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Microsoft Ex-Employee Raises Corruption Charges In Middle East, Africa

Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) fired some employees and terminated partnerships concerning bribery allegations in its sales efforts in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reports. A former Microsoft manager Yasser Elabd, who worked throughout the Middle East and Africa from 1998 to 2018, made the allegations public after being fired. Elabd alleged that Microsoft…

Benzinga

When They Attack 'Dark Money,' They're Really Attacking Free Speech

Republicans take a page from the Democrats’ book by crying “dark money” during Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing.

Reason

"Cancel Culture … Is Inconsistent with the Philosophy of Open, Political Debate"

“[I]t undermines and stifles First Amendment privileges,” says a federal court, defining “cancel culture” as “the phenomenon of aggressively targeting individuals or groups, whose views aggressors deem unacceptable, in an effort to destroy them personally and/or professionally.”

Reason

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Dennis Anderson: At 100, Federal looks ahead while churning out ammunition

Federal ammunition of Anoka is 100 years old this year, a hallmark achievement.

Tribune News Service

Today's disappointing federal court decision undoes 20 years of climate litigation progress in Australia

The federal court today unanimously decided Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley does not have a duty of care to protect young people from the harms of climate change.

The Conversation

The Federal Court Doesn’t Give A Shit About Young Aussies In The Climate Apocalypse After All

It overturned a world-first duty of care won by a group of Aussie teens last year.

Pedestrian.tv

Children's climate change case overturned on appeal as Federal Court dismisses government's 'duty of care'

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley successfully argues she does not have a duty of care to protect young people from climate change when assessing fossil fuel projects.

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Victoria agitates for 'fair share' of GST

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is pleading with the federal government to reconsider how GST is carved up in COVID-19 times and beyond.

AAP

The New Violence Against Women Act Aims To Protect Women From State Violence

The bill addresses treatment of women in federal prisons and sexual assault of people in police custody.

Reason

NSW Liberals set to take federal minister to court in battle over who chooses election candidates

After months of frustration, an internal stoush as broken out into the open, with the Liberal Party of NSW taking a senior federal minister to court over what it says is an attempt to intervene in grassroots pre-selection processes.

ABC News

Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson convicted in tax fraud trial, will be forced to resign

CHICAGO — Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was convicted by a federal jury Monday of filing false tax returns and lying to federal regulators about a line of credit he had with a failed Bridgeport bank.

Chicago Tribune

U.S. presses Canada on border blockage, braces for potential Super Bowl disruptions

The Biden administration on Thursday urged Canada to use federal powers to ease the disruption at the U.S.-Canada border caused by a protest against anti-coronavirus mandates that has blocked a vital U.S.-Canada trade route, a White House official said.

Reuters

Ransomware attack cost Tasmania's pokies giant Federal Group millions of dollars

Cyber hackers targeted Federal Group last year but the Tasmanian pokies and casino giant refused to pay. The company says it still cost them millions of dollars to fix the problem.

ABC News

Financial Regulator Calls Lack Of Banking Access In Cannabis A Serious Market Failure

During an interview with PBC Conference that was released on Wednesday, Federal financial regulator Rodney Hood, a board member of the federal National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said marijuana legalization is not a question of “if” but “when,”

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Federal Reserve leaves interest rates on hold, but March rise looks likely – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

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Biden blocked from ordering government workers to get shots in latest Covid setback

Federal judge’s ruling is the latest in a series of setbacks dealt to Biden by Trump-appointed judges

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