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Republican lawmaker hits Kamala Harris with articles of impeachment
Republican lawmaker hits Kamala Harris with articles of impeachment
Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles has filed articles of impeachment of Vice President Kamala Harris over her handling of the southern border and for her insistence that Joe Biden was fit for the top of the Democratic ticket.
Harris has faced GOP attacks from all sides since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.
Republicans have accused her of ‘covering up’ the president’s cognitive decline and demanded she invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden.
The first article of impeachment, ‘willful refusal to uphold the immigration laws,’ stems from her alleged ‘inaction’ with border security and immigration law as ‘border czar.’ The second article of impeachment, ‘breach of public trust,’ alleges that Harris ‘knowingly misled’ the public and Congress about ‘the physical and cognitive well-being’ of Biden.
Since Biden stepped down from the presidential race, Republicans have again begun to paint Harris as Biden’s ‘border czar’ – under an administration that saw record border crossings.
Biden appointed Harris early in his administration to deal with the ‘root causes’ of immigration.
And calls for the 25th Amendment have swelled as Biden hit out in Delaware for 6 days with a Covid-19 diagnosis and the biggest decision of his lifetime weighing over his head. The president ultimately acquiesced to public pressure and stepped down from the running for 2024 on Sunday, nearly a month after his disastrous debate performance.
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Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, first filed a resolution just after the debate to call on Harris ‘to convene the Cabinet and declare President Joe Biden as unable to carry out his duties as Commander-in-Chief.’
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters on Monday he was still considering whether to put the resolution on the House floor.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., has called for Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment and on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment for the vice president failing to uphold border laws.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote a letter to every one of Biden’s Cabinet members urging them to invoke the 25th Amendment.
‘If President Biden is willing to admit he is unable to continue to stand as the Democratic Party nominee for President after the primary process due to his health, he is unable to continue to serve as President until January 20, 2025,’ Schmitt said in the letters.
Democrats have scoffed at the notion.
‘That’s a Jim Crow-era tactic,’ Rep. Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., told DailyMail.com.
‘Let the American people speak. Let’s go and vote. And I think it should also talk about whether or not a person that’s been convicted as a felon has the right to go into public housing, which is the White House.’
‘Totally stupid,’ Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu told DailyMail.com of the tactic. ‘He has done a phenomenal job as president, he’s going to continue doing a phenomenal job as president. The fact that he chose not to run for reelection has nothing to do with him being president right now.’
The fact that their calls will likely fall on deaf ears within the Cabinet did not deter Republicans.
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‘We cannot have a Commander in Chief in charge of the nuclear codes who is experiencing the level of cognitive decline that we see in President Biden,’ said Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., in calling for the 25th Amendment.
‘The 25th amendment looks pretty good right about now,’ Rep. Nancy Mace, R-N.C., said on X in response to a clip of Biden caught on camera for the first time in six days.
‘She lied then, and she will lie again. Joe Biden is unfit to run for President and, therefore, unfit to serve as President, yet Vice President Harris lied to the American people and covered it up. We must immediately invoke the 25th Amendment,’ wrote Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., on X.
Congress cannot invoke the 25th Amendment – the Cabinet and vice president must agree to do that. The resolution would simply turn up pressure on them to so.
Still, the prospect of such a drastic step seems to have little opposition from even moderate Republicans.
‘It’s a sad situation and I feel bad for the president,’ Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., told DailyMail.com. ‘I just hope he’s able to govern.
‘I think it’s perfectly reasonable for somebody to ask if the president’s not fit to run as fit to govern,’ said Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D.
‘I do think the president is much diminished from even just a couple of years ago. So I think clearly the reason we have a 25th amendment is so that those within the administration closest to the president can assess whether or not he is up to the job and I would certainly hope that assessment is ongoing.’
Republican lawmaker hits Kamala Harris with articles of impeachment
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$100m coin collection buried for decades to be auctioned
$100m coin collection buried for decades to be auctioned
A coin collection, much of which remained buried underground for over 50 years, is expected to surpass $100 million at auction, according to experts.
Named the Traveller Collection, this extraordinary assemblage is believed to be the most valuable coin collection ever brought to auction.
The coins will be sold gradually over the next three years, with the first auction set for May 20.
Beyond its immense value, the collection’s origins make for a fascinating tale.
Spanning over 100 territories and encompassing coins from ancient times to the modern era, the collection is being auctioned by Numismatica Ars Classica.
