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By Eli MeixlerApril 27, 2018 5:40 AM EDTThe leaders of North and South Korea made history Fri stanley cup day, meeting one another for the first time at the beginning of a landmark summit between the historic foes.The two leaders shook hands at the military demarcation line that separates the countries since a 1953 armistice put an end to the fighting of the Korean War. South Korean President Moon Jae-In hailed the historic moment and North Kore stanley cup an leader Kim Jong Un said he was moved that his counterpart had come all the way up to the border to greet him.Kim and Moon seemed to communicate with ease as they greeted each other across the demarcation line. North Koreans and South Koreans speak the same language, though there are differences in dialect. According to Voice of America, the biggest divergence is vocabulary: while language in North Korea has reportedly not changed that much over the past half a century, South Korea has added a wealth of new words to the Korean lexicon, many of them related to pop culture or borrowed from English.After the two leaders exchanged pleasantries, Kim stepped over the border, becoming the first North Korean leader to do so.Read the full exchange below:Chairman Kim Jong Un: Irsquo;m glad to meet you. Irsquo;m so glad.President Moon Jae-in: Was there any difficulty coming here Kim: Not at all.Moon: Itrsquo a pleasure to meet you.Kim: In stanley cup deed, Irsquo;m so filled with excitement because of the meeting at this historic site. Flbb It s Jeff Bezos vs. Elon Musk and Richard Branson鈥擨n Space
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to guests during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Dec. 21, 2019.Scott Olson鈥擥etty ImagesBy Abigail AbramsJanuary 2, 2020 11:11 AM ESTThis year is an important one for Americans with di adidas samba sabilities: 2020 will mark the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act ADA and the 100th anniversary of the countryrsquo vocational rehabilitation program, which helps people with disabilities find and keep jobs.But even as these milestones pass, people with disabilities remain mo air force 1 re than twice as likely to live in poverty as nondisabled people, less likely to graduate high school or hold a job, and are overrepresented in prisons and jails across the country.Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to release a plan aimed at tackling many of these issues. In a 16-page policy, Warren outlined a series of proposals to reform Social Security benefits, boost employment for people with disabilities, increase funding fo yeezy r education and enhance protections for voting, housing and civil rights.Though we have made significant progress for the 61 million Americans living with disabilities, we have a lot of ground left to cover, Warrenrsquo plan says. People with disabilities are still fighting for economic security, equal opportunity, and inclusion and they are not fighting alone. As President, I will work in partnership with t

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By Madeleine CarlisleFebruary 12, 2020 1:23 PM ESTA Florida man who was arrested for allegedly driving through a Republican voter registration tent told police he dislikes President Trump and felt like 8220 omeone had to take a stand, according to an arrest stanley cup report filed in court papers.Timm s booking photo.Jacksonville Sheriffs OfficeGregory Timm, 27, has been charged with driving with a suspended license, two counts of aggravated assault against a person 65 years or older, and criminal mischief. The report said no drugs and alcohol were involved.The incident happened in the early afternoon of Feb. 8 in a parking lot in Jacksonville, Florida. The victims mdash; Nina Williams, 72, and Liura Collins, 65 mdash; told police that a car accelerated towards them and knocked over several chairs, tables and a tent, according to the report stanley cup . No one was hurt. Collins and Williams also told police that the suspect got out of the car afterwards, took a photo, flipped them off, and left.Police located Timm after receivin stanley cup g a tip about the location of his vehicle.According to the report, Timm told police that 8220 omeone had to take a stand when asked about the incident. He said that he had gone to Walmart to get food, noticed the tent and, per the arrest report, then showed police cell phone video of him driving at it. He also told police that he disliked Trump mdash; a statement which a partially redacted version of the arrest report filed with the Duval Dxvt This Summit Could Decide Whether the European Union Remains United
