Friday Briefing

Britain Passes Sweeping New On-line Security Legislation Britain handed a sweeping regulation on Tuesday to manage on-line content material, introducing age-verification necessities for pornography websites and different guidelines to scale back hate speech, harassment and different illicit materials. The On-line Security Invoice, which additionally applies to terrorist propaganda, on-line fraud and baby security, is without…

Biden Faucets Penny Pritzker to Drive Ukraine’s Financial Revival President Biden on Thursday appointed a former commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker, to be particular consultant for Ukraine’s financial restoration, a brand new place that indicators the Biden administration’s concern concerning the nation’s long-term financial survival whilst its warfare with Russia grinds on. In a press release,…

The Litany of #MeToo Information Continues. Is something actually altering? The countless, relentless eruptions of sexual abuse and harassment scandals can typically seem to be a very grim type of Zeno’s dichotomy paradox. Again within the fifth century B.C., the Greek thinker described how a runner on the trail to a selected vacation spot should…

Three American Lives Eternally Modified by a Weapon Now Being Despatched to Ukraine In the summertime of 2003, not lengthy after U.S. forces had taken Baghdad, a gaggle of Marines have been clearing unexploded ordnance in central Iraq when one of many small grenades littering the bottom detonated. It was a cluster munition dud left…

Financial institution of England Retains Curiosity Charges Regular for First Time in Practically Two Years The Financial institution of England left rates of interest unchanged on Thursday, the primary time in practically two years that it opted to not increase charges throughout a long-running battle in opposition to stubbornly excessive inflation. A day earlier, information…

As Ukraine Support Advantages Their Districts, Some Home Republicans Oppose It By early subsequent yr, this metropolis greatest recognized for being the rodeo capital of Texas is on monitor to turn into a centerpiece of the American effort to extend artillery manufacturing very important to the struggle in Ukraine. A hulking new plant going up…