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EU’s Data Act Still Contains Controversial Smart Contract Kill Switch, Despite Lobbying by Polygon, NEAR, Stellar, Cardano
Negotiators said they had struck a deal on the controversial text on June 28, shortly after organizations linked to numerous blockchains, including St [...]
Diplomacy is not ‘an act of weakness’ — decoding Biden’s China outreach
Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping declared meaningful results from Blinken’s trip last month. “The two sides have made progress and reached comm [...]
Blocked Rail Crossings Snarl Towns, but Congress Won’t Act
Freight trains frequently stop and block the roads of York, Ala., sometimes cutting off two neighborhoods for hours. Emergency services and health car [...]
Minister: BBC must ‘act swiftly’ on presenter allegations
Treasury Financial Secretary Victoria Atkins has responded to reports that allege an unnamed BBC presenter paid a teenager for sexually explicit photo [...]
A Times Article, President Kennedy and a ‘Grave Act’ Against U.S. Interests
President John F. Kennedy was apoplectic. An article in The New York Times on July 26, 1962, told readers that the Soviet Union had begun reinforcing [...]
EU finalizes Data Act with a kill switch for smart contracts: Law Decoded, June 27–July 3
European Union lawmakers have agreed to move ahead with the controversial European Data Act, which has previ [...]
Higher Education Act: What to Know as Biden Tries to Cancel Student Loans Again
Even as he denounced the Supreme Court ruling striking down his student debt forgiveness program and blamed Republicans for going after it, President [...]
What Is the HEROES Act?
Lawyers for the Biden administration told the Supreme Court that it could cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt because Congress had [...]
What is the HEROES Act?
Lawyers for the Biden administration told the Supreme Court that it could cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt because Congress had [...]
EU finalizes controversial smart contract kill switch rules under Data Act
The European Union (EU) legislators have reached an agreement to move ahead with the controversial Data Act that drew scrutiny from the crypto communi [...]
EU’s Controversial Data Act Finalized by Negotiators Despite Protest From Web3 Industry
“With the adjustments made to the text we are no longer addressing smart contracts in general but make this regulation applicable specifically to the [...]
The Inform Act takes effect targeting organized retail theft
Locked up merchandise, to prevent theft in Target store, Queens, New York. Lindsey Nicholson | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesThe Inform Consume [...]
Finance ministry seeks amendment of Foreign Exchange Act – 93.3 KFM
The Ministry of Finance is seeking to make amendments to the Foreign Exchange Act which would see the capital requirement run a money remitta [...]
US lawmakers introduce National AI Commission Act
A bipartisan group of United States lawmakers on Tuesday, June 20, introduced an Act to establish a commission to study the country’s approach toward [...]
EU Commission Brushes Off Data Act Fears by Crypto Industry
The letter, signed by companies such as Fujitsu, Ledger and Ripple and lobbying organizations the European Crypto Initiative and Blockchain for Europe [...]