By Tessa Berenson RogersUpdated: January 31, 2017 9:55 AM [ET] | Originally published: January 26, 2017 2:04 PM EST;As President Trump prepares to announce adidas campus his Supreme Court nomination Tuesday night, three names have emerged as the top contenders.Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor all were under very serious consideration and [in] the final throes of the process, said a source involved in the decision, although as the days wound down Pryor faded over concerns that he ;d be the most controversial yeezy pick.Trump considered this choice as he made many others throughout his campaign and nascent presidency: wit salomon hout a clear chain of command, listening to the advice of many people around him in a hub-and-spokes type organization.The reality is itrsquo a bit of a free for all, everybody has an opinion, the source said.As Trump nears announcing his pick, herersquo what you need to know about each of the three leading contenders.Neil GorsuchJudge Neil Gorsuch, in an undated photo provided by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals/APOverview: Gorsuch, 49, is currently a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. He went to Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard, also earning a Doctorate of Legal Philosophy from Oxford University. He clerked for current Justice Anthony Kennedy. Gorsuch is one of the few Ivy League-educated lawyers on Trumprsquo list of potential nominees

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Kyle Kucharski/ZDNETZDNETapos key takeawaysThe xA0;Vivobook S 15, Asusapos; first Copilot+ PC, normally retails for $1,299, but is on sale on Amazon for $999. xA0;Itapos sleek and lightweight with a gorgeous OLED display, great battery life, and snappy performance. xA0;The nature of Windows on ARM laptops means itapos not yet optimized for certain apps and games. xA0;Asusa stanley thermos pos; first Copilot+ PC with the Snapdragon X Elite chip is the Vivobook S 15, a sleek and lightweight 15-inch laptop with a gorgeous display and ultra-snappy performance. Right now, itapos currently $200 off the regular price, making it a steal for some of the newest processor technology on the market. xA0;The chassisapos; minimalist, all-metal design is lightweight and airy, and it feels more premium than last yearapos Vivobook S 14. Itapos only 0.58 inches at its thinnest point, and it weighs just 3.13 pounds, making it particularly well-suited for hybrid or remote workers who want a powerful laptop with a gorgeous display that doesnapos;t weigh a ton. xA0;Also: One of the best lightweight laptops Iapos;ve test stanley coffee mug ed stanley cup is a remote workerapos dream machineLike all of the new Windows on ARM laptops released this summer, the Vivobook S 15 is fast and responsive with nice battery life, but it comes with new technology that isnapos;t fully optimized for all tasks quite yet, which could limit its use case for some users. xA0;For the average consumer, however, this is the epitome of a Pcuh So, Is the Pandemic Over Yet
Dimitri Otismdash;Getty ImagesBy Alice ParkJuly 13, 2016 6:30 PM EDTDoctors have warned for years that obesity can have unhealthy consequences, increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer. All of that can contribute to an early death.Now, a study published in the Lancet shows being overweightmdash;not just obesemdash;is associated with a higher risk of dying early of any cause. The results highlight that even slight increase in BMI can cause harm, says Dr. Emanuele Di Angelantonio, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the study. There is a progression of increased ris stanley tumbler k beginning with being overweight and continuing through all levels of obesity.According to the report, people with BMI readings above the recommended range who were considered overweight showed an 11% increased risk of dying early, defined as death before age 70, compared to people who maintained their recommended BMI. For stanley cup people with BMI between 30 and 35, the first category for obesity, the risk of premature death increased to 45%, and for those with the highest level of obesity, or BMI of 40 or more, the risk nearly tripled.The researchers looked at data from nearly 4 million people from 32 countries who were part of the Global BMI Mortality Col stanley water flask laboration. They excluded smokers. The data were collected to better understand how BMI is related to mortality and whether there were global trends that emerged across different region

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Thereapos no better time to be handing out gifts that acknowledge the fragility of our beloved planet than now. A persistent rise in the earthapos temperature is causing mayhem around the world in the form of severe wildfires and floods and this will continue to get exponentially worse unless we colle stanley straws ctively act. Eco gifts not only show that you care about the earthapos fragile condition but it gives others an implicit, gentle nudge to do the same. ZDNET Recommends ZDNET Gift Guides Looking for the perfect gift this year Hereapos a great lineup of gift ideas and resources to get you started. Read now There are so many categories in which you can look for an earth-friendly gift. Some no-brainers are those that safeguard both the planet and all of the devices that help you work and play. For instance, avoid smartphone covers that are made of plastic and instead pick up some that are made of 100% natural waste material, like flax straw, and are completely compostable. Or, you could pick up a bag made of ocean plastic that chokes marine life to death but only now in a chic, recycled avatar that could look like one from a designer boutique. The best thing about these gifts is that they donapos;t compromise on design and functionality or price, so thereapos no real excuse not to be buying them up i stanley cups n place of their polluting cousins.Must read:The best cheap tech gifts for under $100The best cheap tech gifts under $ stanley cup 75The best cheap tech gifts und Viqs Son of distribution employee creates veteran s memorial at local community park
