Special counsel John Durham is leaving federal court in Washington on May 16. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press Only John Durham can say why he continued as he did. The 45-year-old veteran prosecutor was tasked with investigating the FBI’s decisions related to the Trump secret investigation. Aside from an early guilty plea from an FBI … Read more
Gordon MacRae is escorted out of the Cheshire County Superior Courthouse in Keene, NH, September 30, 1994. Photo: Jim Cole / ASSOCIATED PRESS Father Gordon MacRae has been in prison since 1994, when a New Hampshire jury convicted him of sexual assault and sentenced him to 33½ to 67 years. The charges against him were … Read more
Trillions of dollars have flowed into environmental, social and government funds in recent years. In 2021 alone, the figure grew by $8 billion a day. Bloomberg Intelligence projects that more than a third of all global assets under management could carry explicit ESG labels by 2025, amounting to more than $50 trillion. But for a … Read more
Aug. 29, 2022 6:21 pm ET Dr. Anthony Fauci listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a Covid task force briefing in Washington on April 4, 2020. Photo: Patrick Semansky/Associated Press Tim Requarth in Slate, August 24: Like most rulers during a fast-moving pandemic, [Anthony] Fauci is wrong. Most notoriously, he got it wrong about … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention belatedly admitted error this week. “For 75 years, CDC and public health have been preparing for Covid-19, and in our big moment, our performance fell reliably short of expectations,” said Director Rochelle Walensky. She promised to establish an “action-oriented culture.” Lockdowns and mask mandates were the most radical … Read more
Photo: DADO RUVIC/REUTERS Federal Trade Commission lawsuit to break up Meta, formerly Facebook, seemed to lack merit when it was brought up in the final weeks of Trump’s presidency. But it looks even worse as the case goes to legal discovery. Despite approving Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram (2012) and WhatsApp (2014), the FTC now alleges … Read more
Covid was clearly a health emergency for adults in 2020. In contrast, it feels like it is now politically urgent.
A senior software engineer at Google was suspended on Monday (June 13) after sharing transcripts of a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) that he claimed to be “sensitive”, according to media reports. The engineer, 41-year-old Blake Lemoine, was put on paid leave for violating Google’s privacy policy. “Google calls this sharing proprietary. I call … Read more
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“Woe is me, for I am undone,” cried Isaiah. The court prophet had entered the temple in Jerusalem at a time of national mourning, and there he had experienced a vision of the Lord God in his holiness. What Isaiah saw then was his own sin. At the same time, the Southern Baptist Convention has … Read more