The San Fernando Valley Japanese American Citizens League Chapter has announced that all are invited to at-tend its 84th installation luncheon on Saturday, Jan. 24, at the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center’s Sakaguchi Hall. According to SFV JACL President May Wood, the keynote speaker will be Howard Kakita of the American Society of [.].
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The post US Lawmakers Demand Ethics Safeguards for Market Structure Bill: Report appeared com. Democratic leaders on key committees considering crypto market structure legislation are reportedly drawing a line in the sand over elected officials profiting off the industry. A number of Democratic lawmakers in the US Senate are reportedly pushing for conflict-of-interest guardrails in a crypto market structure bill under consideration. According to a Thursday report which would affect how US regulatory agencies and the government handles digital assets. The lawmakers reportedly pushed for provisions prohibiting public officials, including US President Donald Trump, from profiting from any connections to crypto companies. “It is a red line,” Gallego told Punchbowl on the ethics guardrails. “They need to get it right, or they’re not going to have enough votes to pass this.” The market structure bill, which passed the US House of Representatives as the CLARITY Act, has been under consideration in the Senate since July. Amid debate over provisions such as addressing potential conflicts of interest and decentralized finance, the bill also faced delays from a 43-day government shutdown in October and November. Related: Stand With Crypto puts market structure at top of 2026 agenda Drafts of the Responsible Financial Innovation Act made public by the Senate Banking Committee and Senate Agriculture Committee showed that the bill could give the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) more authority in regulating digital assets. However, some experts have speculated that the 2026 midterm elections could draw support from the bill, especially among Democrats. RFIA’s top supporter to leave Senate in 2027 Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, one of the market structure bill’s earlier supporters and the lawmaker leading the charge for the legislation on the Senate Banking Committee, announced in December that she would not run.
A Long Island bar owner prosecutors call a ‘recidivist drunk driver’ is accused of striking a pedestrian and fleeing the scene while drunk.
Implementation of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) at Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville is forthcoming. Dakota Schulenberg presented the facility’s fourth quarter report to t.
Bayer Leverkusen and Stuttgart will trade tackles in a Bundesliga round 16 clash on Saturday (January 10th). The game will be played at the BayArena.
Donald Trump’s tour of retribution continues as his administration now targets child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York. The five Democratic states are in Trump’s crosshairs. As Mary Trump said in December, “We are at this point now where his physical health, his cognitive decline, and his lack of psychological health are all intersecting and it’s sort of this perfect storm that is accelerating the deterioration of all of them.” She’s not wrong. The New York Times reports: The Trump administration plans to freeze $10 billion in funding for child care subsidies, social services and cash support for low-income families in five states controlled by Democrats, claiming widespread fraud throughout those states, without citing evidence, after a major welfare fraud scheme in one of them. Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado will be cut off from around $7 billion in funding for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which provides cash assistance to households with children, according to two people familiar with the matter. The five states will also lose access to nearly $2. 4 billion for the Child Care Development Fund, which supports child care for working parents, and around $870 million for social services grants that mostly benefit children at risk, the people said. read more.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘s appointed Director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, 37-year-old Cea Weaver, previously claimed that home ownership is a “weapon of White supremacy,” challenging the fundamental American principles of private property rights, capitalism and the American Dream.
“You’re traveling 165 mph and our windscreens are not that thick and it could come right through the windscreen,” helicopter pilot Mike Bonenfant said.
President Donald Trump told House Republicans that if the GOP fails to retain control in the upcoming 2026 midterms, Democrats will likely impeach him for a third time. Trump called on lawmakers to secure a decisive victory this November to protect his “America First” agenda by stopping Democrat overreach.
Davison, who has 113 carries for 667 yards and 15 touchdowns this season, is among 12 players listed as out for the Ducks for Friday’s College Football Playoff semifinal.