A federal court ruled Tues that #FederalReserve Governor #LisaCook can remain in her position while she fights Trump’s efforts to fire her.

The ruling, which will be appealed, is a blow to the #Trump admin’s efforts to assert more #control over the traditionally #independent #Fed, which sets interest rates to achieve its congressionally mandated goals of stable #prices & maximum #employment. #Congress has also sought to insulate the Fed from #politics.

#law #economy
https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook-trump-firing-651fcf0637cf14901bbd559df00c856b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-09-Breaking+News

Over the past quarter century, American #tech companies to a large degree designed & built #China’s #surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling #HumanRights abuses than previously known, an AP investigation found. They sold billions of dollars of technology to the Chinese #police, #government & surveillance companies, despite repeated warnings from the #US #Congress & in the media that such tools were being used to quash #dissent, persecute #religious sects & target #minorities.

Across #China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers…are trapped in a #digital cage, barred from leaving their province & sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital #surveillance apparatus. Most of this #technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide: the #UnitedStates.

#HumanRights #Uyghurs #police #government #dissent #PredictivePolicing #DigitalPoliceState #InternationalLaw #law #geopolitics
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88