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View More NewsA group of Democrat Senators said in a statement late Wednesday that the bill still fell “short” of where it needed to be to get their support, but that they would keep working on it with Republicans. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, argued Wednesday that the policy as written would let Trump continue his crypto businesses largely untouched, and any improper activity would be ignored by his loyal Department of Justice and then legally fenced off from prosecution once he leaves office.Other outstanding issuesBeyond ethics, lawmakers may continue to negotiate over illicit finance provisions,…
Just when I thought that Biden-era antitrust antagonism against tech companies was starting to fade, President Donald Trump has nominated Adam Candeub to lead antitrust enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ). Currently serving as general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission, Candeub recently penned a report about how we need to criminalize pornography in order to protect marriage and promote human flourishing. Earlier generations, which he calls on us to emulate, took “measures to curb access to [sexual material] so that sexual desire could be channeled more easily into marriage,” he wrote. You are reading Sex & Tech, from…
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On a black volcanic beach, Christopher Nolan peers into a wheeled contraption that looks like a portable air-conditioner. The IMAX camera, weighing some 180 kilograms, is encased in a black box—a “blimp”—designed to muffle the camera’s sound. Unhoused, the machine is so loud that Matt Damon compared it to ‘a blender… in your face’. Nolan had used IMAX cameras for action scenes before, but this new casing let him do something he never could: film quiet dialogue, with the huge machine only inches from an actor’s face. The Odyssey, Nolan’s thirteenth feature film, is the first narrative feature shot entirely…
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In my book, in defense of considerably more constitutional protection for student speech, I make an autonomy-enhancing argument, relying not only on the importance…
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A high-ranking government official has sexual relations in the workplace on multiple occasions. An article of fabric is stained. The official is asked about…
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US authorities have charged a Google employee with allegedly using information from the company to make bets on Polymarket and profit $1.2 million.The Justice…
U.S. President Donald Trump pressed Tuesday for federal regulators to keep control over prediction markets, calling it a “critically important” issue as states move…