In a tight vote of 221-212, the U.S. House of Representatives has backed the formalization of the conservative-led impeachment investigation against President Joe Biden. All Republicans rallied in support, despite domestic concerns about the lack of conclusive evidence of misconduct on the part of the president.

House Republicans expressed support for a process that could lead to Biden’s impeachment, thus facing the maximum penalty for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” as the Constitution describes it.

This authorization guarantees the extension of the investigation until 2024, coinciding with the possible re-election of Biden and the probable confrontation with former President Donald Trump, who faced two political trials during his term.

In a joint statement after the vote, President Mike Johnson and his team emphasized that they will not prejudge the outcome of the investigation, but underscored the importance of the evidentiary record. The decision to hold the vote was made amid growing pressure to move forward on the nearly year-old investigation focused on the Biden family’s businesses.

Although the investigation has raised ethical questions, so far no conclusive evidence of bribery or corruption on the part of Biden, either in his current position or in his previous role as vice president, has been found.

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The European Commission has raised this Thursday the creation of a unified ethical body for the European institutions with the aim that the European Union has common standards in the operation of its main institutions, a step that comes after the scandal generated by the plot of bribes from Qatar and Morocco in the European Parliament.

In her presentation at a press conference from Brussels, the vice president responsible for Transparency and Values, Vera Jourova, stressed that the body will close the gap between “different and opaque standards”. “I want the standards to be high, clear and that they apply to all institutions,” he has defended.

The Brussels initiative refers to eight European institutions. In addition, from the European Commission itself, the measure is proposed to the European Parliament, the Council of the EU, the Court of Justice of the EU, the European Central Bank, the European Court of Auditors, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, opening the door for other institutions such as the European Investment Bank to join the agreement once it enters into force.

In any case, the implementation of this body will require an inter-institutional agreement from all of them. That is why Jourova has convened a first political meeting of its leaders at the beginning of July that will serve to kick off the negotiations.

The idea is that the members of these EU institutions are subject to common, clear, transparent and understandable rules, in areas such as the acceptance of gifts, trips, prizes and decorations or transparency measures to hold meetings with representatives of lobbies, in a proposal to extend to other institutions the transparency registry that already operates in the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU.

The newly minted body aspires to establish rules for a unified criterion on the declaration of interests and assets and the processes to follow in these declarations; to shed clarity on the external activities allowed for members of an institution and to set requirements and conditions for the activities of former representatives of the institutions once they leave office.

The rules established by this ethical body will be legally binding, and each institution will have to apply the standards in its internal rules, indicated Jourova, who has insisted that this includes the practical application of unified sanctions in cases of violation of the codes.

The ultimate goal, argued the Czech commissioner, is to promote a common ethical culture that makes it possible to improve transparency in the functioning of the institutions, both for its members and for the public.

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Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty this Tuesday to a total of 34 criminal charges in a Manhattan court in the case of alleged bribery of porn actress Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels.

Trump was indicted last week for the possible secret payment of $130,000 (more than 120,000 euros) to Clifford by former president Michael Cohen’s former lawyer. Trump has thus become the first former US president to be charged, which could end his aspirations to return to the White House in the elections scheduled for 2024.

The imputation of Trump, an unprecedented event in the history of the United States, derives from a case that would date back to 2006, but that did not come to light until 2018, when Stormy Daniels directly and publicly pointed out the magnate for an alleged ‘affair’ out of wedlock that entailed multiple legal derivatives.

The fact in question would not have been one of the many accusations of infidelity or even harassment leveled against Trump in recent years if it were not for the fact that in 2016, a few days before the elections that brought the Republican leader to the White House, Daniels received a payment of $130,000.

With this money, in which Trump’s then lawyer, Michael Cohen, mediated, the tycoon supposedly guaranteed Clifford’s silence. The actress alleges that she accepted the money out of fear for the safety of her family.

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The American company Uber managed to penetrate the main cities around the world thanks to a strategy that included breaking laws, deceiving and lobbying in the highest spheres, according to a leak from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

The more than 124,000 documents that make up the Uber Files expose the ethically questionable practices of the company that Travis Kalanick ran at the time and that went through courting prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media moguls.

The leaked documents are dated between 2013 and 2017 and include communications from Kalanick himself with his managers. One of them acknowledges that they behave like “pirates” and in another leaked document says that “we are just fucking illegal.”

There are 40 countries affected by the documents gathered by the British newspaper The Guardian, which has shared them with 180 journalists from 29 countries.

In response, from Uber they pointed out that “we have not made and will not make excuses for past behaviors that are clearly not consistent with our current values. We ask that you judge us for what we have done in the last five years and what we will do in the next years”.

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