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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council condemns Yandex voice assistants for avoiding politics  Новая газета. Европа Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“It’s politics and we are pawns”: How Russia is pushing migrants …  YLE News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]IDFA Guest of Honor Wang Bing Discusses Chinese Censorship, Upcoming Trilogy and Politics: ‘I Don’t Want My Films to Become a Political Tool’  Variety Source link

Though the holidays are just days away, Congress isn’t slowing down just yet as lawmakers must agree on government spending, a new House leader, and whether to levy criminal charges against a former president. Here are three stories to watch in business and politics this week: Trump This is former-President Trump’s most consequential week since leaving the White House. The Select Committee on Jan. 6 officially recommended on Monday that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Trump… Source link

Social Security has become a predictable talking point for Democrats heading into the midterms, but some Republicans have also been surprisingly eager to engage on the hot-button topic. While many GOP leaders have tried to stay mum on the so-called “third rail of American politics,” other Republican figures have waded in. The latest example came this week from Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA), who’s running to be the top Republican on the House Budget Committee next year. In an interview with… Source link

This week in politics, Yahoo Finance will be watching whether the U.S. revives a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and whether the Biden administration extends a payment pause for student loans. We’ll also be watching reactions to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole, and to revised GDP numbers for the second quarter. Here’s more on three big stories in politics this week: 1. Iran deal talks: Axios is reporting that U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan will soon meet with his… Source link

This week in politics, Yahoo Finance will be watching for reactions to the one-year anniversary of the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan and its potential to expose President Joe Biden to criticism. We’ll also be monitoring U.S.-China relations as a bipartisan group of lawmakers visits Taiwan amid continued economic tensions with Beijing. And finally, all eyes are on the state of Wyoming this week as U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney fends off a primary challenge from Trump-backed Harriet… Source link

Lawmakers are racing toward the August recess, as President Biden prepares to sign a bill Tuesday that invests nearly $52 billion into the semiconductor chip manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, the House is expected to vote this week on a roughly $430 billion spending package aimed to improve health care, address climate change, and make corporations pay their fair share of taxes. The Senate approved the measure over the weekend. We’re also slated to see new inflation data on Wednesday, as U.S…. Source link

It has often been a rule of running a business that the less said about politics the better. But Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says that business leaders actually have a duty to weigh in on issues like voting rights that impact the lives of employees and customers. “It is disingenuous to think that you can separate economics from politics or that a CEO can separate her responsibility as a political leader from her responsibility as an economic leader,” she told Yahoo… Source link

Michele Tafoya wrapped up her career as an NFL sideline reporter with Sunday’s Super Bowl, saying goodbye after 327 games. We’ve known for a month that Tafoya was leaving, but we didn’t know what she’d be doing next. The only hint she’d given is that she was leaving sports altogether for a totally different gig. On Monday we found out what that gig would be. In an interview with The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch, Tafoya announced that she’s entering politics, and will be co-charing the campaign… Source link