Walz removes top Minnesota official on eve of ‘gauntlet’ hearing over fraud scandal

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz removed and reportedly demoted the head of the state agency that oversees disbursement of social services program funding like Medicaid and housing assistance, after a months-long firestorm over hundreds of millions lost to fraud. The Minnesota Department of Human Services (MNDHS) was cast into the national spotlight after citizen journalists uncovered […]

Blockbuster Supreme Court voting rights ruling ignites redistricting war across Southern states

A congressional redistricting frenzy is sweeping across the South this week, after the Supreme Court’s conservative majority last week slashed a key Voting Rights Act protection, triggering new efforts by Republicans to quickly rewrite U.S. House district maps ahead of this year’s midterm elections. Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee are the latest battlegrounds in a nearly […]

Meta Sued for Copyright Infringement on AI Training

Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.

James Murdoch Ready to Buy New York Magazine: Report

James Murdoch is in late-stage talks to buy Vox Media’s New York Magazine and podcast division, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.The deal is through his ​Lupa Systems investment company and is not final yet, the report…

Reporter’s Notebook: Congress passes short-term FISA 702 fix, delays long-term renewal

If you give them an inch, they may take a mile. And if you give Congress a deadline, they’ll probably take 13 days. Or perhaps 45. Congress recently struggled to reauthorize the nation’s most effective, and arguably most controversial, spying program. After much division, lawmakers only renewed Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act […]

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