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By Nash JenkinsUpdated: August 4, 2015 9:16 AM stanley cup [ET] | Originally published: August 4, 2015 12:49 AM EDT;The international indignation ignited by the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe last month is persuading some airlines to consider their policy on the shipment of big-game carcasses and body parts known in hunting parlance as trophies .On Monday, Delta, United Airlines and American Airlines announced that they would no longer allow such shipments.Delta mdash; which can get you to Lagos, Accra, Dakar and Johannesburg from Atlanta or New York mdash; has been the subject of a major online campaign. It capitulated Monday, issuing a statement saying it would officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.United followed suit, telling NBC News that it too would enact a ban. American Airlines also tweeted its own prohibition on transporting big game trophies:Effective immediately, we will no longer transport buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion or rhino trophies.mdash; americanair @Ameri stanley cup canAir August 4, 2015United noted that it hasn ;t had many big-game shipments mdash; a statement that TIME cannot independently confirm, though the New York Times reports that the lion share of non-African hunters on the continent come from the U.S. Fifteen thousand Americans go on African hunting holidays each year, and the vast majority want to take tr stanley cup ophies of their kil Jume Mark Zuckerberg Gives $75 Million to San Francisco Hospital
Senators Cynthia Lummis, left, and Kirsten Gillibrand at the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C. in May 2022.Valerie Pleasch/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy Andrew R. ChowJune 7, 2022 5:36 PM EDTItrsquo been a rough month for the crypto world, which has faced market crashes, layoffs, lawsuits from regulators and rising rhetorical pushback from critics. But on June 7, two U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill that, if passed, could clear the way for increased crypto adoption and growth. The Responsible Financial Innovation Act, proposed by the New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand and the Wyoming Republican Cynthia Lummis, aims to take a light regulatory touch, Sen. Lummis said at t adidas campus he DC Blockchain Summit last month. Lummis hopes it will foster innovation while putting up just enough consumer guardrails. While some crypto insiders are excited about the billrsquo potential, skeptics fear it will allow too much leeway in an industry rife with fraud and financial crime. Most experts believe that the billrsquo chances of passage before the midterm elections are extremely slim. Nevertheless, here are some of its main elements. Tax benefits for crypto usersTax filing f air max or crypto users can be extremely onerous, and Gillibrand and Lummisrsquo bill attempts to help ea converse se those difficulties. It stipulates that buying goods or services under $200 with crypto no longer necessitates filing a report to the IRS, which would make it easier to buy a coffee with Bi
By Nash JenkinsUpdated: August 4, 2015 9:16 AM stanley cup [ET] | Originally published: August 4, 2015 12:49 AM EDT;The international indignation ignited by the death of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe last month is persuading some airlines to consider their policy on the shipment of big-game carcasses and body parts known in hunting parlance as trophies .On Monday, Delta, United Airlines and American Airlines announced that they would no longer allow such shipments.Delta mdash; which can get you to Lagos, Accra, Dakar and Johannesburg from Atlanta or New York mdash; has been the subject of a major online campaign. It capitulated Monday, issuing a statement saying it would officially ban shipment of all lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros and buffalo trophies worldwide as freight.United followed suit, telling NBC News that it too would enact a ban. American Airlines also tweeted its own prohibition on transporting big game trophies:Effective immediately, we will no longer transport buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion or rhino trophies.mdash; americanair @Ameri stanley cup canAir August 4, 2015United noted that it hasn ;t had many big-game shipments mdash; a statement that TIME cannot independently confirm, though the New York Times reports that the lion share of non-African hunters on the continent come from the U.S. Fifteen thousand Americans go on African hunting holidays each year, and the vast majority want to take tr stanley cup ophies of their kil Jume Mark Zuckerberg Gives $75 Million to San Francisco Hospital
Senators Cynthia Lummis, left, and Kirsten Gillibrand at the DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C. in May 2022.Valerie Pleasch/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBy Andrew R. ChowJune 7, 2022 5:36 PM EDTItrsquo been a rough month for the crypto world, which has faced market crashes, layoffs, lawsuits from regulators and rising rhetorical pushback from critics. But on June 7, two U.S. senators introduced a bipartisan bill that, if passed, could clear the way for increased crypto adoption and growth. The Responsible Financial Innovation Act, proposed by the New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand and the Wyoming Republican Cynthia Lummis, aims to take a light regulatory touch, Sen. Lummis said at t adidas campus he DC Blockchain Summit last month. Lummis hopes it will foster innovation while putting up just enough consumer guardrails. While some crypto insiders are excited about the billrsquo potential, skeptics fear it will allow too much leeway in an industry rife with fraud and financial crime. Most experts believe that the billrsquo chances of passage before the midterm elections are extremely slim. Nevertheless, here are some of its main elements. Tax benefits for crypto usersTax filing f air max or crypto users can be extremely onerous, and Gillibrand and Lummisrsquo bill attempts to help ea converse se those difficulties. It stipulates that buying goods or services under $200 with crypto no longer necessitates filing a report to the IRS, which would make it easier to buy a coffee with Bi