Ethics

A hunting guide in Utah has been charged with illegally baiting a bear which was shot by Donald Trump Jr during a hunt in the state, a report says.Wade Lemon faces five years behind bars if convicted over the May 2018 killing, and prosecutors say there is no evidence that the former president’s eldest son would have known about the alleged baiting.Mr Trump is not named in court papers but his identity as the shooter was confirmed by the Utah Department of Natural Resources, according to The Utah Investigative Journalism Project and The Salt Lake City Tribune.Davis County Attorney Troy...

All human beings, with no exceptions, possess infinite numbers of biases. There tends to be a misplaced focus on people's actual and perceived biases, rather than on their character and integrity to be impartial. It is unrealistic, unreasonable, and harmful to expect or imply that people can eliminate their biases.

The leaders of the Jan. 6 committee suggested Thursday there may be evidence to support New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s allegation that GOP lawmakers gave “reconnaissance” tours of the Capitol a day before the insurrection. The Republican congressman who filed ethics charges against Sherrill for making her...

Former Heisman Trophy winner and candidate for US Senate Herschel Walker (R-GA) speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. This event is a part of Trump's Save America Tour around the United States. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

A new Wall Street Journal report points to insider trading problems in the crypto industry. Following the Wall Street Journal expose, Binance CEO CZ states that the exchange has a zero-tolerance policy for insider trading and strives to maintain the highest possible standards. According to an analysis of public data,...

This article originally appeared on The Texas Tribune. A group of lawyers want the State Bar of Texas to investigate Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz for his "leading" role in attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Lawyers with the 65 Project, an organization aiming to hold attorneys accountable...

The Senator's use of @marcorubio, tweeting official Senate activities, spawns a complaint. The Florida Democratic Party has filed an ethics complaint against Republican Sen. Marco Rubio for allegedly using official U.S. Senate resources on his campaign’s Twitter account — citing the same rule that prompted a complaint against his possible Democratic challenger last year.

Despite comprising over 40 percent of the U.S. population, people of color are only 18 percent of all state high court judges.

State Senator Roby Smith is on track to outspend State Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald, if the latest reports filed with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board are any guide. A news release from the Republican’s campaign boasted that its donations, totaling $213,391.15 so far this election cycle, “have set an...

In a time span of three days, Real Madrid went from being super confident about signing Kylian Mbappe to being absolutely disgruntled since the player decided to go back on his word to Madrid and sign an extension with PSG, forcing Real to look elsewhere for options. In a contract...

It can have various meanings, though the most common understanding seems to be that sometimes we fail to notice something that is right there before our very eyes. You might have experienced this phenomenon. For example, maybe you recently mildly panicked that you couldn’t find your smartphone, and then suddenly...

WASHINGTON - Federal court officials in D.C. will investigate the public disclosure of a confidential employee survey detailing accusations that some judges subjected staff to gender discrimination, bullying and racial insensitivity. D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan informed colleagues of the planned investigation after The Washington Post on Monday published...

Cleveland City Councilman Brian Kazy introduced a resolution calling on FirstEnergy to give up its naming rights to the Cleveland Browns' stadium.

May 20th is National Be A Millionaire Day. It's a perfect day to sit back and wonder what your life would be like if you were a millionaire. We've all sat back and wondered what it would be like to live life on your own terms and still earn a comfortable living. Today is the day to sit back and figure out what we would do if we could achieve that.

The U.S. House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Thursday asked Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia to appear before the committee to answer questions about a tour of the Capitol that Loudermilk gave the day before the assault. But Loudermilk and the top Republican on the House Administration […] The post Jan. 6 investigators want Georgia’s Loudermilk to explain pre-attack U.S. Capitol tour appeared first on Kansas Reflector.

This is not a review of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. If you clicked on this thinking that it would, in fact, be a review of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but that is not what this is. Unfortunately for me, who agreed to...

With the election almost upon us, thoughts are more than ever turned to political survival. While getting pre-selected and winning elections are the initial, difficult challenges of a political career, a major ongoing one is surviving in the treacherous galaxy of politics. As part of our study of political leadership, during 2021 we interviewed 13 politicians from across the Australian political spectrum. They included federal and state ministers, senators, federal and state members of parliament, and mayors of local government (for ethics reasons, participants are not named). As part of this, we looked at the complex reasons a leader’s political career...