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Thune Signals Senate Will Pursue Stand-Alone FISA Renewal Despite Trump's Demands
Thune Signals Senate Will Pursue Stand-Alone FISA Renewal Despite Trump's Demands
Via American Greatness,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, (R-SD,) said Monday that Senate Republicans are moving forward with plans to renew a key federal surveillance authority as a stand-alone measure, despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that it be tied to election legislation.
Thune told reporters the Senate is working to revive Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which expired over the weekend after Congress failed to extend it before a deadline.
“We will try and move 702 as soon as we feel like...
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Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us
Maybe the most prominent economic discussion circulating today is the fear that the vast majority of people have been priced out of housing markets for the rest of their lives, regardless of the country they live. Gen Z and even Gen Alpha teens are already planning for a future in which buying a home is impossible. Those that are buying are aiming for cost efficiency and they are buying alone (prioritizing savings and home ownership over...
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May 22, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Regulators Circle StanChart After CEO's AI Layoff Comments Spark Uproar
Regulators Circle StanChart After CEO's AI Layoff Comments Spark Uproar
It has been a tumultuous week for Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters.
Winters appeared out of touch with the growing anxiety surrounding mounting white-collar AI-related job losses. He described the bank's AI adoption push as "not cost-cutting," but rather as "replacing lower-value human capital with financial and investment capital."
Such language ignited a firestorm for the CEO and the bank, and by the end of the week, regulatory scrutiny had descended on the firm.
Reuters reports that authorities in Hong Kong and...
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Apr 15, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Russia Vows To 'Fill China's Energy Resource Gap' Amid Hormuz Crisis In Lavrov-Xi Meeting
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At a moment it remains a serious open question over just how vulnerable China is to the Hormuz Strait crisis, and now with the US-imposed US naval blockade of the vital oil transit waterway, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Beijing pledging energy support to China.
Lavrov met with President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, during which Xi urged China and Russia to "give full play to the advantages of geographic proximity and complementarity, deepen all-round cooperation and raise...
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