Former and current Justice Department employees believe that a future president Harris, a former prosecutor, unlike Trump, would respect the norms that have been in place to ensure DOJ independence in the half-century since Watergate.
Those fears of another Trump term are central to a new letter endorsing Harris, signed by more than 40 former Justice Department officials who served under presidents of both parties. They include former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former deputy attorneys general Sally Yates, David Ogden and Jamie Gorelick, and John McKay, who was appointed as a top federal prosecutor in Washington state during the George W. Bush administration, among others.
TikTok has been secretly collecting American users’ views on abortion, gun control and religion, the Department of Justice has alleged.
The DOJ accused the Chinese-owned social media giant of systematically passing information about its users to Chinese servers “in bulk.”
It leveled the charge in its first response to TikTok taking the government to court in a bid to overturn bipartisan legislation which would force its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The law forces ByteDance to sell TikTok’s American operations due to national security concerns over how the app’s content can be manipulated.
Apple, $AAPL, storefront employees in Maryland have secured the first-ever tentative union contract at $AAPL. The deal is pending approval by approximately 85 employees in the bargaining unit, who are scheduled to vote on it on August 6.Unusual Whales - News
A Russian national was arrested on Wednesday on suspiction of planning to sabotage the Olympic Games.
French police arrested a 40-year-old Russian man who it said was involved in plots to destabilise the Olympics.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Moscow had read “curious information” about the arrest, but needed more information from authorities in Paris.
It is currently unclear whether the two incidents are related.
The ‘coordinated’ disruption will see 800,000 passengers facing delays, with up to 250,000 affected just before the opening ceremonyJabed Ahmed (Yahoo News)
resident Joe Biden nominated former U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors on Thursday.
The nomination has been sent to the U.S. Senate for consideration.
[…] According to the White House, Demings’ term on the postal service board would expire in December 2030.
Happy Hour News The hits keep coming for President Handsome Joe Biden! resident Joe Biden nominated former U.S. Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors on T…Mock Paper Scissors
The Justice Department issued the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on the arrests of alleged leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael Zambada Garcia (El Mayo) and Joaquin Guzman Lopez:www.justice.gov
"It'’s not true. Once again, Trump is lying," Sanders emphasized. "Let me just simply say that for better or for worse, Kamala Harris is not more progressive than I am."
Several regions in Texas are already seeing benefits from the strengthening economic relationship.Texas Standard
Azerbaijani media reports claim Baku is preparing protests after a commentator on French public television reportedly called Armenians "our friends" and suggested Nagorno-Karabakh had recently "passed into the hands of the Azerbaijani Army."RFE/RL
A Ukrainian first-year cadet at the Ivan Kozhedub National Air Force University in Kharkiv crashed during a training flight on July 27, the university reported. The circumstances and location of the crash have not been disclosed.Kateryna Denisova (The Kyiv Independent)
Media are ignoring the company that made it, and who owned the companyThe Fucking News
The more Donald Trump praises foreign dictators, authoritarians and autocrats, the more he raises the stakes in the 2024 presidential race.Steve Benen (MSNBC)
Russian forces are trying to maintain pressure throughout the front to prevent Ukraine from contesting the battlefield initiative. — Ukrinform.Ukrinform
“OpenAI could be on the brink of bankruptcy in under 12 months, with projections of $5 billion in losses.”
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview with NBC News’ Ali Vitali that he would support a national ban on abortion after...YouTube
Tens of thousands of Toronto Jews oppose Israel’s holocaust in Gaza. But the mainstream Toronto Jewish community still promotes anti-Palestinian and Muslim racism and supports the ongoing genocide.Yves Engler (Mondoweiss)
The extrem right and catholique are displeased, to say the least.
Song were good and went from a very solemn Celine Dion in white singing Hymne à l'amour ; to hard rock group Gojira in the middle of beheaded queen and fire ;
With Paris techno seine ; Aya Nakamura with the Garde Republicaine ; Imagine sang in front of burning piano in a boat, a fabulous Marseillaise by the young black lyric singer Axelle Saint-Cirel, qnd Lady Gaga in a superb hommage to French cabaret...
The show want on and was great.
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