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The US House of Representatives Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which sets appropriations for the defense budget for fiscal year 2023. In total, the 3,854-page NDAA authorizes $857.9 billion in expenditures. Controversially, the bill would lift the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the armed services. The Biden administration implemented the mandate [...]

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What do Taylor Swift, Gal Gadot, and Kristen Bell have in common? Aside from their celebrity, they have all been victims of deepfake pornography. Deepfake technology is used to manipulate media so that the original face in a video is replaced with a face of the user’s choice. While that can make for a funny [...]

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The United States Senate voted 81 to 13 to override US President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday, marking the first time the president’s veto has been overridden by Congress. The NDAA is the annual bill authorizing funding for national defense and has been passed every year since 1961. [...]

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President Trump followed through on threats to veto the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, complaining that it “fails to make any meaningful changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, despite bipartisan calls for repealing that provision.”  In his memo communicating his veto to the House he said that Section 230, absolving [...]

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The US Senate passed the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday with veto-proof majority support amidst President Trump’s threats to reject the legislation. The defense bill, through which Congress authorizes the Pentagon budget, has passed every year for 59 consecutive years. The legislation garnered widespread bipartisan support in the Senate and passed [...]

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The US House of Representatives passed the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act on Wednesday, which aims to prohibit foreign companies from being listed on American stock exchanges if they fail to allow US regulators to review their financial audits, something several Chinese companies have been accused of. The bill was previously introduced by Republican Senator [...]

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The US House of Representatives approved an amendment to the defense bill for fiscal year 2020 on Friday that would require the president to obtain congressional approval before ordering a military strike against Iran. The amendment passed 251-170, largely along party lines but with 27 Republican representatives signing on. The bill itself, the 2020 National [...]

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