National/Federal After Helping Prince’s Rise, Trump and Kushner Benefit from Saudi FundsMSN – Michael Kranish (Washington Post) | Published: 2/11/2023 The day after leaving the White House, Jared Kushner created a company he transformed months later into a private equity firm with $2 billion from a sovereign wealth fund chaired by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. [read post]

The committee will hear testimony from Luis Almagro, secretary general of the Organization of American States; Deborah Ulmer, regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the National Democratic Institute; and Ryan Berg, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. [read post]

YouTube: No ‘deepfakes’ or ‘birther’ videos in 2020 election AP News – Matt O’Brien | Published: 2/3/2020 YouTube said it will ban misleading or doctored videos that could impact elections, tightening its rules ahead of the crucial presidential vote. [read post]

By Irina Strelkovskaya Background Yulia Tsvetkova is an artist and LGBTQ+ and women’s rights activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Far East of the Russian Federation. [1] In 2018, Tsvetkova began her activism and opened a city community center for civic initiatives, where she hosted weekly lectures, called “Living Library” sessions, to support groups for schoolchildren and mothers. [2] Also, in 2018, Yulia and her mother, Anna Khodyreva, organized a theater studio for… [read post]