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Wisconsin judge allows for lawsuit against fake Trump electors to proceed 05/15/2023 02:40pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Monday refused to break up a lawsuit filed against 10 fake electors for former President Donald Trump and two of his attorneys, saying the case could proceed in the county where it was filed. The lawsuit seeks $2.4 million from the fake electors and their With Turkey's presidential election going to a runoff, what comes next? 05/15/2023 10:50am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Close, but not close enough. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan received the most votes in a weekend presidential election but could not claim victory because he failed to get the majority support required for an outright win. Preliminary results showed the longtime lead Executive fired from TikTok's Chinese owner says Beijing had access to app data in termination suit 05/12/2023 07:57pm • A former executive fired from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance made a raft of accusations against the tech giant Friday, including that it stole content from competitors like Instagram and Snapchat, and served as a “propaganda tool” for the Chinese government by suppressing or promoting conte Montenegro court agrees to release founder of cryptocurrency firm Terraform Labs on bail 05/12/2023 08:31am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A court in Montenegro agreed to release Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon from jail Friday along with another South Korean citizen who also is charged with using forged identification documents in the Balkan country. The Basic Court Podgorica accepted 400,000 euros ( $435 Ex-Kansas legislator convicted of COVID relief fraud sentenced to more than 2 years in US prison 05/11/2023 06:30pm • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief was sentenced Thursday to two years and three months in prison, according to online court records. An attorney for former Republican state Rep. Michael Capps argue Terraform Labs founder pleads not guilty in Montenegro forged documents case 05/11/2023 09:03am • PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — A trial opened in Montenegro on Thursday against Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon and another citizen of South Korea who are charged in the Balkan country with using forged identification documents, state-owned media reported. The two have pleaded not guilty and offered Turkey's closely watched elections may stretch Erdogan's rule or set country on new course 05/11/2023 01:19am • ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In the year in which the Turkish republic marks its centenary, the country is being closely watched to see if a united opposition can succeed in unseating an increasingly authoritarian leader in the NATO-member country. Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary elections, ta How to write a resignation letter 05/10/2023 08:00pm • If you're about to quit a job, your first instinct may be to run out of your employer's doors and never be seen again. But don't do that. Instead, you may want to write a resignation letter. It isn't always necessary, of course, but a well-crafted resignation letter can be a professional and clas ChatGPT user in China detained for creating and spreading fake news, police say 05/10/2023 07:14pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chinese police said they recently detained a ChatGPT user for allegedly using the AI-powered chatbot to create a fake news story about a nonexistent train crash. It's one of the first enforcement actions under a recently enacted Chinese law regulating AI-generated “deepfakes Minnesota advances deepfakes bill to criminalize people sharing altered sexual, political content 05/10/2023 06:10pm • ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — In a nearly unanimous vote, Minnesota Senate lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday that would criminalize people who non-consensually share deepfake sexual images of others, and people who share deepfakes to hurt a political candidate or influence an election. Deepfakes are vide 3 companies to pay $615,000 in NY attorney general investigation over faked net neutrality comments 05/10/2023 02:49pm • ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Three companies accused of falsifying millions of public comments to support the contentious 2017 federal repeal of net neutrality rules have agreed to pay $615,000 in penalties to New York and other states, New York's attorney general said Wednesday. The penalties come after a Md. school system races to battle fentanyl epidemic facing teens 05/10/2023 04:55am • This article is part of the WTOP series, "Facing Down Fentanyl: Teens Confront Drug Danger." The fentanyl epidemic has created new challenges for school systems across the country. Students are overdosing — sometimes on school grounds — in higher numbers, and school systems are racing to r Discord forces members to change usernames, discord erupts 05/09/2023 05:22pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The social app Discord, a favorite of gamers, inadvertently stirred internal strife after announcing last week that it will force its millions of members to pick new usernames. Now the question is whether the change will escalate into all-out warfare that could include players Ukraine flags block Russian ambassador's path on Victory Day 05/09/2023 03:57pm • WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Protesters and a large installation representing Russian atrocities in Ukraine blocked the path of Russia's ambassador to Poland as he sought Tuesday to place a wreath at a Warsaw memorial to Soviet soldiers on Russia's Victory Day holiday. The Russian Foreign Ministry strong Wisconsin judge revives complaint over 2020 fake electors 05/09/2023 12:50pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission must disregard its earlier ruling unanimously rejecting a complaint against fake presidential electors who attempted to cast the state's ballots for former President Donald Trump when it rehears the case, a judge ruled Tuesday. A Re