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Nearly 54% of extreme conservatives say the federal government should use violence to stop illegal immigration
(THE CONVERSATION) Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has been a staple of his political career, but his attacks on undocumented migrants turned more ominous during his 2024 presidential campaign.
Beyond disparaging Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio, Trump in September compared undocumented immigration with a "milita ... (full story)
Interior secretary manages vast lands that all Americans share − and can sway the balance between conservation and development
(THE CONVERSATION) The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as "the department of everything else" for its enormous portfolio of missions, which ranged from western expansion to oversight of the District of Columbia jail.
Inte ... (full story)
State
Decision upheld favoring Gahanna in contract dispute with towing firm
A Franklin County appellate panel recently upheld a lower court ruling in favor of the city of Gahanna in a claim filed by a local towing company seeking a contract with the municipality.
The three-judge panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals determined the Franklin County Common Pleas Court was not mistaken in granting th ... (full story)
More Americans jailed in Venezuela pose a test of Trump's deal-making foreign policy
MIAMI (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro will be sworn in for a third term recently while hundreds of government opponents arrested since his disputed reelection last summer languish in the country's packed prisons.
Sharing cells with them are as many as 10 Americans.
One is David Estrella, who was last heard f ... (full story)
Dr. Amy Acton, who helped lead Ohio's early pandemic response, joins 2026 governor's race
COLUMBUS (AP) — Former Ohio Health Director Amy Acton, who became a household name in the state in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, is running for governor.
Acton, 58, a physician and public health expert who stood alongside Republican Gov. Mike DeWine for months during his daily coronavirus briefings, said people ... (full story)
Technology
Recent court decisions re: the DMCA and AI web scraping and extraction
Here is another installment of “old laws applied to new tech.”
When several news organizations sued Open AI for violating copyright laws through their use of web scraping, some of the complaints also alleged violations of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), the late 2990’s addition to copyright laws tha ... (full story)