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How a Left-Right Social Media Tiff Pushed Texas to Fund Parks
An unusual partnership between an environmentalist and a Republican megadonor began with a fight on Twitter. It ended up in the creation of a $1 billion state fund to expand Texas park land.
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The Art of Storytelling: How Literature Shapes Our Understanding of Life
I’ve always believed that literature is like a mirror reflecting the chaos and beauty of life. It’s through stories that we learn to navigate our own experiences, make sense of the world around us, and sometimes, escape from it. Growing up, I was that kid who’d sneak a flashlight under the covers just to finish…
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CFTC Opens the Door to Digital Asset Collateral: Regulatory Guidance, No-Action Relief, and Practical Implications
I. Executive Summary – On December 8, 2025, the staff of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) launched a “digital assets pilot program” (the “Digital Assets Pilot Program”) providing greater certainty to commodity derivatives market participants who wish to accept collateral in the form of certain digital assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and…
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Federal Regulatory Update: HHS Proposes Rule to Deregulate Health IT and Advance AI-Interoperability (HTI-5)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), has released a proposed rule that would significantly roll back federal certification requirements for health IT developers. The proposal—known as HTI-5, the fifth iteration of the Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability rulemaking—marks…
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Making a List, Checking it Twice: Avoiding Cyber Attacks During the Holidays
What’s the Concern? During the holiday season—specifically, Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day—there tends to be a spike in cyber attacks on companies. Cyber attackers target this time of year due to staffing and information technology (IT) shortages, slower response times and increased online activity, especially in retail and banking industries….By:…
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HHS Proposes Rule to Deregulate Health IT and Advance AI-Interoperability (HTI-5)
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy/Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ASTP/ONC), has released a proposed rule that would significantly roll back federal certification requirements for health IT developers….By: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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A Year of Change Across Financial Regulation – and What Comes Next, December 2025 – SEC Staff Issues No-Action Relief for DTC Tokenization Pilot
On December 11, 2025, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets issued a no-action letter (the “DTCC No-Action Letter”) stating that it would not recommend enforcement action against The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) in connection with the launch of a pilot version of its DTCC Tokenization Services. The relief permits DTC to…
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A Dancing Dictator and Bankers in Chains: The Other Venezuela Blockade
A crisis more than a century ago involved U.S. aims to assert military supremacy, a hard-partying dictator and frictions among the great powers.
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This Ukrainian Soldier Spent More Than a Year on the Front Line
Serhii Tyschenko, a Ukrainian combat medic, spent 472 days in a bunker. His case appears to be an extreme example of a problem that has long plagued Kyiv’s military.
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Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One
Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.
