Senate Democrats, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, are set to bring a vote on legislation that would require the Supreme Court to adopt a binding ethics code.
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An influential business group is preparing to spend aggressively ahead of the legislative brawl that’s expected next year when Congress will decide whether to renew the expiring chunks of the GOP’s 2017 tax cuts.
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Saudi officials meet with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week at a summit aimed at building closer ties between the two countries.
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Hunter Biden guilty verdict stirs Republican conspiracies
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The US Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady as expected Wednesday, and suggested it could cut rates just once before the end of the year.
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Armenia’s Prime Minister said the country plans to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization, an alliance often described as “Russia’s answer to NATO.”
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Haiti’s transitional council announced it has formed a new government and appointed cabinet ministers as the country struggles to restore political normalcy and tackle spiraling gang violence.
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🟡 SCOOP: Perplexity, the AI search startup that recently came under fire from Forbes, was already planning revenue-sharing deals with publishers, Reed Albergotti reports.

The deals would provide a framework to earn recurring income.
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Following yesterday’s news of GE Vernova deal with Ukraine, Tim McDonnell gets the scoop that the company will also let Kyiv skip to the front of its multiyear line for urgently needed energy components that can help replace its bombed out grid semafor.com/article/06/12/…

🇬🇧 Ben Smith breaks down the British invasion of American newsrooms.

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The Hamas response to the US-backed Gaza ceasefire agreement includes changes that may not all be achievable, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
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In today's Semafor Net Zero: A scoop on GE Vernova's plans to prioritize energy hardware deliveries to #Ukraine , & a look at the challenges the country is facing, both from Russia & internally, in repairing & decarbonizing its battered grid semafor.com/newsletter/06/…

The challenge with Chinese investment in Ethiopia’s industrialization push
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A UN inquiry found that both Israel and Hamas have committed war crimes since the latter’s Oct. 7 attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza.
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A top US energy company says it will prioritize Ukraine for the delivery of vital, backlogged hardware as the country fights to keep the lights on after losing half of its power capacity due to Russian attacks.
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.Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣 on Joe Biden:

'There's not been a president who has done more to try to reward work and to try to actually find and be deeply respectful of the work that workers do in the country, as signified by him walking on a picket line and his wife teaching in a classroom.'

'For most mere mortals who are not gazillionaires, you need to actually have some sense that you have some control over your work life and some control over your life. And that's what labor rights give you,' Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣 tells Ben Smith.

'A CEO in my past life said culture is about how you feel on a Sunday night about going to work the next morning,' Spring Health's Karishma Patel Buford tells Meera Pattni.

'The bigger imperative right now is less about 'Will AI replace the workforce?' It's more about how do we empower the workforce to understand how to use AI,'Chike Aguh tells Jordan Weissmann.

'It's not AI that will take your job. It is a person who will use AI who will take your job.'

'AI is not overhyped,' Handshake's Valerie Capers Workman tells Jordan Weissmann.

'It is extremely important to understand how critical it is to every role, how every job is going to be a tech job ... as long as we are mindful of those things, we will always be competitive.'