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France and other budding authoritarian countries with ambitions to lord over their citizens’ movements by introducing health passes have eyes that are bigger than their stomachs. They have proven repeatedly that they’re far too incompetent to practice proper authoritarianism. Events last week are a case in point. French President Emmanuel …

The formal inquiry will “assess the technologies and methods used to monitor, assist, and enforce the driver’s engagement with the dynamic driving task during Autopilot operation,” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced on Monday. If the investigation finds the system to be flawed, it could result in the …

At the High Court in London this week, the United States dealt yet another blow to Julian Assange, the journalist and founder of WikiLeaks who continues to languish in a maximum-security prison. I have covered Assange’s extradition hearings from the start and attended his High Court hearing this week remotely. …

On Tuesday evening, 229 out of 519 members of the lower house of Congress voted in favor of Bolsonaro’s proposed constitutional amendment. The proposed reform – which Bolsonaro sought to change from an electronic system to one with a paper trail – needed a three-fifths majority of 308 to pass. …

Videos have been circulating online of Bolsonaro uttering the insult in relation to Brazil’s top judge and the head of the Supreme Electoral Court, Luis Roberto Barroso. The remark was apparently made on Friday, when the president was talking to supporters in southern Brazil. The meeting was reportedly shared live …

It’s that time of year again when our education system is under scrutiny, as bright-eyed, hopeful young people all over the country open up their GCSE and A-level results on breakfast television. I am sure you can picture the scenes of congratulatory teenagers hugging each other and crying. They have …

“I’m calling on all New York City employers, including our private hospitals, to move immediately to some form of mandate,” de Blasio said on Friday in a radio interview. He called on employers to impose “whatever the maximum you feel you can do.” De Blasio’s comments come amid rising US …

Guatemala’s power is its people who “have been unfortunately used by the fiat system for cheap labor, primarily in the United States,” Carlino says. He explains that over 20% of Guatemala’s GDP “is remittance flow sent from the United States down to Central America. And we see that as our opportunity to …

US District Court Judge Lynn Hughes dismissed the lawsuit on Saturday, ruling that Houston Methodist had the legal right to force employees to be vaccinated – even though the jabs have only received emergency-use authorization, not full approval, from the FDA. He said the claim by the 117 employees who …

Washington has described the Group of Seven summit in Cornwall, southwestern England, as an opportunity to reinforce the so-called “rules-based international system” – an assertion that China disputes.  “We always believe that countries, big or small, strong or weak, poor or rich, are equals, and that world affairs should be …