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Aug 12 2021
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U.S. to release census data used for legislative redistricting
The U.S. Census Bureau will release data on Thursday from the 2020 census that states will use to draw congressional and state legislative districts for the next decade, marking the start of what will be a fierce partisan battle over redistricting.
Demographers also expect the data to show that the country's white population is declining for the first time in history, with people of
Reuters
Aug 05 2021
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The Border Crisis Is Killing Americans, Data Shows
Enforcement Agency has called fentanyl the “primary driver” of the record 92,183 drug overdose deaths in 2020. Many drug dealers use fentanyl to make money and smuggle it through the southern border mixed with other drugs like heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine to make them more potent — and more deadly — according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
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The Daily Caller
Jan 09 2023
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USD/JPY slides below 132.00 despite mixed Tokyo Inflation data, focus on Fed Chair Powell
• Upbeat Fedspeak, long weekend in Japan allowed Yen bears to take a breather ahead of Fed Chair Powell’s speech. USD/JPY takes offers to refresh the intraday low near 131.60 as it prints a three-day downtrend even as the Tokyo inflation data fails to bolster hawkish expectations from the Bank of Japan (BOJ). The reason could be linked to the long weekend in Japan, as well as the wait for Fed
FXStreet
Oct 06 2022
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Who is Eugene Yu? Konnech CEO Arrested Over Alleged Data Theft
The founder and CEO of an elections technology company targeted by election deniers was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing poll worker data.
Eugene Yu, 51, of Konnech Corporation, was arrested in Meridian Township in Michigan on Tuesday and held on suspicion of theft of personal identifying information, Los Angeles County district attorney George Gascón said in a statement.
Newsweek
Oct 05 2022
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FBI data shows U.S. violent crimes decreased slightly in 2021
The estimated number of violent crimes in the U.S. decreased slightly in 2021, according to statistics released by the FBI.
Why it matters: The figures from President Biden's first year come as Republicans seek to make crime a major issue before the midterms, an issue that polls show voters give an edge to the GOP.
By the numbers: Violent crime volume decreased by 1% in 2021,
Axios
Jun 13 2021
Analysis
Feds Seize CNN Reporter's Data, Then Gag CNN
On Wednesday, CNN Executive Vice President and General Counsel David Vigilante made a revelation sure to startle those unaware of the state's vast power to not just seize information from journalists but bully their employers into silence about it under penalty of jail time.
"Since July 17, 2020," Vigilante wrote, "I have been bound by a gag order or a sealing order that prohibited me
Reason
Oct 02 2022
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‘Following the data’: DeSantis defends Lee County’s late evacuation order
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis defended the timing of evacuation orders issued in Lee County, which bore the brunt of the state’s fatalities from Hurricane Ian.
The southwestern county that includes Fort Myers and Cape Coral did not tell coastal residents to flee their homes until Tuesday evening, 21 hours before the deadly Category 4 superstorm made landfall on North Captiva Island.
New York Post (News)
Mar 28 2021
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Census data delay scrambles plans for state redistricting
Stymied by delayed census data needed for redistricting, some states are considering postponing their 2022 primaries or turning to other population estimates to start the once-a-decade task of redrawing voting districts used for U.S. House and state legislative elections.
The U.S. Census Bureau was supposed to provide redistricting data to the states by March 31, but after setbacks from
Associated Press
Jan 05 2023
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China Urges WHO To Take 'Just Position' On Covid After Beijing's Data Criticised
China called on the World Health Organization on Thursday to take a "just" position on Covid-19, after the body criticised Beijing's "very narrow" definition of virus deaths.
"We... hope the WHO secretariat will uphold a scientific, objective and just position, and make efforts to play a positive role for the world's response to the pandemic challenge," foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao
Barron's
Sep 07 2022
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Beijing's Plan to Control the World's Data: Out-Google Google
Few cases better show how U.S.-China relations have deteriorated in the age of Big Data than the response Wang Jiang got when he offered, at the height of the pandemic, to set up labs for COVID-19 testing in the U.S.
Wang is a known quantity in the world of U.S. biotech. He cut his teeth as a genetics researcher at the major public research universities of Texas, Iowa and Washington.
Newsweek