Peter Van Doren Automobile fuel mileage standards (also known as Corporate Average Fuel Economy or CAFE standards) are back in the news. The Senate budget reconciliation bill (also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill) contains a provision to set the fines to $0 for violation of those standards, although the actual law is not repealed because it could not ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to formally lift all sanctions on Syria on Monday afternoon. ‘The United States is committed to supporting a Syria that is stable, unified, and at peace with itself and its neighbors,’ the order stated, while directing the secretaries of State, Commerce and Treasury to relieve sanctions and waive export controls. ‘This is in ...
Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are warning they have serious issues with the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ as it’s currently written. The group of GOP rebels argued in a public statement on Sunday that the Senate bill adds $1.3 trillion to the federal deficit, whereas the House-passed bill would increase the federal deficit ...
The State Department has revoked the visas for members of the Bob Vylan band, after the British punk-rap duo called for ‘death to the IDF’ during a Saturday performance in England’s Glastonbury Music Festival. The band Bob Vylan, made up of two musicians with the stage names Bobby Vylan and Bobbie Vylan, is slated to tour the U.S. later in ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Over the past several years, different jurisdictions in the US, Canada, and Europe have allowed people who use illicit drugs to access harm reduction equipment through vending machines. In 1987, Denmark became the first country to permit harm reduction organizations to operate vending machines. Since then, harm reduction vending machines have spread across Europe, including in Austria, ...
Matthew Cavedon In 1995, when petitioner Holsey Ellingburg, Jr., robbed a bank, federal criminal restitution was governed by the Victim and Witness Protection Act (VWPA). The VWPA provided that a defendant’s liability to pay restitution ended twenty years after the entry of judgment. Then, in 1996, Congress enacted the Mandatory Victim Restitution Act (MVRA), which extended the liability period to ...
The ninth day of the ongoing High Court trial between PPE Medpro and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) turned attention to the government’s handling of surplus PPE stock—specifically, why no effort was made to repurpose or sell the £122 million-worth of gowns supplied by PPE Medpro. Two expert witnesses, Andrew New for the DHSC and Igor Popovic ...
David J. Bier On June 26, the National Foundation for American Policy and the Cato Institute hosted a briefing for congressional staffers. I detailed how the Trump administration is carrying out its mass deportation agenda. Here’s the four-part plan I discussed: Strip people of their legal status, legal protection, and citizenship. Arrest based on convenience, not threat, and use of ...
President Donald Trump is confident that democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani would ‘crush’ New York City if he is elected mayor, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says. Leavitt made the statement during a Monday press briefing while fielding multiple questions from reporters about Mamdani’s victory in the democratic mayoral primary. Fox News’ White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt about ...
Below is the EB Weekly Market Report that I sent out earlier to our EarningsBeats.com members. This will give you an idea of the depth of our weekly report, which is a very small piece of our regular service offerings. We called both the stock market top in February and stock market bottom in April, and encouraged EB members to ...