Barack Obama s tweets on Nov. 7, 2012 after his re-election as US president.Lionel Bonaventure鈥擜FP/Getty ImagesIdeasBy Scott GoodsteinMarch 27, 2015 11:35 AM EDTScott Goodstein is CEO of digital-strategy firm Revolution Messaging and former external online director for Ob stanley cup becher ama for America.For much of our nation history, there have been insiders who aimed to quash competition within political parties. Even today, far too many party elites seem to think uncontested primaries are better. However, competitive primaries force an evolution of organizing m stanley flaschen odels and new technologies that benefits campaigns and the public. The lack of a vibrant primary in 2016 would put Democrats at risk of falling behind Republicans in bringing technology to bear on campaign strategy mdash; and that would be a big loss for both Democrats and the country.Primaries are the research-and-development stages for the nationrsquo political machines. It is during primaries that our p stanley deutschland olitics evolve. This is true of policy as well as campaign strategy mdash; especially online. Large organizations need deadlines to beta-test products. The Obama campaign in 2008 looked at the 50 state primaries as the best timeline to create new experiments, test them, and release finished products. Remember how well-oiled the Obama machine felt by the summer of 2008 when you couldnrsquo;t turn a corner without some form of Hope and Change bombarding you in a battleground state That didnrsquo;t happen

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Max Buondonno/ZDNETZDNETapos key takeawaysThe updated ThinkPad X1 Fold is Lenovoapos latest foldable PC that aims to make a 16-inch laptop more portable than ever.The design is surprisingly durable, while the display itself is gorgeous and colorful.Its biggest disadvantage is performance, which, for over $3,000, is too slow for most people to get their work done.Lenovo is no stranger to making weird laptops. Just last year, it strapped two laptop s stanley canada creens together and called it the Yoga Book 9i, to the delight of our contributing writer Jason Cipriani. Before that, we had a laptop with a seco stanley taza nd E-ink screen mounted to the back of the main LCD. And, somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, Lenovo shipped its first laptop with a flexible display c stanley thermoskannen alled the ThinkPad X1 Fold.Review: xA0;Lenovo Yoga Book 9i: A dual-screen laptop before its time, and Iapos;m here for itThe original X1 Fold was a tried-and-true, first-generation product with first-generation issues. With poor performance, bad battery life, a chunky design, and a high asking price, it wasnapos;t a practical choice for just about anyone. Now, Lenovo is starting to push its second-generation ThinkPad X1 Fold, which it sent me to review.The new version has an improved design, upgraded specs, and a similarly high asking price of $2,499 and up. The version Iapos;m testing costs nearly $3,300, which makes this one of the pricier laptops you can get. But what Iapos;ve found is youapos;re paying for its unique d Owvk DLA Troop Support creates Survivor Daily Rations for FEMA
The Earth s shadow begins to fall on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, as seen above Miami, Oct. 8, 2014.Wilfredo Lee鈥擜PBy Alex RogersApril 3, 2015 12:58 PM E stanley thermos DTThe moon will line up directly inside Earth shadow Saturday morning, creating a nearly 5-minute lunar eclipsemdash;the shortest of the century.At 6:16 a.m. EDT, the moon will first enter the Earth shadow and will be totally eclipsed at 7:58 a.m., according to NASA.Those on the West Coast of the United States will have a better chance of seeing the eclipse than those east of the Mississippi River, who will only be able to see a partial eclipse because of the sunrise. Indi stanley cup a, western China and parts of Russia will be able to see portions of the eclipse after sunset, while Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Africa and the Middle East won ;t be able to see it at all.Those that can ;t walk outside to see the Blood Moon can check it out online at the Los Angeles-based Griffith Observatory website, the skywatching service Slooh, or here at TIME. You can a stanley cup website lso tweet to NASA astronomer Mitzi Adams @NASA_Marshall , who will be taking questions using the hashtag eclipse2015 from about 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. EDT.It will be the third lunar eclipse in a series of four known as a tetrad, following those in April and September last year. The final one of the series will occur on September 28, 2015. Want a primer on the Blood Moon before taking a look Read TIME Science Editor Jeffrey Klugerrsq

