The Daily Populous

Saturday August 17th, 2024 evening edition

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FBI agents have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dimitri Simes, an author and policy analyst, who advised Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign and who currently hosts a current affairs program on Russia’s state-run Channel One.

The raid began on 13 August, the FBI told the local Rappahannock News, which first reported the story.

He was not aware he was the focus of any current law enforcement investigation, he said.

Simes’s son, Dimitri Simes Jr, told Sputnik News that his father has not been in the United States since October 2022.

Simes and the Center for the National Interest featured prominently in the Mueller report, which cleared them of any wrongdoing.

Last year, Simes moderated a conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg international economic forum.

And in June, Simes participated in a closed-door meeting with Putin, the state-owned Russian news agency Tass reported. »

Florida doc not wearing hearing aid couldn't hear colonoscopy patient screaming: complaint

Authored by tennessean.com

A Florida doctor is facing disciplinary action after state officials say his failure to wear hearing aids during a colonoscopy left a patient screaming in pain.

Prasad is hearing-impaired and uses hearing aids in compliance with what the complaint calls the "minimum prevailing professionals standard of care" to allow him to hear and communicate during procedures.

The second colonoscopy performed under Prasad that day was on a patient who was not yet fully sedated, the complaint says. »

San Francisco goes after websites that make AI deepfake nudes of women and girls

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“These images are used to bully, humiliate and threaten women and girls,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Many of the tools are being used to create realistic fakes that “nudify” photos of clothed adult women, including celebrities, without their consent.

Organizations that have been tracking the growth of AI-generated child sexual abuse material will be closely following the San Francisco case. »

Lawyer and family of U.S. Air Force airman killed by Florida deputy demand that he face charges

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More than three months after a U.S. Air Force airman was gunned down by a Florida sheriff’s deputy, his family and their lawyer are demanding that prosecutors decide whether to bring charges against the former lawman.

Fortson, 23, was killed on May 3 by Okaloosa County sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

Now, Crump and the family want the former deputy to face charges. »