Army 1st Lt. Stephen Holden Doane, Medal of Honor recipient. Photo By: Congressional Medal of Honor Society Yesterday, March 25, was National Medal of Honor Day, a day to solemnly recognize and honor the more than 3,500 Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines who have distinguished themselves “through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty…” Through a weekly series of articles called, “Medal of Honor Monday,” the Department of Defense highlights one of those heroes each Monday. We will try to post those articles on Tuesday. This one, by Katie ...
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Future political campaigns will increasingly utilize artificial intelligence generated content to mislead potential voters. About 1 billion voters will be going to the polls in 2024 in the US, India, the UK, the EU, Indonesia and Russia. However, neither AI companies nor governments have made serious efforts to protect and legitimize election information. There are concerns about fundraising scams using generative AI, a micro-targeting tsunami. With AI lowering the costs of content, specific messages can be aimed at undecided or unmotivated voters to induce them to reach decisions. Incendiary ...
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Greg Barton, Deakin University It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist terrorist attack. At least 133 people were left dead and scores more were injured after gunmen with automatic weapons stormed the Crocus City Hall in Moscow and opened fire, triggering a stampede. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, initially through its Amaq media channel and then directly. The modus operandi of the attack also fits with previous Islamic State attacks. It has been widely reported the att...
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U.S. Air Force image Monday, March 25, is National Medal of Honor Day. A day to solemnly recognize and honor the more than 3,500 Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines who have distinguished themselves “through conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty…” National Medal of Honor Day was established by Congress in 1990 to “foster public appreciation and recognition of Medal of Honor Recipients” and has been celebrated since 1991. The day, March 25, was selected because March 25, 1863, was the date when the first Medal of Honor was presented. It wa...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come under unusual criticism from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP Naomi Schalit, The Conversation Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on March 14, 2024, “The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel.” It was an extraordinary public criticism of a longtime ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by an American government official. Against the background of imminent famine in Gaza, Schumer, the top Democrat in Congress and the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the U.S., said Ne...
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Michael C. Davis, O.P. Jindal Global University Lawmakers in Hong Kong passed new security legislation on March 19, 2024, handing authorities in the semi-autonomous city-state further power to clamp down on dissent. The law, under Article 23, has been decades in the making but was resisted for a long time by protesters who feared the legislation’s effect on civil liberties in Hong Kong, a special administrative region in China that has become increasingly under the thumb of Beijing. To explain what the adoption of Article 23, which is set to be signed into law on March 23, 2024, means for the ...
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A Texas National Guard soldier watches over a group of migrants who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Dec. 18, 2023.John Moore/Getty Images Mark P Jones, Rice University The U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion on March 19, 2024, that Texas can – at least for now – have state authorities deport undocumented migrants, which has traditionally been the federal government’s responsibility. Three liberal judges dissented from the opinion that temporarily backed Texas’ controversial new law, known as Senate Bill 4. “That law upends the federal-state balance of power that ha...
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“Now we’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across [the] line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys — if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” This is the rhetoric Donald Trump used over the weekend at one of his hate rallies. Donald Trump did not say it’s going to be a “bloodbath” for the auto industry. He said, “It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.” He even said it’s going to be the “least of it” before sta...
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Some U.S. lawmakers have grown concerned about TikTok.Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images. Shaomin Li, Old Dominion University Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans? These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the U.S. over whether to ban TikTok if its owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, refuses to sell the platform. But in my opinion – forged through 40 years as a scholar of China, its political economy and bus...
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