The US Office of Special Counsel called for firing Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act.

Michigan dropped the charges against state officials connected with lead in Flint's water, in order to start the investigation again.

Two years after the Grenfell tower fire, the UK has not even started to upgrade the fire safety standards of other buildings with the same problem.

Voting Machine Makers Claim The Names Of The Entities That Own Them Are Trade Secrets.

Calling something a "trade secret" is just a way of saying "I don't want to tell you." Why do governments so often allow companies to conceal important information simply because they want to? Many countries have adopted laws and policies which give undue respect to the wishes of companies.

We should change that. Let's not allow companies that make or sell election systems to keep anything about them secret, except the password that they give to the purchaser. The software in them should be free.

However, making the software free/libre does not make a computer trustworthy for recording votes. We have to do that on paper!

France has adopted a new tax on large foreign companies doing business there.

Bravo! Taxing the rich more enables the country to do more.

France disregarded threats from the US government to do this.