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☆ Kate, Princess of Wales conspiracies peddled by Russian disinformation group, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The motive of such campaigns, Innes said, is to “destabilize” Russia’s Western antagonists and “undermine trust” in their institutions. The pattern of behavior was one his team recognized from a group of Russian actors his team had studied before. It is a commercial firm contracted to run disinformation campaigns, Innes said. Aaron Chown/Press Association/APMeta said it disrupted the group, but its disinformation campaigns have since grown more sophisticated. The timing of the Kate conspiracies was also propitious for the Kremlin – coming just as Putin secured a fifth term in power in a stage-managed election devoid of credible opposition.

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☆ Trump complains in latest hush-money delay bid that Manhattan already thinks he's guilty, and Michael Cohen keeps saying 'Donald von Shitsinpants'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-30 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

This eleventh-hour effort to push back Trump's April 15 trial date is the latest of a half-dozen such requests since August. Bad polls, bad pressManhattan is not Trump country, the defense delay motion notes. AdvertisementPollsters surveyed a sample of 400 Manhattan residents, the delay motion says. Trump's motion implies that those sources were, or involved, Bragg, ignoring that the stories could have been sourced through multiple other individuals, including court staff, witnesses, and attorneys for witnesses. Advertisement"President Trump cannot get a fair trial in Manhattan County right now," the delay motion concludes, asking for unspecified adjournment "until prejudicial press coverage abates."

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The ruling, which extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access, happened a year after the court’s U.S. counterpart went in the opposite direction. Three years later, deeply conflicted by the inequality in abortion access, she became an activist and received training to become an acompañante. “We saw it in the United States.”Aguiar and her colleagues plan to keep advocating for reproductive rights. “To lead informative brigades and communicate that we can provide pills for those who can’t access abortion medication there.”It’s no coincidence that Lira’s views are influenced by migration. “But abortion access is just the tip of the iceberg.

Persons: —, P, Lira, ” Lira, Roe, Wade, ”, Sofia Aguiar, “, Eduardo Verástegui, Carlos Aguiar Retes, Rodrigo Iván Cortés, Aguiar, ” Aguiar, “ We’ve, Minerva, Monica Rosas, ” Rosas Organizations: World Health Organization, ”, Supreme, Information Group, Verástegui, Lira, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: TIJUANA, Mexico, U.S, Tijuana, Mexico’s, Mexican, Baja California, San Diego, Mexico City, GIRE, United States, California, Colombia, Central America

☆ European Union commissioner blasts X over disinformation track record
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —European Union officials on Tuesday called on large social media platforms to step up their enforcement against online mis- and disinformation, particularly about the war in Ukraine. “Disinformation actors were found to have significantly more followers … and tend to have joined the platform more recently than non-disinformation users,” Jourova added. The reports unveiled this week by the EU reflect transparency filings attesting to the companies’ efforts to live up to the code. The reports from companies, including Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok, cover a wide range of content types and enforcement actions by the platforms. “Russian propaganda and disinformation is still very present on online platforms.

Persons: Vera Jourova, Jourova, X didn’t, Google’s, TikTok, ” Organizations: CNN — European Union, EU, Digital Services, DSA, Google, Meta, Microsoft, European Commission, LinkedIn, YouTube, Internet Research Agency Locations: Ukraine, Russia

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Months after withdrawing from a data-sharing interstate compact to fight voter fraud, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's administration on Wednesday announced a series of recent steps it has taken to improve the accuracy of the state's voter rolls. Among them is the launch of new, individual data-sharing agreements with five other states and Washington, D.C., the Virginia Department of Elections said in a news release. “Secure elections start with accurate voter lists,” Elections Commissioner Susan Beals said Wednesday, two days before the start of early voting in this year's legislative elections. Virginia voters can check their registration status online.

Persons: Glenn Youngkin's, Susan Beals, ERIC, It’s, There’s, Aaron Mukerjee, Bob McDonnell, It's, Donald Trump’s, Beals, Andrea Gaines, Gaines, ” Organizations: Virginia Gov, Wednesday, D.C, Virginia Department, Elections, Registration, Democratic Party of Virginia, Virginia, Republican, GOP, Associated Press Locations: RICHMOND, Va, Virginia, Washington, Washington , Georgia , Ohio, South Carolina , Tennessee, West Virginia, “ Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland

A banner reading: "Abortion Out of the Penal Code" hangs from a building during International Women's Day, at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico March 8, 2023. The ruling set a significant legal precedent and paved the way for the federal health system to begin providing abortion services and broaden access dramatically. But Mexican abortion rights advocates say the ruling's promise of expanding abortion access will not become a reality overnight and could depend on the political and legislative will of the federal government. Aside from safeguarding abortion patients and providers from prosecution, the ruling will have limited impact on access until the federal public health system starts providing abortion services. Xochitl Galvez, the senator chosen to represent the main opposition coalition, has broken from her center-right party’s anti-abortion platform to support abortion rights.

Persons: Quetzalli, Maria Antonieta Alcalde, IPAS, Alcalde, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, Xochitl Galvez, Veronica Cruz, Roe, Wade, Isabel Fulda, Gabriella Borter, Stephen Eisenhammer, Josie Kao Organizations: REUTERS, Mexico City, Regeneration, Mexico's, United States Supreme, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Coahuila, Latin America, Caribbean, America, United States, Guanajuato, U.S

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican Supreme Court ruling that invalidated all federal criminal penalties for abortion continued a regional trend of widening access to the procedure, but left in place a patchwork of varying state restrictions. Political Cartoons on World Leaders View All 226 ImagesPolitical Cartoons View All 1146 ImagesSome 20 Mexican states, however, still criminalize abortion. Those laws were not affected by the Supreme Court ruling, but abortion rights advocates will likely ask state judges to follow its logic. Abortion-rights activists will have to continue seeking legalization state by state, though Wednesday's decision should make that easier. Some American women were already seeking help from Mexican abortion rights activists to obtain pills used to end pregnancies.

