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Apr 18 2024
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Colorado privacy law first to safeguard brain activity data
On Wednesday, Colorado expanded the scope of its privacy law initially designed to protect biometric data like fingerprints or face images to become first in the nation to also shield sensitive neural data. That could stop companies from hoarding brain activity data without residents realizing the risks. The New York Times reported that neural data is increasingly being collected and sold
Ars TechnicaApr 16 2024
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Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Using Obstruction Law to Charge Jan. 6 Rioters
The Supreme Court seemed wary on Tuesday of letting prosecutors use a federal obstruction law to charge hundreds of rioters involved in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021.
A decision rejecting the government’s interpretation of the law could not only disrupt those prosecutions but also eliminate two of the federal charges against former President Donald J. Trump in the case accusing him
New York Times (News)Apr 18 2024
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India Begins Voting in World’s Biggest Election
Phase 1 of the elections will be spread across 21 states and union territories, covering 102 parliamentary constituencies. Eight constituencies in electorally important Uttar Pradesh are open, as are all 39 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. Six states in north-east India, will also be voting.
Some of the most interesting matches will be in Chennai, Pilibhit and Saharanpur where heavyweights
BloombergApr 10 2024
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16 GOP Attorneys General Challenge Garland’s Comments on Voting Laws
GOP prosecutors say U.S. Constitution is clear in its direction to leave state elections up to the elected representatives of those states. A group of Republican state attorneys general are pushing back against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland’s comments made in March at a church in Selma, Alabama, where he discussed using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to interfere in state voting laws
The Epoch TimesApr 17 2024
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Law enforcement to conduct training at Congregation Har Hashem today
The Boulder Police Department and Boulder County Sheriff’s Office will conduct training today at Congregation Har Hashem in Boulder.
In a Boulder police Facebook post, the department said there is no need for alarm as the large police presence at 3950 Baseline Road is for a training exercise. The public will be able to see several police vehicles, K9s and SWAT teams, according to the
Boulder Daily CameraApr 15 2024
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Maine joins interstate compact to elect president by popular vote
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor’s announcement Monday that she’s letting the proposal become law without her signature. Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for president, regardless of how individual
Washington TimesApr 17 2024
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Former Mass. top prosecutor has law license reinstated
Rachael Rollins, the former U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts and Suffolk County district attorney who resigned last year amid an ethics investigation, had the suspension of her law license terminated on Tuesday, court records show. Rollins’ license was suspended earlier this year for nonpayment of fees, along with hundreds of other attorneys named in a request by the Board of Bar Overseers that
MassLive.comApr 17 2024
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Maine enacts new law on rail hazardous-material transportation
AUGUSTA, Maine — Railroads in Maine face new requirements for reporting the transport of hazardous materials in the state after Gov. Janet Mills signed an emergency bill into law on Friday, the Portland Press Herald reports. LD1937 was introduced last year following a Rockwood, Maine, derailment and fire that saw three crew members injured [see “Fire chief calls it a ‘miracle’ …,” Trains News
Trains.comApr 18 2024
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Richland County Republicans elect committee officers
The Richland County Republican Central and Executive Committee met April 9 and elected officers. Marilyn John is chair of the Executive Committee, Bill Freytag is vice chair, Lu Blankenship is treasurer and Zoi Romanchuk is secretary. Central Committee officers elected were Megan Whatman as chair, Cliff Mears as vice chair and Jane Zimmermann as secretary. Newly-elected members of the Central
Yahoo NewsApr 18 2024
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Election worker charged with equipment tampering has case tossed by Court of Appeals
KENT COUNTY, MI - The Kent County election worker accused of tampering with equipment saw the case dismissed Thursday by the Court of Appeals.
Holkeboer, a 68-year-old Gaines Township resident, was charged with falsifying records/returns under election law and using a computer to commit a crime. The charges stem from alleged tampering of a voting machine in the August 2022 primary
MLive.com