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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETAt the tail end of th cups stanley e fall product launch season, on Wednesday, Google is holding its annual Made by Google event, where we can expect the tech giant to launch its latest tech, including the new Pixel phones and the latest Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds. xA0;Also: Made by Google event 2023: What to expect, including Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Watch 2, moreIf you want to experience the announcements as they happen live, you can tune into the Made by Google livestream on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Hereapos how. xA0;When is the event Made by Google will occur on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 10 a.m. ET. The in-person event will be held in New York City, where select members of the press, including ZDNETapos J stanley flask une Wan, are invited to attend. xA0;If you donapos;t want to miss stanley cups uk out on the action, no worries; Google will welcome the public to watch the eventapos happenings live via a livestream. xA0;How to watchYou can watch the Made by Google event livestream for free on the Made by Google YouTube channel xA0;or Googleapos website, which will automatically start streaming the event when it starts. xA0;Also: The best Google Pixel phonesIf you canapos;t tune in live, Google will post the event recording when the event is finished. You can also tune into ZDNET, where we will be covering every announcement live to make sure you donapos;t miss anything. xA0;What to expectGoogle is expected to release the latest generation of its Pixel phones, the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, wh Cjlk OpenAI apos newly released GPT-4o mini dominates the Chatbot Arena. Here apos why.
Taliban fighters from the Fateh Zwak unit storm into the Kabul International Airport, wiel stanley cup ding American supplied weapons, equipment and uniforms after the United States Military have completed their withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.MARCUS YAM-LOS ANGELES TIMES/GettyIdeasBy Phil KlayAugust 10, 2022 7:00 AM EDTKlay, a National Book Award-winner, is the author of Missionaries and teaches at Fairfield University s MFA program. His new book is Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless WarAs the Taliban took Kabul, the phones of veterans across America began lighting up with messages from Afghans theyrsquo;d worked with: Please help. My family is in danger. If I donrsquo;t get out Irsquo;m going to die. The Taliban had waged a murder and intimidation campaign for years, targeting those whorsquo;d worked with the Americans, whorsquo;d championed womenrsquo education, whorsquo;d worked in government. Now, with the American withdrawal and the collapse of the Afghan government, tho stanley mug se whorsquo;d believed in American promises were under threat like never before.One of those veterans receiving messages was my friend Elliot Ackerman. A distinguished novelist author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing and co-author, with Admiral James Stavridis, of the New York Times bestseller 2034 and e stanley coffee mug ssayist for the New York Times, Atlantic, and TIME , Elliot also had spent years as one of Ameri

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Astronomers transfixed the public in April 2019 when they released the first-ever image of a black hole, produced by radio wave data from a collaboration of telescopes around the world known collectively as the Event Horizon Telescope. Now, a team of phys stanley cups icists and researchers have developed the plans for the successor to that project: a $300 million investigation of the photon rings that surround black holes. The project is called the Event Horizon Explorer, and it is scientists hopes that the mission will clarify some of the extreme physics at the limits of black holes inexorable grasp on light itself. You can read about the EHE mission concept here. What we are trying to do now is launch a space mission that would improve the sharpness of the EHT images by a factor of 10, said Michael Johnson, an a stanley cup strophysicist at the Harvard and Smithsonians Center for Astrophysics, told the Harvard Gazette. A quick refresher: black holes are regions of space with such intense gravity that not even photons of light can escape their event horizons. Supermassive black holes, which can be anywhere from millions to billions of times the mass of our Sun, often reside at the center of galaxies, including at the heart of our own Mi stanley cup lky Way. The EHT unveiled the first image of that black hole, Sagittarius A*, last year; you canread astronomers reactions to that image here. Images of black holes really depict their shadows, or the region of space that is lightless. The areas surrounding man Ggtf Faster wireless charging coming soon to more Android phones, thanks to Apple apos MagSafe