What sets it apart is that most of the coins remained hidden underground for half a century before resurfacing.
According to a press release shared with CNN, the anonymous collector behind the collection began acquiring gold coins after the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Over time, he developed “a taste for coins with great historical interest, beauty and rarity” and eventually amassed approximately 15,000 coins.
During the 1930s, he and his wife traveled extensively across the Americas and Europe, acquiring rare and historically significant coins while meticulously documenting their purchases.
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Despite settling in Europe at a time when Hitler’s Nazi party loomed over the continent, the collector sensed the impending danger. In response, he carefully packed the coins into cigar boxes, which were then placed inside aluminum containers and buried underground, where they remained undisturbed for five decades.
Among the collection is a 50 Toman coin, part of an “exceedingly rare” set minted in Tehran and Isfahan during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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AI will replace doctors, teachers, others in 10 years – Bill Gates
AI will replace doctors, teachers, others in 10 years – Bill Gates
Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, has claimed that improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) over the next decade may render humans superfluous for the majority of work.
In a recent interview with comedian Jimmy Fallon on NBC’s The Tonight Show in February, the billionaire philanthropist discussed how AI may take over many facets of life and business.
Gates remarked that expertise is currently “rare”, emphasising the continuous reliance on human specialists in industries such as medicine and education.
For example, we continue to rely on highly trained individuals, such as “a great doctor” or “a great teacher”, whose knowledge cannot be simply replaced by AI.
However, “with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring,” Gates said.
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In other words, Gates believes that the world is entering a new era of “free intelligence”, as he described in a recent interview with Harvard University professor and happiness specialist Arthur Brooks.
According to Gates, this transition will result in rapid breakthroughs in AI-powered technology, making them more accessible and affecting almost every part of our lives.
These breakthroughs will vary from more effective treatments and diagnoses to widely available AI instructors and virtual assistants.
“It’s very profound and even a little bit scary — because it’s happening very quickly, and there is no upper bound,” Gates told Brooks.
The discussion of how humans will fit into an AI-powered future continues.
Some analysts suggest that artificial intelligence will improve human productivity rather than completely replacing labour, hence driving economic growth and creating new jobs.
However, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman cautions that technological improvements in the coming years will disrupt the nature of most occupations across nearly all industries, potentially exerting a “hugely destabilising” influence on the workforce.
AI will replace doctors, teachers, others in 10 years – Bill Gates
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Poland suspends migrants’ right to apply for asylum
Poland suspends migrants’ right to apply for asylum
Poland has temporarily suspended the right of migrants arriving in Poland via its border with Belarus to apply for asylum.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it would be happening after the controversial bill, which will allow Polish authorities to suspend this right for up to 60 days at a time, was signed into law by President Andrzej Duda.
Tusk had said it would be adopted “without a moment’s delay” while Duda said the changes were needed to strengthen security on the country’s borders.
But the law has been criticized by rights groups including Human Rights Watch, which said the EU should take legal action against Poland if it was implemented.
The group urged the country’s parliament last month to reject the bill, saying it “flies in the face of Poland’s international and EU obligations” and could “effectively completely seal off the Poland-Belarus border, where Polish authorities already engage in unlawful and abusive pushbacks”.
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The government said previously the suspension would only be applied temporarily to people who pose a threat to state security, for example large groups of aggressive migrants trying to storm the border.
Exemptions will be made for unaccompanied minors, pregnant women, the elderly or unwell, anyone exposed to “real risk of serious harm” by being returned and citizens of countries accused of conducting the instrumentalization of migration – like Belarus
Tusk has dismissed criticism from human rights groups.
“Nobody is talking about violating human rights, the right to asylum, we are talking about not granting applications to people who illegally cross the border in groups organised by Lukashenko,” he said in October.
Since 2021, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Finland have seen a huge increase in the number of people crossing into their countries illegally from Belarus and Russia.
Polish authorities have sent thousands of troops and border guards to police its border with Belarus and built a 5.5-metre-high steel fence along 186 km of the frontier where at times several thousand migrants have been left stranded.
Rights groups estimate more than one hundred people have died on the borders between Belarus and Poland, Lithuania and Latvia since 2021.
EU eastern flank countries and the European Commission have accused the Belarusian and Russian authorities of weaponising migration to create a new route into the EU to destabilize the bloc.
Poland suspends migrants’ right to apply for asylum
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