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The United States Department Justice (DOJ) has asked the United States Sentencing Commission to update its guidelines to provide additional penalties for crimes committed with the aid of artificial intelligence. According to a legal alert published by the law offices of White & Case, the recommendations seek to expand well beyond established guidelines and would apply not only to crimes committed with AI, but to any crime aided or abetted by even simple algorithms. Current guidelines, per the legal alert, only cover so-called “sophisticated” systems. Ostensibly, the new guidelines would make A...
Cointelegraph
A decision is here in the massive, multi-government case against Google. In an August 5 ruling, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held that Google violated federal antitrust law. The case stems from lawsuits filed by both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and several U.S. states. In the suits—now consolidated—they argued that Google held a monopoly on internet searches and search advertising and had engaged in "exclusionary conduct" to maintain this monopoly, in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Far from showing Google to be some sort of mustach...
Reason
The Republican Party has toned down the rhetoric about the deep state and any talk of vengeance against former President Donald Trump's political enemies in this year's Republican National Convention. With Trump in a commanding polling lead following a near-assassination, the convention's theme is "unity." "Just like our ancestors, we must now come together, rise above past differences. Any disagreements have to be put aside, and go forward united as one people, one nation, pledging allegiance to one great, beautiful—I think it's so beautiful—American flag," Trump said in his closing speech. T...
Reason
Free at long last: Yesterday, news broke that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be released from Belmarsh Prison, the maximum security facility he's been kept at in the U.K. for the last five years, and would be free to go home. Assange, who has been at risk of being extradited to the U.S. and prosecuted under the Espionage Act for publishing documents—an activity protected by the First Amendment—that the government says contain classified national security information, will plead guilty to a single felony count and return to his native Australia. Prior to reaching this deal with the U.S....
Reason
By Mohammed Kudrati Hindenburg Research - the activist short-selling firm that has targeted the Adani Group causing a massive meltdown in its stocks on the exchanges has not been banned from putting out research on United States (US)-based firms, as claimed by a viral message in India. The firm's founder, Nate Anderson, also took to Twitter to clarify that the claims on social media are not true. While the short seller was subpoenaed by the Department of Justice in early 2022 as part of a broader investigation into potential trading abuse, there is no evidence to show that this matter led to l...
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A man who dragged a police officer into the crowd that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Albuquerque Cosper Head, from Tennessee, pleaded guilty in March to assaulting the officer, Michael Fanone. Head admitted he grabbed Fanone around the neck and announced to the mob, “I got one!” Once surrounded by rioters, Fanone was beaten, kicked and attacked with a stun gun. Some rioters threatened to kill him with his own gun. WATCH MICHAEL FANONE’s INTERVIEW WITH uPOLITICS Before announcing the sentence, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Head was...
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The Department of Justice under the Biden administration filed an appeal Monday to defend former President Donald Trump against a defamation lawsuit being brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. More than a year ago Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a department store in the mid-90s after they bumped into one another while shopping. Carroll claims that Trump attacked her in the changing rooms and raped her. Trump has denied all allegations by referring to the event as “fiction” and stating that Carroll was “not his type.” Carroll filed a defamation suit in response to Trump’s denial. The DOJ’s...
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Former South Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, indicted on a slew of charges including sex trafficking of a minor, stalking, bribery and defrauding the COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program, has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department. Greenberg was closely associated with Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who is the subject of a federal probe investigating allegations that the representative had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. Greenberg has actually been in talks with federal prosecutors since 2020, the New York Times reports. Greenberg allegedly agreed to cooperate once ...
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WASHINGTON: January 20, 2021 – The East Turkistan Government in Exile welcomes President Joe Biden and his incoming administration. Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Applying United States Code To Genocide SanctionsOn Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnically Turkic minorities in East Turkistan (renamed Xinjiang) as both genocideand a crime against humanity. "Now that the US State Department has designated China's atrocities against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples as genocide, the United States Department of Justice mus...
ValueWalk
On Monday, the Justice Department stated that President Donald Trump could not be sued personally, but only as the president of the United States, for denying a rape allegation from 20 years ago, because he denied the accusation while acting as president.The DOJ made this statement after Attorney General William Barr’s decision to intervene in a lawsuit against the president filed in New York by E. Jean Carroll, a former writer for Elle magazine. Barr had sought to transfer the suit from state court to Federal District Court in Manhattan, making the federal government the defendant rather than...
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