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Apr 16

Israel Weighs Response to Iran Attack: Middle East Live Updates: A flurry of talks sought to avert a wider war after Iran’s weekend attack ...

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Quick Glance: New Measures Against Iran and Escalation in West Bank

The United States intends to take further actions against Iran in the coming days to address the attacks on Israel over the weekend, as announced by US officials on Tuesday.

To combat the escalation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian officials reported the deaths of two Palestinians shot by Israeli settlers on Monday.

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Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract: The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees ...

nytimes.com/2024/04/18/technology/google-firing-israeli-cloud-contract.html

Quick Glance: Google terminates 28 employees after office occupation due to anti-Israel protests

Google terminated 28 employees on Thursday who had occupied its offices to protest against contracts with the Israeli government, as confirmed by a Google spokesperson.

The protesters were arrested and after refusing to leave the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in Sunnyvale or the workspace in New York City for nearly 10 hours, they were transferred to administrative positions to urge Google to terminate the Project Nimbus contract and cease business with the Israeli government.

No Tech For Apartheid, a project by Jewish Voice for Peace and Linda Sarsour’s MPower Change, described the terminations as an "indiscriminate act of mass retaliation."

The office occupations at Google were accompanied by demonstrations on-site and in Seattle, aiming to compel Google to withdraw from the project to establish cloud-based data centers and transition a significant portion of the Israeli government's IT infrastructure to cloud-based servers.

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Apr 17

Senate kills both impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

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Quick Glance: Senate's Decision on Impeachment Charges Against Mayorkas

The Senate rejected the impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, halting the House Republicans' effort to impeach the Cabinet secretary over his management of the US-Mexico border.

With Democrats contending that the articles were unconstitutional, senators voted to dismiss both impeachment charges and conclude the trial.

Senate Republicans had called for a full impeachment trial after the House narrowly voted in February to impeach Mayorkas for his border actions.

Republicans argued that President Joe Biden was ineffective at the border, while Democrats suggested accepting a bipartisan Senate compromise instead of impeaching Mayorkas to reduce illegal immigrants.

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Apr 16

Supreme Court grapples with limits on obstruction charge in Jan. 6 cases: Supreme Court justices grappled with limits on an obstruction charge filed in Jan ...

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Quick Glance: Justices Question Obstruction Charge Against Jan. 6 Rioter

The Supreme Court is considering whether Jan. 6 rioters can be charged with obstructing an official proceeding, potentially impacting Trump's election interference case.

During Tuesday's hearing, justices expressed concerns about the Justice Department's use of the obstruction statute to prosecute those involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

A potential consequence of a ruling in favor of Fischer could affect Trump, although this outcome is not definitive. Prosecutors in Trump's case have emphasized that even if Fischer succeeds, Trump's actions would still be governed by a more restrictive interpretation of the law.

The provision was enacted in 2002 as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed after the Enron accounting scandal. Both Fischer and Trump argue that the obstruction law does not apply to their alleged conduct, meaning the charges should be dropped.

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Apr 17

Supreme Court Considers Tossing Out Jan. 6 Convictions for Violating Federal Obstruction Law

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Apr 17

Kampala traders strike enters day two Kampala traders are continuing their sit-down strike, which began yesterday, to protest @URAuganda's Electronic Fiscal ... Show more #MonitorUpdates

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Google fires 28 employees after protest against cloud contract with Israel : Google has fired 28 employees who were involved in protests over the tech company’s ...

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Quick Glance: Google Employees Rally Against Cloud Agreement with Israel's Government

Google staff members are protesting a cloud deal with the Israeli government amid the Hamas conflict.

Activists are staging sit-ins at Google offices in New York and California as a form of protest.

These actions represent an intensification in the resistance against tech companies' association with the Israeli government.

Employees are urging the immediate termination of the project and condemning the IDF's utilization of Google services.

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Argentine students, teachers protest Milei's budget cuts drive: Argentina's public universities and students held protests against sharp budget cuts by the ...

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Oko Fed poly students protest exam fee, others: Students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, on Tuesday, staged a protest against the constant ...