The European Union launched anti-competitive investigations on Monday against tech behemoths Apple, Alphabet, and Meta for potential breaches of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The companies are alleged to have run afoul of the DMA, a law designed to monitor large online platforms or ‘gatekeepers.’ These are businesses with a large user base, active in […]
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy criticized the Espionage Act as the “most un-American” law in U.S. history, when commenting on the Department of Justice’s classified documents case against former President Donald Trump. “There’s a difference between a bad judgment and a crime. The Presidential Records Act was nowhere mentioned in that 49-page indictment in the documents […]
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is threatening to pull news feeds on its platforms for California residents if the state legislature passes the Journalism Preservation Act. In a statement posted on Twitter on May 31, Meta expressed its opposition to the proposal AB 886, which requires big tech companies to pay news outlets […]
A Republican senator has been censured over voting for a bill that supports same-sex marriage. Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) was censured by the Cass County Republican Central Committee, according to a letter obtained by The Epoch Times. Young’s vote in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, which codifies the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling that requires […]
Senate Democrats—aided by 12 Republicans—took a giant step on Nov. 28 toward the final passage of the “Respect for Marriage Act” that many civil liberties experts say will seriously damage Americans’ freedom of religious practice and expression. The 61 to 35 vote came on a cloture motion to limit debate on the Senate floor to […]
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been charged under the country’s terrorism act for allegedly “threatening” police officers and a female magistrate in his rally speech on Saturday, according to local reports. A first information report (FIR) was filed against Khan on Sunday, stating that he “terrorized and threatened” additional sessions judge Zeba Chaudhry […]
A federal judge on Aug. 18 has temporarily blocked part of Florida’s “Stop WOKE Act,” also known as the state’s Individual Freedom Act. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in April signed the measure, FL HB 7, which he called the “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids Act,” to prohibit the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools, and require […]
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee say they have received information from the non-partisan scorekeeper at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) challenging the Biden administration’s narrative that Americans making less than $400,000 a year won’t see higher IRS audit rates. The remarks came in an Aug. 12 statement that was published as the […]
The Inflation Reduction Act is the reason for a lot of debate. Economists don’t seem to agree on whether it will fuel or cool inflation. The government’s inflation report for July, to be released Wednesday morning, is expected to show that prices jumped 8.7 percent from a year earlier—still a sizzling pace but a slowdown […]
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) has criticized Democrats for pushing their so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which he warns is a “terrible bill.” The bill will double the size of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). But IRS agents are not designed to go after “billionaires and big corporations,” Cruz said in an interview with Fox News. “They’re […]
The California State University system is making a major change to its admissions process. Students applying to state universities are no longer required to take standardized tests. NTD has all the changes parents and students alike will need to watch out for.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Feb. 9 said she supports increasing restrictions on members of Congress trading stocks. “We have to tighten the fines on those who violate the STOCK Act. It’s not sufficient to deter behavior,” Pelosi told reporters in Washington during a press conference. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act […]
Harvard University announced Thursday they’re extending their “test-optional admissions policy” for another four years. So students applying for the university won’t be required to take the SAT or ACT standardized tests. NTD with a professor on what this could mean.
Andrew Torba, the founder and CEO of Gab, has said he will not be complying with the German Network Enforcement Act, despite mounting legal fines from authorities. In a blog post published on Sept. 20, Tora said he had received a “huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany” […]
