Maine became the fourth state to end the practice, which enables law enforcement to confiscate millions of dollars worth of property without ever filing criminal charges.
The Chinese province of Anhui has become the latest to ban cryptocurrency mining as Beijing steps up efforts to restrict the energy-intensive practice and achieve its climate goals.
The discovery of a deep-sea hotspot of life and biodiversity could prove crucial for the sustainability and resilience of the eastern Mediterranean Sea’s marine ecosystem, while enabling researchers to assess the potential effects of global warming on ecological functionality.
The question that was raised then, and which has been answered decisively in Collins v. Yellen, as of June 23, 2021, is whether these preferred and common shareholders of Fannie and Freddie could undo the so-called “net worth sweep” (NWS) that the United States Treasury and the Federal Housing Fi...
British police have confiscated around $250 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of an ongoing money laundering investigation, London’s Metropolitan Police announced Tuesday, marking one of the largest crypto seizures in the world.
Recent data from Israel suggests two doses of the Pfizer shot are 64% effective at preventing infection and symptomatic Covid-19 from the Delta variant, a significant drop from earlier studies of around 90%.
Joe Biden’s executive order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” would do the opposite if carried out—and signals an effort to further consolidate federal power over agriculture, airlines, banking, broadband, health, and the technology sector. There are better alternatives.
In 2010, a Democratic-controlled Congress established price controls and new routing regulations on debit card transactions with the Durbin Amendment (Section 1075 of the Dodd-Frank Act). Republicans appear set to extend this harmful policy to the credit-card market.
The group said WhatsApp has been “bombarding users for months with aggressive and persistent pop-up messages to force them to accept its new terms of use and privacy policy.”
On July 8, 2021, the European Parliament approved a resolution focused on addressing the deteriorating situation of human rights in Hong Kong, among others, it calls for diplomats to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.