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Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s call to the U.S. Congress to pass protections for some undocumented immigrants is stirring interest among his fellow Republicans in Congress, despite the party’s longstanding divisions over immigration that were on display on Wednesday. Trump, who fashioned his 2016 presidential campaign around a pledge to clamp down […]
Self-driving car makers have been testing experimental models on a laborious state-by-state basis while everyone waits for Congress to enact national legislation. But last month, a House of Representatives panel unanimously approved a measure that would exempt tens of thousands of autonomous vehicles from current restrictions and sent it to the floor for a vote […]
Enlarge (credit: Anne Frye) A Democratic senator from New Jersey proposed legislation (PDF) Tuesday that would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances. The proposal, if adopted, would also financially punish states that fail to decriminalize marijuana if they have racial disparities in their arrest and incarceration rates connected to marijuana. Booker (credit: Facebook) […]
A group of senators introduced two bills today to modernize digital privacy. The current federal statutes derive from the Electronics Communication Privacy Act (ECPA), which was passed in 1986. One of their big motions extended phone wiretap laws to include communications between computers — but a lot has changed in the last 30 years, and […]
EU wants to harmonize how online hate speech is removed Online platforms not liable for content posted by users BRUSSELS, April 22 (Reuters) – The European Union is considering legislative measures to harmonise how online platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google take down hate speech and incitement to violence, a draft document seen by Reuters […]
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Reuters President Donald Trump took a big swing at Planned Parenthood on Thursday, signing off on legislation that would allow states to withhold Title X funds from abortion providers. Vice President Mike Pence had all but sealed the deal on March 30, when he cast the deciding vote both in a procedural vote and in the final vote landing […]
The Liberal government has tabled legislation to end the prohibition on pot for recreational use, checking off a major campaign promise from the 2015 campaign. Four cabinet ministers will hold a news conference at 1:05 p.m. ET and CBC.ca will carry it live. CBC | Health News
Enlarge / SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks with White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon at a Policy Forum in February. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) SpaceX founder Elon Musk criticizes NASA and Congress in public only very rarely—which isn’t surprising given that NASA has supported his company with more than $ 3 billion in […]
