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Federal prosecutors on Oct. 22 announced the arrest of a Virginia politician and a half dozen others in connection with an alleged bribery and racketeering scheme.
According to an indictment filed Oct. 14 in the Eastern District of Virginia, state Sen. Lille Louise Lucas and six other co-defendants
are charged with conspiring to distribute and possess marijuana, conspiring to launder money, laundering money and committing bribery by distributing large quantities of illegal marijua…

Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas arrested, indicted on federal charges
Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas faces bribery and racketeering charges linked to her medical cannabis business.

For #FootpathFriday I chose an underground footpath that we followed during our vacation.
Not the type of adventure if you're a bit claustrophobic, but I really like such caves.
Enjoy!
#photography

An article on the Fall of Scientific American.
Scientific publishers should be independent. But:
"Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client."
Scientific American will be for many Semantic Web researchers a special place because of that one article by Tim Berners-Lee, Jim Hendler and Ora Lassila. Thus it's…

The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

Bucky's Breakdown: 3 areas the Raiders can clean up in order to get back in the win column https://www.raiders.com/news/bucky-s-breakdown-3-areas-the-raiders-can-clean-up-in-order-to-get-back-in-the-win-column

Bra rubrik 🙂 Det finns även en viktig poäng här kring folk som säljer påhittade lösningar på påhittade problem. Deras lösningar innebär inte allt för sällan ett hål i plånboken och till och från ger de också verkliga problem.
IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned - Ars Technica

The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.

In a lawsuit filed in federal court Thursday, department officials described the candidacy of a third contender in the race
— another Republican named Dan J. Sullivan Jr.
— as a bid to mislead supporters of Sen. Sullivan into voting for the wrong candidate.

DOJ seeks to block Alaska Senate result if Republican incumbent narrowly loses
In a lawsuit, the Justice Department cited confusion over two similarly named candidates, including Republican Sen. Daniel S. Sullivan.

Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer,
new research suggests,
with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.
Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.
Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August
as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas,
the researchers found.
The “…

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn
People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Accused of
‘Public Corruption’ in New Lawsuit
Donald Trump and a cryptocurrency company linked to his family members were sued Thursday over accusations that the president has
“corruptly” profited off of more than $2 billion in payments from a foreign government.
The lawsuit, filed by a shareholder for another crypto venture, centers two transactions between
World Liberty Financial,
a cryptocurrency company founded by Trump and …

Trump-Linked Crypto Company Accused of ‘Public Corruption’ in New Lawsuit
The lawsuit takes issue with transactions between the Trump-linked cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial and entities linked to the United Arab Emirates.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117486727541139720
It is incredibly abnormal for a sitting attorney general to float the possibility of interfering with an election,
-- especially one who believes the Justice Department is not independent from the president
(I…

The latest shudder for stocks in the AI industry pulled markets lower worldwide on Thursday,
while oil prices hit their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran.
The S&P 500 fell 1.2% for its worst day since July,
while the Nasdaq composite tumbled 2.6%.
The weakness for tech stocks was so overwhelming that it masked strength for the rest of the US market,
in which the majority of stocks actually rose.
The Dow JonesIndustrial Averag…

Sharp drops for AI stocks overwhelm markets worldwide as oil prices jump
Datacenter and chip costs fueled sharp decrease in AI sector although non-AI stocks still had a strong showing