FTC Releases Reports on Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Sales and Marketing Expenditures for 2016

Washington, DC - The number of cigarettes that the largest cigarette companies in the United States sold to wholesalers and retailers nationwide declined from 244.2 billion in 2015 to 240.5 billion in 2016, according to the most recent Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report.

Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities

Washington, DC - On April 1, 2015, by Executive Order 13694, the President declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the increasing prevalence and severity of malicious cyber‑enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States. 

Uber Self-Driving Cars, Liability, and Regulation

Stanford, California - Last week the first fatality involving a self-driving Uber car was reported in Tempe, Arizona.  As new autonomous technologies develop, offering us self-driving cars, trains, buses, and drone deliveries, what are the legal issues? And what regulation is needed? In the discussion that follows, Stanford Law School Professor Robert Rabin answers some of these questions.

President Donald J. Trump’s Call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada

Washington, DC - President Donald J. Trump spoke today with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada to affirm the solidarity of both countries with the United Kingdom and discuss the joint expulsions of Russian intelligence officers in response to Russia’s use of a military-grade chemical weapon on the United Kingdom’s soil. 

Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star

Cambridge, Massachusetts - On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light years away that were created by a tidal disruption flare, an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star. Since this discovery, astronomers have trained other telescopes on this very rare event to learn more about how black holes devour matter and regulate the growth of galaxies.