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View More NewsUS Senate Majority Leader John Thune has filed cloture on a motion to take up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, also known as the CLARITY Act, setting up a key procedural vote on the crypto market structure bill for September.The vote is expected after the Senate reconvenes on Sept. 15, giving lawmakers several more weeks to resolve disagreements that prevented a deal before the August recess.The Senate Daily Press confirmed that Thune filed cloture on the motion to bring the CLARITY Act to the Senate floor for consideration. Invoking cloture requires 60 votes, meaning Republicans will need Democratic support…
Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has spent over $525 million on surveillance technologies, including millions in private contracts to “dramatically expand the agency’s ability to monitor online critics and potential threats,” according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Monday. The report has revealed more details about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) emerging surveillance dragnet used to track, unmask, and prosecute critics of ICE, and its chilling effect on Americans’ constitutionally protected speech. Many of the contracts the report cites are part of an initiative headed by ICE’s Office…
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