During demonstrations biden and trump support just trade calls to count every ballot and protect the vote. Plus kosovos president steps down to face charges for war crimes over his alleged role in the countrys conflict. Its a 100 hours g. M. T. 8 pm on the u. S. East coast 2 days after election day Donald Trumps lead has been falling into key states as mail ballots are counted raising joe bidens hopes of clinching the presidency. Lets take a look at georgia 1st where joe biden is now fewer than 4000. 00 votes behind trump its been a solid republican state for almost 3 decades and its emerged as a surprising battleground this time around the bulk of the remaining mail ballots are from democratic leaning areas were also still waiting on pennsylvania the state where joe biden was born trumps lead has been consistently shrinking theyre just over 60000 votes separate the 2 candidates and the remaining male ballots are mostly from the democratic leaning cities of philadelphia and pittsburgh
Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrote several books on president ial elections beginning in
With increased urgency following the adoption and state laws in california and other states. At a recent hearing a group of chairs and commissioners representing different parties and different points of view had many specifics to be worked out. Given the data needs associated with the coronavirus aftermath. The panel will discuss the tradeoff between privacy and the context of the pandemic and get back privacy considerations and what the new privacy wall should look like and include and what it should not include. We are a distinguished panel to discuss these issues. Let me introduce them now. We have professor of law at the university of arizona. Christina montgomery is Vice President and chief officer at ibm, the former acting chair and commissioner now a partner of the law firm, andrew smith is the head of the bureau of Consumer Protection of the ftc and distinguished professor of management. Let me start out with a question for the panel and then also take you in the same order. H
Panelists. Thank you. Senior fellow and president emeritus. Welcome to the Privacy Panel where we can discuss the issue of how the pandemic has changed our views on privacy and what that implies in the legislation. Congress is debating the privacy legislation for some years but with increased urgency following the adoption and state laws in california and other states. At a recent hearing a group of chairs and commissioners representing different parties and different points of view had many specifics to be worked out. Given the data needs associated with the coronavirus aftermath. The panel will discuss the tradeoff between privacy and the context of the pandemic and get back privacy considerations and what the new privacy wall should look like and include and what it should not include. We are a distinguished panel to discuss these issues. Let me introduce them now. We have professor of law at the university of arizona. Christina montgomery is Vice President and chief officer at ibm,
So many problems as theyre well within the eye wall of a full and growing need the strongest typhoon to hit the country and perhaps the world this year and earlier today there was an advisory that word top government officials spoke where they talked about preemptive measures that about 19000000 people are actually going to be affected by this typhoon and that here in manila the impact can only be felt late into sunday police in hong kong arrested 7 prodemocracy politicians on charges related to a Legislative Council meeting more than 5 months ago the group is accused of contempt and obstructing a session to see crews in turkey are working to save people trapped under the rubble and is near a powerful earthquake on friday hit the western turkish province and the greek island of some all struggling a small tsunami at least 51 people have been killed and hundreds more injured. Turkish president recip diverged arrived in his mirror on saturday night visited one side of collapsed buildings