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Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, defends the Senate Democrats  vote to weaken filibusters and make it harder for Republicans to block confirmation of the President s nominees for judges and other top posts, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 21, 2013J. Scott Applewhite鈥?stanley cup APBy Katy SteinmetzDecember 10, 2014 12:01 AM ESTA bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in hiring and firing has been introduced in some form mdash; and then failed to become law mdash; in nearly every Congress for the past two decades. On Wednesday, a stanley cup  champion of that bill, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act  ENDA , will ann stanley cup ounce that rather than having another go in the upcoming session, he ;ll turbocharge it instead.Democratic Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley will propose a much broader measure aimed at preventing discrimination against LGBT Americans, not just in employment but also with regard to public accommodations, housing, jury service and financial transactions. It canrsquo;t be right that people are thrown out of their rental housing because of their LGBT status or can be denied entry to a movie theater or to a restaurant, Merkley tells TIME. That simply is wrong and we need to take on this broader agenda. He hopes to have a bill, complete with bipartisan co-sponsors, ready for introduction in four to six months.Despite the popular conception that such protections already exist mdash; one  Yedn A Deadly Suicide Blast in Syria Shows the Battle Against ISIS Is Far From Over
By Jeanna Smialek / BloombergMay 21, 2018 3:12 PM EDTTwitter bots may have altered the outcome of two of af1  the worldrsquo  most consequential elections in recent years, according to an economic study.Automated tweeting played a small but potentially decisive role in the 2016 Brexit vote and Donald Trumprsquo  presidential victory, the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper showed this month. Their rough calculations suggest bots added 1.76 percentage point to the pro-leave vote share as Britain weighed whether to remain in the European Union, and may explain 3.23 percentage points of the actual vote for Trump in the U.S. presidential race.Our results suggest that, given narrow margins of victories in each vote, botsrsquo; effect was likely marginal but possibly large enough to affect the outcomes, according to authors Yuriy Gorodnichenko from the University of California at B yeezy erkeley and Tho Pham and Oleksandr Talavera from Swansea University in th reebok e U.K.The research comes as members of the U.S. intelligence community allege that Russian hackers tried to sway the 2016 presidential election in Trumprsquo  favor in part by deploying Twitter bots, which are programs that control a Twitter account. The president frequently denies that he or members of his team colluded with the hackers, and says he won because he ran a smarter campaign than his Democratic rival.Spread QuicklyAccording to the study, bots tended to influence people most wh