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View More NewsUS regulatory agencies missed the rulemaking deadline under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act on Saturday, which marked one year since the law was signed. Several US regulatory agencies published proposed rules and collected public feedback during the past year, but no final regulations were issued before the deadline.These agencies include the Department of the Treasury, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Federal Reserve Board, which issued proposed rules but no final rules, according to rulemaking trackers by law firm Chapman and crypto investment company…
Across the country, progressive politicians continue to push for an ever-higher minimum wage. Whether it’s New York City’s Mamdani-led pursuit of $30 by ’30, L.A.’s $30 “Olympic wage” for hotel workers, or Seattle’s minimum wage for the gig economy, it’s clear that the fight to raise the minimum is only escalating. Now, congressional Democrats have waded into the debate with the introduction of the Living Wage for All Act, spearheaded by Sen. Chris Murphy (D–Conn.). Sen. Murphy’s bill has garnered attention for seeking to increase the federal minimum wage from its current level at $7.25 per hour all the way up to a $25…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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When President Donald Trump announced broad and arbitrary import taxes last April—tariffs that the Supreme Court would later determine were illegal—he said they would…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Wall Street’s clearinghouse, said Wednesday it plans to connect its tokenized securities platform to the Stellar (XLM)…
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In brief YouTube is moving AI disclosure labels into more visible positions on Shorts and long-form videos. The platform will automatically apply labels to…
The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to censor bad news about the Iran war. President Donald Trump even accused journalists…
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