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Why Seventh-day Adventists are so often vegan or vegetarian

Christianity is often regarded as a staunch opponent of veganism – after all, most Christian denominations are highly carnivorous in their dietary ethics. Many proclaim liberty to consume animal flesh as they assume animals to be a gift created for food by God.

The Conversation

Patients’ right to appeal absent from NMC’s ethics regulations

In cases related to medical negligence

The Hindu

Ronny Jackson spending ‘likely implicates the prohibition against personal use of campaign funds,’ OCE says

WASHINGTON — Monthly dues paid by Texas GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson’s campaign to a private social club in Amarillo, Texas “likely implicates the prohibition against personal use of campaign funds,” the Office of Congressional Ethics has concluded.

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Watchdog: WVa Rep. Mooney likely broke rules with Aruba trip

A congressional watchdog has determined that Rep. Alex Mooney likely broke House rules when the West Virginia Republican accepted a trip to Aruba allegedly paid for by a campaign client and family friend

The Independent UK

House probes Cawthorn crypto scheme

Ethics Committee probes potential insider trading and Cawthorn's relationship with aide who is his cousin

Salon

Rep. Madison Cawthorn faces a House Ethics investigation

The first-term congressman, who lost his reelection bid in last week's primary, is accused of promoting a cryptocurrency he had a financial interest in and an "improper relationship" with a staffer.

WEKU

Ethics panel opens investigation into GOP's Madison Cawthorn

The House Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn had a conflict of interest in a cryptocurrency he promoted and engaged in an improper relationship with a member of his staff

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Rep. Madison Cawthorn under ethics probe for staffer relationship and insider trading allegations

WASHINGTON — Rep. Madison Cawthorn is now under investigation by the U.S. House Committee on Ethics over two questions: whether he engaged in insider trading and twhether he had an inappropriate relationship with a staffer, his scheduler, who also is his second cousin.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Madison Cawthorn being investigated for cryptocurrency and sex claims by House Ethics Committee

The panel is investigation whether Mr Cawthorn ‘improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest, and engaged in an improper relationship with an individual employed on his congressional staff’

The Independent UK

Ronny Jackson spending 'likely implicates the prohibition against personal use of campaign funds,' OCE says - Roll Call

GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas appears to have improperly use campaign funds for use of a private club, ethics office finds.

Roll Call

Rep. Alex Mooney 'likely violated House rules and federal law,' ethics office concludes - Roll Call

By enlisting congressional staff to plan the Aruba trip and using official resources, Mooney likely violated federal law, the OCE said.

Roll Call

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot swept into office as an avowed reformer. Three years later, critics see ‘missed opportunities’ and a mixed record

CHICAGO — As a candidate for mayor, Lori Lightfoot promised to transform Chicago’s often corrupt political culture, in part by taking away the near-total power aldermen have over matters in their own wards and by leading a transparent government.

Chicago Tribune

U.S. Senate Candidate Alan Grayson Loses Libel Lawsuit

Criticism of Grayson (who's now running in the 2022 Florida Senate primary) in his losing 2018 House campaign was based on "articles by independent, reputable sources," and there wasn't clear and convincing evidence that the defendants knew their statements were false or likely false (the so-called "actual malice" standard).

Reason

Wisconsin Secretary of State raises no money this election cycle

According to the most recent campaign finance reports filed with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, Wisconsin Secretary of State Douglas La Follette has raised no money between Jan. 1, 2021 and Mar. 21, 2022.

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Daily Mirror

Partygate fines: What happens now for Boris Johnson after 'murky' police announcement

Boris Johnson has avoided more Downing Street party fines despite penalties being issued for between four and six Partygate events he attended. So how can this be, and what happens now? Here's what you need to know

The Conversation

How to know if your practice of Buddhism through listening to podcasts or use of meditation apps is 'authentic'

Is digital Buddhism, which includes computer-assisted practices such as listening to podcasts and using meditation applications apps, authentic?

The Conversation

COVID has killed 5,600 Australians this year and the pandemic isn't over. Ethics can shape our response

It’s difficult to ask, but how many fatalities should Australia accept from COVID in 2022?

Radio France Internationale

Ethics chiefs urge PSG's Gueye to explain absence from anti-homophobia campaign

French football watchdogs have called on Päris Saint-Germain midfieder Idrissa Gueye to say why he was missing from his side's Ligue 1 match at Montpellier during which the players were required to wear a rainbow jersey in support of the LGBTQI+ movement.

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The Independent UK

Arizona state senator slammed for Buffalo shooting comments

The Arizona Senate has voted to open an ethics investigation into a firebrand Republican member who tweeted inflammatory comments about last weekend’s racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket

Tribune News Service

Baltimore Council members call on President Mosby to comply with ethics order regarding legal defense fund

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby should comply with an ethics board order to return money collected by a legal defense fund established to benefit him and his wife, cease fundraising activities to the fund and produce a list of donors, a group of City Council members said…

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 panel treads risky ground with subpoenas for House peers

The decision by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 US Capitol insurrection to slap House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican lawmakers with subpoenas threatens to plunge Congress into deeper division.

The Conversation

What is 'personhood'? The ethics question that needs a closer look in abortion debates

Controversy over abortion reached a fever pitch on May 2, 2022, when the leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion was published by Politico. If the draft’s key points are reflected in the final ruling, this would strike down Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that nearly 50…

Tribune News Service

Baltimore Council President Nick Mosby violated ethics law by accepting money from city contractors via legal defense fund, board rules

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council President Nick Mosby violated the city’s ethics ordinance by indirectly soliciting for a legal defense fund that took donations from at least two city contractors, the city’s Board of Ethics said in a ruling Thursday that ordered Mosby to stop accepting money from the fund.

WEKU

Kentucky Democrats file ethics complaint against GOP Attorney General Daniel Cameron

The Guardian - UK

Moral arguments alone not enough to justify spying, says MI6 ethics chief

Book review says in reality, intelligence agencies are tasked ‘to defend the national interest for its own sake’

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