Persons: Sen, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Irma Barrientos, We’re, ” Barrientos, “, we’re, Fernanda Díaz de, de León, Díaz de León, León, Roe, Wade, Marina Reyna, ”, Geoff Mulvihill Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Court, Group, National Institute for Women, Twitter, Civil Association for, U.S, Supreme, Observers, Guerrero, Women, Associated Locations: MEXICO, “, United States, Mexico, Aguascalientes, America, Mexico City, Argentina, Colombia, Guerrero, Cherry Hill , New Jersey

☆ Mexico's Supreme Court upholds abortion rights nationwide, paving way for federal access
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Gabriella Borter | Thomson Reuters | Gabriella Borter Is A Reporter On The U.S. National Affairs Team | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Wednesday's ruling will increase abortion access throughout Mexico, marking a major victory for abortion rights advocates in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. In the United States, meanwhile, the Supreme Court struck down the national right to an abortion in 2022 and nearly half of the 50 states have restricted access dramatically. The court sided with GIRE in a challenge to the federal penal code and declared that the section of the national law that criminalized abortion could no longer take effect. The ruling opens the door for the federal healthcare system to start providing abortions, which could become increasingly important as Mexico mulls centralizing healthcare services, abortion rights advocates say. Aguascalientes became the 12th Mexican state to decriminalize abortion last month when the Supreme Court sided with GIRE in a similar challenge to that state's penal code.

Persons: Henry Romero, Wednesday's, It's, Isabel Fulda, Gabriella Borter, Aurora Ellis, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Supreme, REUTERS, Catholic, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, MEXICO, Mexico's, Coahuila, America, United States, Aguascalientes, Mexican

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access. Some 20 Mexican states, however, still criminalize abortion. After 40 years, the Supreme Court reversed its abortion decision, and we’re not going to stop until Mexico guarantees the right to life from the moment of conception." Some American women were already seeking help from Mexican abortion rights activists to obtain pills used to end pregnancies. Her state decriminalized abortion last year, but there are 22 open investigations against women accused of ending their pregnancies.

Persons: —, “, Sen, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Irma Barrientos, We’re, ” Barrientos, we’re, Fernanda Díaz de, de León, Díaz de León, León, Roe, Wade, Marina Reyna, ”, Geoff Mulvihill Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Group, National Institute for Women, Twitter, Civil Association for, U.S, Supreme, Observers, Guerrero, Women, Associated Locations: MEXICO, “, United States, Mexico, Aguascalientes, America, Mexico City, Argentina, Colombia, Guerrero, Cherry Hill , New Jersey

☆ Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion nationwide
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago. The impact also means that the federal public health service and any federal health institution must offer abortion to anyone who requests it, GIRE said. The court ordered that the crime of abortion be removed from the federal penal code.

Persons: GIRE Organizations: Mexico's, Group Locations: Mexico City, Mexico, Aguascalientes, America, United States

☆ The founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, the best-selling Black-owned spirit brand in the US, explains how she reached $100 million in sales
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Fawn Weaver founded Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, the US's best-selling Black-owned spirit brand. Uncle Nearest has generated more than $100 million in sales since its launch, information Insider verified with documentation. Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey. In 2017, Weaver opened the Nearest Green Distillery and launched Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, making storytelling the foundation of her brand's success. Fawn Weaver, founder and CEO of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey.

☆ 3 active-duty Marines who work in intelligence arrested over alleged participation in the January 6 riot
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Konstantin Toropin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Three Marines were arrested Wednesday in relation to the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. All three Marines work in jobs connected to the intelligence community. All three Marines, who were arrested more than two years after the attack, work in jobs connected to the intelligence community. Records provided by the Marine Corps show that among his awards was a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, an unusual and prestigious medal for a junior Marine. However, the men are not the only members of the intelligence community to be arrested for their alleged part in the siege.

☆ ION discussing earn-out price clause with DK in Prelios deal-sources
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Valentina Za | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The two sources close to the matter said ION and DK were discussing a so-called earn out clause, which would see ION pay part of the price at closing and the rest once the business hits certain financial targets. ION and DK declined to comment. Sources had told Reuters earlier this month ION was in discussions with DK over a potential acquisition of Prelios, on which the New York-based fund has put a 1.4 billion euro ($1.44 billion) price tag. Shortly before that, ION had snatched for 1.5 billion euros Italian banking software firm Cedacri. U.S. fund DK first invested in Prelios in 2017, buying other investors to take it private.

☆ Conservatives and anti-vaxxers are frantically lobbying Elon Musk to lift Twitter bans on their idols after he took over
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An assortment of conservatives are lobbying Elon Musk to undo Twitter bans on prominent allies. Musk has said he opposes permanent bans and plans to roll back moderation on Twitter. But Twitter is enforcing legal sanctions on the networks in the EU and UK which prevents people seeing their content. Twitter has said it never shadowbans anybody, though Musk said Friday he was "digging in" to the allegations. Evolutionary biologist and podcaster Bret Weinstein, who has long questioned COVID-19 vaccine efficacy, also called for Musk to reinstate anti-vaxxer Dr Robert Malone.

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