AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety

Brad Smith adds to calls for tougher rules for AI, including ‘kill switches’ and legal obligation to victims of rogue agents…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/12/ai-less-regulated-than-milk-microsoft-president-calls-for-tougher-rules

 

How do societies come back? #history #historyshorts #historyfacts

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vJz6O5Zrcts

 

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill Keeps Opposing Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted People — ProPublica

Hard Line on Payments: In her two years in the role, Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill has opposed almost all compensation claims by wrongfully convicted people. 

Freed After Four Decades: Elvis Brooks’ murder conviction was thrown out after a prosecutor admitted he hid potentially exonerating evidence. Murrill maintains he’s guilty. 

A Higher Bar: Twenty-three people have sought compensation after judges threw out their convictions. Murrill has asserted that 22 have failed to sufficiently prove their innocence…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-wrongful-conviction-compensation-liz-murrill-elvis-brooks

 

January 6 defendants pursue millions in claims through obscure federal process

“President Donald Trump still wants to pay off violent insurrectionists who attacked police officers on January 6th, despite any claims from members of his administration that say otherwise,” Schiff said in a statement. “Our taxpayer dollars should not be used to pay out criminals, and we can pass a law right now to prevent this president or any future administration from paying off their friends and political allies.”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/january-6-defendants-compensation-process

 

Trump administration seeks to halt first US reparations program for Black people

White House joined suit to stop city of Evanston, Illinois, from compensating victims of housing discrimination..

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/lawsuit-stop-reparations-evanston-illinois 

Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue’s $7.4B Bankruptcy Settlement — ProPublica

Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against the company for the harm they said its drugs caused. Fewer than half of them will get any compensation…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-settlement-leaves-opioid-victims-behind

Transportation Dept. drops Biden-era compensation plan for air travelers - The Washington Post

The Trump administration has scrapped plans that would have required airlines to pay passengers up to $775 in cash for airline-caused flight disruptions...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/09/05/airlines-flight-disruption-consumer-protection/

RFK Jr says he’ll ‘fix’ a vaccine program - by canceling compensation for people with vaccine injuries | Robert F Kennedy Jr | The Guardian

Changes to an injury compensation program could make it hard to keep vaccines on the market – or make new ones…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/31/rfk-jr-vaccine-injury-compensation 

 

Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters

Legislation has new life in wake of Los Angeles catastrophe but US fossil-fuel industry is already mobilizing against it…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/polluter-pay-bill-climate-disasters

 

MI Lawmakers Working to Fix Wrongful Imprisonment Compensation Program — ProPublica

State law provides $50,000 for each year of wrongful imprisonment, but a ProPublica investigation showed how the law's narrow requirements led to delays, partial settlements and outright denials of payments...

https://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-lawmakers-attempt-fix-wrongful-imprisonment-compensation

Moor Mother on revealing Britain’s ongoing slavery links

…it is a harrowing odyssey exploring British colonialism and the 1835 act that compensated 46,000 slave owners with £20m (£17bn today) for their lost "property" due to the legal abolition of slavery…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/12/moor-mother-on-revealing-britain-slavery-links-the-great-bailout

Why is Michigan Failing to Compensate the Wrongly Convicted? — ProPublica

Michigan has the fifth-most exonerations in the country, according to the National Registry of Exonerations: 169 wrongful convictions in state courts since 1989, with an average of nearly 11 years of incarceration. Passed with bipartisan support, WICA was intended as a lifeline for former prisoners who were wrongfully convicted and to account, in part, for the harm done to them. 

Of the 103 people who filed claims between 2017 and late 2023, about 68% received compensation, according to Jeffrey S. Gutman, a clinical law professor at George Washington University who researches compensation statutes across the country. 

Advocates and people who were wrongfully imprisoned have said that the money often makes a huge difference at an impossibly vulnerable time. Many are rebuilding with no family, no home, no job prospects, no driver's license, no resources to navigate trauma…

https://www.propublica.org/article/why-michigan-failing-compensate-wrongly-convicted-despite-law

Russia Refused to Collect Dead Soldiers, Pay Their Families: Convict

In an interview, the soldier who served in one of the Russian Ministry of Defense's convict units — who was identified as "Aleksandr" — told the Times he was ordered not to collect the bodies of his fellow troops. He told the Times that officers could register the men as "missing in action," meaning their families couldn't collect compensation for them being killed in battle…

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-officers-refused-collect-dead-soldiers-pay-their-families-convict-2023-8

Senate Dems Blast Medicare Advantage Giants Over 'Exorbitant' CEO Pay

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley are calling attention to the massive profits and "exorbitant" executive salaries of top Medicare Advantage insurers such as UnitedHealthcare and Humana, which are leading a lobbying blitz against efforts to combat widespread fraud in the privately run healthcare program…

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-ceo-pay

Elon Musk testifies in Delaware court, defending massive Tesla pay - The Washington Post

The trial highlights Musk's singular position as a top executive of five companies at once, and calls into question whether the terms of his leadership at Tesla are in the best interests of the carmaker's shareholders, or of Musk himself. It's the second time in two years Musk has testified in a trial stemming from a Tesla shareholder lawsuit, after a 2021 trial that questioned his role in Tesla's 2016 acquisition of his cousin's solar-panel company, SolarCity. Musk prevailed in that case...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/elon-musk-tesla-trial-pay/

Some companies are reporting big raises. But they’re not real. - The Washington Post

Under a 2010 U.S. law, major U.S. firms were supposed to calculate and report how much their median worker receives in compensation. But after objections by the U.S. business lobby, regulators allowed companies to take a "short cut."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/19/some-companies-are-reporting-big-raises-theyre-not-real/

The Trump border wall faces a serious legal obstacle - Quartz

US president Donald Trump has staked a lot on his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. He has shut down the federal government over its alleged failure to budget sufficiently for this project and insists that a barrier will solve drug trafficking and immigration woes, even threatening to declare a national emergency to get this done. His insistence is disconcerting, sure. However, his plan is not realistic.....
https://qz.com/1527150/the-trump-border-wall-faces-a-serious-legal-obstacle/

Undisclosed deal guaranteed Roy Moore $180,000 a year for part-time work at charity -- The Washington Post

Moore, a candidate for U.S. Senate, collected more than $1 million from 2007 to 2012, compensation that far surpassed what the group disclosed in its public tax filings most of those years. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/undisclosed-deal-guaranteed-roy-moore-180000-a-year-for-part-time-work-at-charity/2017/10/11/5f56679e-a9de-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.4631cd1bfd6b