Tag: Policies & Impacts

US-Congo Agreement Can Help Fix African Country’s Corrupt China-Dominated Cobalt Industry: Experts

News Analysis The United States signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Zambia late last year. The agreement was intended to facilitate the development of electric vehicle battery supply chains, which involve the mining of critical minerals such as cobalt and copper. The agreement has raised concerns…


PREMIERING 3/21 at 7:30PM ET: The Boot of the State—Mark Chenoweth on Suing Federal Agencies and Ensuring the Separation of Powers

“Congress has to be the one that appropriates any funds from the treasury. That’s the power of the purse that Congress has. And if we lose that, then we’ll lose the country, because it has to be the elected representatives. If the executive is self-funding, then there’s just no ability to rein that in.” Mark…


Biden DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Case That Could Reinstate Federal Gun Ban

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court ruling that struck down a federal law preventing people under domestic violence-related restraining orders from having guns. The Biden administration asked in its new petition (pdf) for the high court to hear the case on a “highly expedited schedule”…


Owner of National COVID Testing Company Indicted on Federal Criminal Charges

A Chicago man has been slapped with a federal indictment on allegations he frauded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency out of more than $83 million with bogus or nonexistent COVID tests. The indictment against Zishan Alvi, owner of LabElite, was handed down on March 8. It was obtained by the…


National COVID Testing Company’s Co-Owner Indicted for Defrauding US Agency Out of $83 Million

The co-owner and operator of a Chicago-based laboratory company that operated COVID-19 testing sites during the pandemic faces federal charges that he defrauded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency out of more than $83 million with bogus or nonexistent testing. Zishan Alvi, 44, of LabElite, was indicted by a federal grand…


National COVID-19 Testing Company’s Co-Owner Indicted for Defrauding US Agency Out of $83 Million

The co-owner and operator of a Chicago-based laboratory company that operated COVID-19 testing sites during the pandemic faces federal charges that he defrauded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency out of more than $83 million with bogus or nonexistent testing. Zishan Alvi, 44, of LabElite, was indicted by a federal grand…


Florida Libel Bill May Challenge Long-Standing Supreme Court Decision

Zak Young says his business and livelihood were destroyed—and innocent lives endangered—when CNN allegedly trashed him in TV and print stories. As an elite security operator who had the skills and contacts to extract people from Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban, Young saw himself savaged as a black marketer seeking to fleece helpless…


Wyoming Adopts Abortion Pill Ban

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon has signed a bill prohibiting abortion pills while allowing a separate measure that restricts abortion to become law without his signature. Gordon signed the bill into law on Friday, prohibiting chemical abortions in Wyoming, which became the first state in the country to prohibit the abortion pill outside of a full ban…


Texas Senate Committee Passes Bill Restricting Transgender Athletes from Competing in Collegiate Sports

The Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs has approved a bill restricting transgender athletes in intercollegiate athletic competitions. Senate Bill 15, also known as the Save Women’s Sports Act, authored by Republican state Sen. Mayes Middleton would require college-level athletes to compete based on a student’s biological sex as shown on their birth certificate. The…


California School District Emails Reveal Students Were Secretly Gender Transitioned

A parental rights group in Orange County, Calif., claims 23 students—eight of them elementary age—began social gender transitioning at a local school district without informed parental consent from January 2020 to October 2022. The group, California Alliance for Education, obtained hundreds of pages of emails and documents from the Newport-Mesa Unified School District, which oversees…