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Reading Time: < 1 minute Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce Fact Briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. No. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, the Democratic nominee for governor, has supported reducing Wisconsin’s prison population through crime prevention and reducing recidivism. Crowley has supported rehabilitative services for nonviolent offenders and commutations; decriminalizing cannabis; and expanding drug courts. He has backed education programs aimed at diverting youths from committing crimes. Crowley also has backed job training and other efforts aimed at reducing recidivism and prevention measures such as “violence interruption programs.” …

What is the kindest way to kill? That’s the question being asked once more following Tennessee’s failed attempts to execute Christa Pike for the brutal murder of a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, when she was 18. The 50-year-old was taken to a medical facility, her condition unknown, with witnesses describing her snoring loudly around 40 minutes after receiving two injections of pentobarbital on Wednesday. It is the second botched killing in months, prompting Tennessee’s governor to order a halt to executions.Lethal injection was supposed to be the humane alternative to firing squads and electric chairs. They in turn were seen as…

A claim that U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change “artificial intelligence” to “super intelligence” so that he and his associates could profit from the sale of domain names with the top-level domain “.si” circulated in late September 2026 but remains unproven. The rumor stems from a social media thread by independent journalist Adam Cochran, who claimed that a spike in Slovenian domain registrations in May and June 2026, prior to Trump’s announcement, indicated collusion. He suggested Trump may have tipped off associates about the coming change in order for them to “domain squat” — to buy a…

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is in “critical condition, receiving life-saving care” at hospital, after surviving two lethal injection attempts, leading the state’s governor to halt all executions for the year.”We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” her lawyer Randy Spivey told reporters on Thursday. “But we do know that that she is alive right now.” Her lawyers are now asking for her sentence to be commuted. Pike, 50, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer. She was injected with two lethal doses of…

Cet argument ne convainc pourtant pas Eric Coquerel. Pour le président de la commission des Finances et député LFI, si le gouvernement voulait réellement éviter de figer les choix budgétaires avant la présidentielle, il aurait pu opter pour une loi spéciale (soit la reconduction provisoire du budget précédent) et laisser le prochain pouvoir arbitrer. La nécessité d’un budget bis Cette “souplesse” mise en avant par le gouvernement présente toutefois des limites pour les grandes mesures fiscales. Contrairement aux gels ou aux mesures explicitement conçues pour pouvoir être modifiées par décret, les principales dispositions fiscales du PLF comme du PLFSS ne…

Donald Trump’s push to rename AI may be behind an “unprecedented” rise in registrations for domain names in Slovenia, according to its official national registry.The US president wants AI to be called “super intelligence” – or SI – the same initials used by Slovenian websites.Register.si spokeswoman Klara Herman said 44,000 web addresses with the .si suffix had been registered in September, compared to less than 2,000 in August – an increase of more than 2,100%.She said the scale of activity in late September was “unprecedented” compared to the previous 12 months.Trump called for the technology to be renamed during his…

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec’s suspected administrator and main operator, Hamburg police said on October 1. Police and prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany, led the operation. The Guardia Civil and the Mossos d’Esquadra, both Spanish police forces, detained him in Alicante and searched a home and…

On September 17, the SEC drew the line. Its long-awaited “innovation exemption,” which lets blockchain venues list and trade tokenized securities, excludes synthetic tokens outright. Qualifying tokens must represent real ownership, and, in Chairman Paul Atkins’ words, they “must provide holders with the same rights and privileges as the traditional securities,” dividends and voting included. The SEC’s innovation exemption even addresses AMC’s concerns by requiring that companies get notice and the right to object before a third party tokenizes their shares.The better model is not a whitepaper or promise; it is already being built at the very center of U.S.…

Atherosclerosis, the gradual buildup of plaque inside arteries that drives most cardiovascular disease, can begin many years before a person notices any symptoms. Now, a large international study suggests that this hidden disease is already present in some young adults who otherwise appear healthy, and that it is considerably more widespread than previously recognized. The research was led by Professor Henning Bundgaard, Professor of Cardiology at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Dr. Borja Ibáñez, Scientific Director of the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, CNIC, cardiologist at Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz and a group leader at CIBERCV. Among…

If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure and cleanest, you’d probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right? That’s one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move toward electrification. Fatih Birol, head of the IEA, discussed some of the concepts from the report the following day at the United Nations. “Many, many years in the energy world, we had three choices in front of us. Shall I choose the most secure energy option? Shall I choose the most economic energy option? Or shall I choose…