IdeasBy Susanna SchrobsdorffUpdated: May 2, 2017 3:59 PM [ET] | Originally published: February 9, 2017 6:25 AM EST;Susanna Schrobsdorff writes the Its Not Just You newsletter on SubstackWhen I need to know how to dresslikeawoman who is better dressed than I am, I call my friend Brenda, who is a professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York C stanley canada ity. She is more than stylish mdash; she a wardrobe artist. Her advice is to skip the usual black when you want to feel confident. Wear white, she says. It an I dare you ; color. It the color of courage.This might be particularly true for those of us who spend half the day carrying around a cup of coffee, but she does have a point in general. After decades in which women tried to blend into a room of dark suits, a woman dressed all in white is making a statement. Consider Hillary Clinton. You can trace her rise and fall in white pantsuits. She wore white to accept the Democratic nomination, at her last debate and then, finally, at the Inauguration of Donald Trump, where it was anything but the white of surrender.In fact, you could tell the entire story of the past year in politics just by looking at what people wore or refused to wear. Nearly every controversial or inspirational moment has its own signature piece in the identity-politics collection. It started with the pantsuits and those red Make America great a stanley cup gain caps, and went right to pin stanley water bottle k pussyha

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TRACY, Calif.ndash; The yearrsquo wildfire season is one of the worst in United States history. As of Oct. 13, nearly 8.6 million acres have burned, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The Northern California Bay Area is being devastated by the wildfires. Neighborhoods are charred to the ground and the fires have taken 40 lives stanley straws , with fires spreading throughout several counties, specifically in Napa, Sonoma, Solano, Lake, Nevada, Butte, Calaveras, Shasta, and Yuba counties, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. In Northern California alone, there are 13 wildfires consuming over 221,000 acres of land. Major Disaster Declarations have increased from 7 to 1 stanley thermobecher 1 counties and over 5,500 structures have been destroyed. Along with the nearly 13,000 firefighters battling the blazes, the men and women of the DLA Distribution San Joaquin, California Fire Mission are doing their part by supplying critical items. Some of the items San Joaquin is currently providing consist of safety cans, fire shelters, first aid kits andfire hose fittings. Joseph Sousa, Bulk Division Chief holds his fire mission team in high regards. We [the fire mission team] support firefighters with the same level of service as our other customers, the warfighters. They [the firefi stanley termosmugg ghters] also put their lives in jeopardy, protecting people, lands and entities across the U.S. The San Joaquin Fire Mission team realizes whatrsquo at stake and unequivocally suppor Cnkh Do You Love Elon Enough to Put Your Finger in the Cybertrunk
By Alice ParkMay 17, 2024 10:57 AM EDTCases of a new group of mpox viruses are rising, potentially posing a risk to people around the world, according to health officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC . So far, the cases have been centered in the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC and have not spread beyond Central African countries where the virus remains endemic, the CDC wrote in a report on May 16. But health officials are concerned because this group of viruses鈥攌nown as clade I mpox viruses鈥攊s known to cause mor stanley mugs e severe illness than the clade II viruses responsible for the previous mpox outbreaks in 2022, which originated in Nigeria. Clade I mpox viruses have a higher fatality rate鈥攌illing anywhere from 1.4% to more than 10% of infected people鈥攖han clade II, which has a 0.1% to 3.6% mortality rate.The 2022 outbreaks spread primarily through sexual contact among men who have sex with men. An effective, two-dose vaccine helped to protect these higher risk groups and kept the infections from expanding into an epidemic. The current vaccine also works against the latest clade I viruses. But with a recent increase in global travel, health officials are watching for spread of the latest clad stanley drink bottle e I viruses outside of the regions where it is endemic. According to the CDC report, health officials in DRC reported that clade I infections were reported in 25 of 26 provinces of the country, and that young people were the stanley bottles hardest hit: 67% of cases and 78% of

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By Tara JohnMay 3, 2016 8:40 AM EDTTony Blair office has denied reports that former U.S. President Bill Clinton will campaign for the U.K. to stay within the European Union.The Times of London reported on Tuesday that Clinton would fly to the U.K. and reinforce the message made by U.S. President Barack Obama less than two-weeks ago, where he intervened against Brexit ; during a pres stanley cup s conference in London.It has no basis in truth says Julie Crowley, who is Blair head of press office and external relations. Bill Clinton is not coming, there has never been any discussion.According to the Times, former British Prime Minister Blair had arranged Clin stanley cup ton upcoming trip to the U.K.Hillary Clinton position on the referendum was made clear in a statement to the Observer in April. The Democratic candidate senior policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, told the Observer: Hillary Clinton believes that transatlantic cooperation is essential, and that cooperation is strongest when Europe is united. She has always valued a strong United Kingdom in a strong E.U. And she values a strong British voice in the E.U.Mor stanley cup e Must-Reads from TIMEHow the Economy is Doing in the Swing StatesHarris Battles For the Bro VoteOur Guide to Voting in the 2024 ElectionMel Robbins Will Make You Do ItWhy Vinegar Is So Good for YouYou Dont Have to Dread the End of Daylight SavingThe 20 Best Halloween TV Episodes of All TimeMeet TIME Vseh Steve Bannon Writes His Goals on a Whiteboard. Someone Just Posted a Photo of It
