keep it up!
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I used to be the only poster in health, so it’s refreshing to see you post here as well!