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President Trump recently signed The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT) into law. This law makes it a federal crime to intentionally suffocate, crush, burn or drown any "living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians." Additionally, this law bans any video or image depicting animal cruelty. This law had significant bipartisan support (NPR).
President Trump signed Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The Senate sponsor of this law was Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R). This law supports Hong Kong Protestors who are seeking freedom. The provisions of this law include: requiring the U.S. to confirm every year that Hong Kong’s freedom/sovereignty is being upheld by China and establishes a process to institute sanctions and travel restrictions on individuals who violated the rights of people in Hong Kong. Violations of rights would include: forced confessions, arbitrary detention and torture (CNN). Update from Thanksgiving Priceless Briefing Since the publication of the Thanksgiving edition Priceless Briefing article regarding cartel violence in Mexico, President Trump designated Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). This will allow for more sanctions to be imposed and tougher actions against cartels (Fox News).
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