Japan s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrives at Joint Base Andrews for a visit to the U.S. in the Washington D.C. suburbs in U.S. on April 15, 2021.The Yomiuri Shimbuni/AP ImagesBy Amy GuniaApril 15, 2021 11:46 PM EDTPresident Joe Biden will forgo the usual video call for his first in-person meeting with a foreign leader on Friday, when Japan Prime Minister Y reebok oshihide Suga, who is fully vaccinated, meets Biden at the White House.A new president first meeting slot with a foreign leader is normally reserved for top allies. Biden predecessor President Donald Trump held his first get-together with British Prime Minister Theresa May although he met former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for an informal 90-minute conversation at Trump Tower in New York before his inauguration .Experts say that Biden choice to meet Suga before other world leaders shows that he sees some of the most important issues facing his administrationmda jordan sh; including how to deal with Chinamdash;as being located in the Indo-Pacific region.Biden 8216 decision to hold his first in-person summit with Suga sends a strong signal about Japan importance as a partner in dealing with some of the biggest challenges facing nike dunk the United States and the importance of the Indo-Pacific region in Biden 8216 foreign policy, says Kristi Govella, an assistant professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawailsquo;i at M 257;noa.Countering Trump Am

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For as much as Facebook wants to say its not interested in politics, it just cant seem to keep from getting its hand caught in the political cookie jar. This week, Facebooks parent company found itself on the receiving end of a $24.7 million finefor allegedly violating Washington State campaign finance disclosure laws 822 times in less than four years. If Meta ends up paying it which they don stanley termosar t exactly seem eager to do the fine would represent the largest campaign finance penalty ever levied stanley thermo in the United States. In his ruling Washington State judge Douglass North said Meta intentionally violated Washingtons Fair Campaign Practices Act 822 times since December 2018. The intentional distinction there is important because fines for each individual violation tap out at $10,000. Those can be tripled though if a judge rules the violations were intentional. The nearly $25 million fine now represents the maximum allowed for the violations. I have one word for Facebooks conduct in this case鈥攁rrogance, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement. Washingtons campaign finance laws, stricter than many other states, requires Meta and any other ad seller in the state to track and maintain identifying details about its advertisements. Those details include the name stanley mug s of individuals who purchased the ads, who those ads were targeted to, and the total number of views for each of those ads. Meta has vigorously opposed the disclosure laws on principle even going Heyu Uber is working on its own AI chatbot, reveals CEO
Ohio government statehouse in Columbus.Getty Images/iStockphotomdash;Copyright 2019 Christopher BoswellBy Alejandro de la GarzaMarch 29, 2023 4: stanley quencher 45 PM EDTIf you attend a college-level earth science class in Ohio in the coming years, you might learn about how climate change is causing heat stanley water flask waves, flooding, and record storms, and how humanity has a shrinking window to drastically cut emissions and forestall the worst effects. But your instructor could also be forced to spend a big chunk of time talking about how a few largely discredited researchers and fossil-fuel funded lobbyists donrsquo;t think therersquo really much of an issue. Thatrsquo because just last week, the state senate began debating the Ohio Higher Education Enhancement Act, which would tie the hands of instructors at colleges and universities from teaching effectively on subjects the state legislature has labeled as controversial, including climate change. Those institutions would have to guarantee that theyrsquo;re encourag[ing] students to reach their own conclusions, on such matters, which also include subjects like abortion rights. The schools are also obligated to not ldquo eek to inculcate any social, political, or religious point of view on students. Higher education institutions would also be barred from implem stanley cup enting sustainability initiatives. Diversity or equity programs would also be banned. Classroom politics have been at the center of an intense national