Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, pressed Dr. Anthony Fauci to reveal his finances in a congressional hearing Tuesday, saying that his staff couldn’t find any public financial disclosure from the nation’s most famous pandemic official. But we did. As part of my job as an investigative reporter at the Center for Public Integrity, in 2020 I requested Fauci’s most recent disclosure at the time. It covers calendar year 2019, and you can see it here. As a senior government official, Fauci must disclose his income, stock holdings, gifts and other items annually, thanks to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.…
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Responsibility for the Earth is part of many U.S. Christians’ beliefs, but so is skepticism about climate change View of Earth from the International Space Station. (NASA) Pew Research Center conducted this survey to explore the relationship between Americans’ religious beliefs and their views about the environment. For this report, we surveyed 10,156 U.S. adults from April 11-17, 2022. All respondents to the survey are part of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The…
In less than a decade, the share of Americans who go “cashless” in a typical week has increased by double digits. Today, roughly four-in-ten Americans (41%) say none of their purchases in a typical week are paid for using cash, up from 29% in 2018 and 24% in 2015, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Conversely, the portion of Americans who say that all or almost all of their purchases are paid for using cash in a typical week has steadily decreased, from 24% in 2015 to 18% in 2018 to 14% today. Still, roughly six-in-ten Americans (59%)…
With rights advocates rallying outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, the right-wing majority of the court appeared poised to rule in favor of a web designer who aims to discriminate against LGBTQ+ couples when she creates wedding websites, as the justices heard arguments in the case 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.The court’s six right-wing justices asked a number of pointed questions of Colorado Solicitor General Eric Olson and the state’s principal deputy solicitor general, Brian Fletcher, as they defended Colorado’s public accommodation law.”This lawsuit was ginned up by a law firm—Alliance Defending Freedom—that has been labeled by the Southern…
We’ve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It’s usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support – often clunky to navigate – and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But imagine a chatbot, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), that can not only expertly answer your questions, but also write stories, give life advice, even compose poems and code computer programs. It seems ChatGPT, a chatbot released last week by OpenAI, is delivering on these outcomes. It has generated much excitement, and some have gone as far as to suggest it could signal a future…
An investigation by Greenpeace, Business Insider and ZDF frontal proves that Amazon continues to throw away and destroy returns and new goods. Secretly recorded images and conversations with employees reveal the ecological madness of a throwaway culture at Amazon. The company does not see itself as responsible, but rather the so-called third-party sellers. One thing is certain, however: Amazon earns money from the destruction through a fee-based disposal service. A research team from ZDF frontal and Business Insider spent months meeting Amazon employees and talking to them about the company’s throwaway practices. In addition, the employees secretly took photos in…
Update: Jan. 13, 5:42 p.m.: A spokesman for Sen. Marshall said he plans to introduce the “Financial Accountability for Uniquely Compensated Individuals (FAUCI) ACT, which requires the public access of financial disclosures on the official Office of Government Ethics (OGE) website for administration officials like Dr. Fauci. The FAUCI Act would also provide a list of all confidential filers within the government whose financial disclosures are not public.” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, seems to think Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease official, is keeping his personal finances secret. “Yes or no, would you be willing to submit to…
(RichLegg via Getty Images) Political conversations over Thanksgiving dinner may be fraught for many American families, especially after a tense midterm election season. But people in both major parties at least agree on the value of getting together. Pew Research Center conducted this survey to explore various sources of meaning and fulfillment in Americans’ lives. For this study, we surveyed 10,156 U.S. adults from April 11 to 17, 2022. All respondents to the survey are part of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly…
Voters cast ballots on the first day of in-person early voting at Desert Vista Community Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 22, 2022. (David Becker/Getty Images) Voters in the United States have already begun to cast their ballots for the House of Representatives, Senate and scores of state and local offices this year. As Election Day approaches, here’s a look at voters’ issue priorities, based primarily on a Pew Research Center survey conducted Oct. 10-16, 2022. This Pew Research Center analysis looks at registered voters’ priorities ahead of the 2022 U.S. congressional elections. It is based primarily on a survey…
In Travis Linnemann’s book The Horror Of Police, he quotes David Grossman, founder of the “bulletproof warrior” seminar series, notorious for teaching police that killing is “just not that big of a deal.” At the end of a long day, Grossman says, police should “look out on your city and let your cape blow in the wind”. This suggests police should see themselves as superheroes. In reality, they seem drawn to one superhero in particular: the classic Marvel comics character, the Punisher.“ He doesn’t wear a cape, admittedly. He’s more famous for the stylised skull logo plastered across his chest.…