Trump Would Veto a National Abortion Ban

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that President Donald Trump would veto a nationwide abortion ban if it were passed during his second term. “Abortion has been a hot topic throughout the campaign,” host Kristen Welker said. “Democrats have been saying this week and beyond this week that if Donald […]

CNBC host slams Warren over defense of price-gouging ban

Joe Kernen, co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” came out against the price-gouging ban proposal during a fiery interview with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Friday, calling Warren’s claims “false” and “misleading.” The Massachusetts senator worked on a price-gouging bill with Harris in 2020 and introduced a similar bill earlier this year, but argued that states […]

Taliban government issues public ban on women’s voices, bare faces

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has banned women from speaking or showing their faces in public under a new law approved by the supreme leader as part of efforts to fight vice and promote virtue. The laws were promulgated on Wednesday with the approval of Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. After seizing power in […]

Federal judge blocks FTC noncompete ban

A federal judge ruled Tuesday Blocked a nationwide ban The ban on non-competition agreements will come into effect in September. In April, the Federal Trade Commission voted to ban most non-compete agreements that prevent tens of millions of employees from quitting their jobs to work for or start a competing business. Dallas-based tax firm Ryan […]

Elon Musk’s ban on remote work at X beats disability bias claim

A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Elon Musk forced the social media platform X to stop hiring people with disabilities after he took control of the platform and banned employees from working from home. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Holguin in San Francisco said Dmitry Volodaenko, a plaintiff in a […]

Exclusive | ‘Hypocritical’ NYC union wants to ban hotel outsourcing –

The city’s powerful labor unions, which are pushing legislation to ban New York hotels from outsourcing certain front-line jobs, have noted that records show they have routinely outsourced administrative work at their Manhattan headquarters, including to non-union companies. According to records filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, over the past 10 years, the Hotel […]

California’s Plastic Bag Ban Produced More Plastic Bag Waste

California’s ban on thin plastic shopping bags in 2014 has actually increased, rather than reduced, the amount of plastic bag waste. The Wall Street Journal. Breitbart News reported on the fight over plastic bag bans, which were first implemented in states across the U.S. in 2014, and noted that the bans were a regressive tax […]