Pro-Trump billionaires pour money into support
Rich Republicans may have initially balked at Donald Trump, but pro-Trump billionaires are leaving the sidelines in the last week of the election to dump cash directly into crucial counties and swing states. Hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer's Super Pac, Make America Number 1, has suddenly flooded the NBC station in Jefferson County, Florida, with $40,000 worth of pro-Trump ads. But the George Soros- Jay Pritzker funded Priorities USA is also pouring money into last minute pro-Clinton ad buys. Pro-Trump billionaires pour money into last-minute bid for swing states Gina Miller, vanquisher of UK's Brexit plan The businesswoman at the centre of the legal challenge to ensure the UK parliament is consulted before Theresa May triggers Britain's exit from the European Union has said the landmark case was motivated by her fear that the UK faced a "treacherous future". Gina Miller says she knew the ruling would leave her unpopular with many EU referendum voters, but believed that the UK had failed itself and the rest of Europe by voting to leave the bloc rather than reform it from within. Gina Miller on her Brexit legal challenge: 'This had to be done' Penn State faces $2.4m fine over sex assault incidents
The Department of Education is poised to exact a record $2.4m fine to Penn State University for its mishandling of sexual assault incidents that include the child sex abuse crimes committed by Jerry Sandusky. The proposed fine was immediately hailed by victims' advocates as a warning shot to other colleges. "This signals a significant change in how seriously the department is taking its enforcement responsibilities," said S Daniel Carter, a longtime campus safety advocate. Penn State faces $2.4m fine for handling of Jerry Sandusky case and other crimes Justin Trudeau: one year on The optimistic prime minister has charmed Canadians, and the world, during his first year in office. Now the challenge is to prove he's a change maker. Details must be hashed out on the government's plans to legalise recreational marijuana, reform the country's electoral system and meet its emission targets. After a year of vague promises to strike a balance between environmental protection, a limping economy and a fraught relationship with Indigenous peoples, Trudeau's government will be forced to put these pledges to the test in imminent decisions on several massive energy projects. Tru love: Canada's year of Justin Trudeau has been a honeymoon, but will it last? The Guardian is an independent voice in this year's election That means no bias or corporate owner influencing our coverage. But in-depth political reporting takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. If everyone who reads our coverage helps to pay for it, our future will be more secure. Support the Guardian with a monthly payment, or a one-time contribution. It's not about rates rises – it's about cuts, warns Rogoff Markets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the next 12 months. This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it could cut rates in the next deep recession, writes Kenneth Rogoff professor of economics and public policy at Harvard University. Given that the Fed may struggle just to get its base interest rate up to 2% over the coming year, there will be very little room to cut if a recession hits. Fed will have little room to cut interest rates if recession hits The rise of the political meme These shareable, sometimes pithy and often puerile units of culture have emerged as the lingua franca of the 2016 election, and have given the American people an entirely new way of articulating their beliefs. Clinton's top tweet is a meme. Trump's taco bowl became one. Through memes, Ted Cruz was "unmasked" as the Zodiac killer. Jeb Bush's limp plea for applause got him Vined into oblivion. Bernie Sanders shared a moment with a bird. Memes can be fun, or they can be dumb. Meme warfare: how the power of mass replication has poisoned the US election How to foil facial recognition software … A team of researchers from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University have created sets of eyeglasses that can prevent wearers from being identified by facial recognition systems, or even fool the technology into identifying them as completely unrelated individuals. Researchers found by picking a pair of "geek" frames, with relatively large rims and printing a pattern over those frames then had the effect of manipulating the image and making the wearers face unreadable. Want to beat facial recognition? Get some funky tortoiseshell glasses In case you missed it Silence has come to define the current climate throughout the world of country music, a genre that has historically aligned with the Republican party for the past half-century. In 2016 that allegiance feels as flimsy as ever, but a wide range of factors have made the 2016 election a taboo topic of conversation in Nashville's country music industry. "Everybody seems to be wanting to talk about it, but there's no public discourse," says songwriter Bobby Braddock. Country music has become apolitical': why have acts kept quiet on the election? | 
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