Day: June 11, 2024
FBI Suspends Employee’s Security Clearance After Investigating Trump Support and Covid-19 Views
The FBI allegedly revoked the security clearance of an employee due to his political views and stance on the Covid-19 vaccine. …
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FCC Proposes New Action to Strengthen Internet Routing Security
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted to advance a proposal to improve the security of America’s communications networks, pointing to past incidents of a Chinese state-run carrier hijacking U.S. internet traffic. The proposed initiative mandates that broadband providers file confidential reports, detailing their plans and steps to address vulnerabilities in the Border Gateway Protocol […]
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Revealed: FBI interrogated agents to see if they were Trump supporters, anti-maskers, vaccine skeptics…
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Connecticut Weighs Ranked Choice Voting
Connecticut’s Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont wants the state to look into scrapping the state’s winner-take-all electoral system for ranked choice voting.
Lamont has created a new bipartisan commission to study a legislative proposal that would allow local governments and political parties in Connecticut the option to use ranked choice voting in caucuses, conventions, primaries and municipal elections.
More than 150K Inactive Ohio Voters Could Lose Voting Status
Ohio could remove more than 150,000 people from its voter list as it continues to remove inactive voters.
Secretary of State Frank LaRose recently released a list of 158,857 inactive voter registrations as part of what he calls an election integrity initiative being implemented before the November general election.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Florida Gender-Affirming Care Ban as ‘Unconstitutional’
A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, which also imposed restrictions for some adults, touting the law as "unconstitutional" because it discriminated against transgender people.
The controversial law was passed in the state and signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2023. It barred medical professionals from administering gender-affirming care to minors, including treatments like puberty blockers and hormones. Florida medical boards embraced rules barring doctors from performing gender surgeries on minors or prescribing hormone treatments for them in 2022.