Republican Majority Whip Tom Emmer from Minnesota has introduced the “CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act,” a bill to prevent the Federal Reserve from creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Emmer argues that such a government-controlled programmable digital currency could infringe upon Americans’ financial privacy rights and likened it to China’s social credit system. Emmer’s bill...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Thursday that it would roll back Trump-era restrictions on the Clean Water Act’s rules that previously allowed states to block pipelines and other major federal projects, an agency press release said. Former President Trump scaled back Section 401 of the Clean Water Act in 2020, a rule that had...
This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. Lost in recent news about China’s spy-base in Cuba was the fact that Huawei employees are working for the Latin American dictatorship. The Chinese telecoms giant isn’t just helping maintain an intelligence-gathering facility. It’s also helping Cuba oppress its own citizens.  This is a...
A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against the Southern Regional Medical Center and her doctor after her baby boy was decapitated during delivery. Jessica Ross, 20, claims that while she was in labor on July 9, the baby’s shoulders became stuck inside the vaginal canal. Instead of performing an emergency c-section, the doctor allegedly...