美国参议院否决加密监管法案，行业遭重大挫折

R HEADLINES ON CAPITOL HILL, WHERE SENATE DEMOCRATS BLOCKED A BILL THAT WOULD HAVE INTRODUCED SWEEPING REGULATIONS FOR CRYPTO-CURRENCIES.

THREE FIFTHS OF THE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AS SWORN HAVING NOT VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. THE MOTION IS NOT AGREED TO. AMNA: BY VOTE OF 49-50, LAWMAKERS REJECTED THE MEASURE, KNOWN AS THE CLARITY ACT, IN WHAT'S SEEN AS A MAJOR SETBACK FOR THE CRYTPO INDUSTRY. DEMOCRATS HAD PUSHED FOR STRONGER SAFEGUARDS TO PREVENT THE PRESIDENT AND OTHER OFFICIALS FROM PROFITING WHILE IN OFFICE. FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL DEFENDED HIS HANDLING OF THE AGENCY DURING A NEARLY FIVE-HOUR SENATE HEARING.

APPEARING BEFORE THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, PATEL WAS QUESTIONED ABOUT HIS FIRING OF EXPERIENCED AGENTS AND THE FBI'S PLANS FOR THE MIDTERMS. AT ONE POINT, HE REFUSED TO SAY WHETHER JOE BIDEN WON THE 2020 ELECTION. AND HE DEFENDED THE AGENCY'S LOOSENING OF CERTAIN HIRING REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO PROSTITUTION AND BESTIALITY. PATEL SAID THE CHANGE WAS ABOUT PROTECTING VICTIMS, NOT LOWERING STANDARDS.

WE DID NOT WANT TO PUNISH VICTIMS OF BESTIALITY, VICTIMS WHO WERE TRAFFICKED. WE DID NOT WANT TO MAKE IT AN AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION FOR THE FBI TO CONSIDER YOU IF YOU ARE A VICTIM OF THESE AWFUL, HEINOUS ACTS.

AND WHEN YOU SAW BESTIALITY, I SAY THIS WITH RESPECT. THE PERSON WHO RECOMMENDED IT, WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY WHAT PLANET DID YOU PARACHUTE IN FROM? AMNA: IN A STATEMENT PROVIDED TO THE NEWS HOUR, AN FBI SPOKESPERSON SAID THE AGENCY IS NOT RELAXING HIRING STANDARDS, PULLING THE IDEA "TOTALLY FAL SE." FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE U.S. MILITARY HAS CONFIRMED IT HAS WEAPONS IN SPACE. AIR FORCE SECRETARY TROY MEINK MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT AT A CONFERENCE YESTERDAY, SAYING THE U.S.

HAS, AS HE PUT IT, ON-ORBIT SPACE CONTROL WEAPONS CAPABLE OF DEFENDING THE JOINT FORCE AGAINST HOSTILE ADVERSARY ACTION. HE DID NOT DETAIL WHAT THOSE WEAPONS ARE OR HOW THEY WORK. BUT THERE'S ALREADY BEEN PUSHBACK, WITH CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY WARNING AGAINST AN ARMS RACE THAT COULD TURN SPACE INTO A WARZONE. AND A KREMLIN SPOKESPERSON CALLED FOR THE "COMPLETE DEMILITARIZATION OF SPACE." IN THE MIDDLE EAST, SAUDI ARABIA AND THE IRAN-BACKED HOUTHI REBELS OF YEMEN ACCUSED EACH OTHER OF MORE ATTACKS TODAY, AS THAT CONFLICT ONLY GROWS WORSE.

THE SAUDI MILITARY SAYS HOUTHI STRIKES INJURED MORE THAN A DOZEN PEOPLE ACROSS SEVERAL CITIES, INCLUDING JEDDAH, WHERE CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN SALMAN RECENTLY VISITED. MEANTIME, THE HOUTHIS RELEASED THIS FOOTAGE, CLAIMING TO SHOW FIGHTING WITH SAUDI-BACKED FORCES IN YEMEN'S NORTH. THE U.N. ESTIMATES THAT SOME 125,000 PEOPLE IN YEMEN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE VIOLENCE, WITH MANY LIVING IN MAKESHIFT CAMPS AND TENTS.

WE FLED FROM THE WAR AND TOOK NOTHING WITH US. WE DIDN'T EVEN BRING THE CHILDREN'S CLOTHES. WE HAVE NO FLOUR, THE CHILDREN ARE HUNGRY. WE HAVE NO FOOD. AMNA: SEPARATELY, A NEW ASSESSMENT FINDS THAT THE WAR IN IRAN COST THE U.S. MORE THAN 38 BILLION DOLLARS THROUGH AUGUST 1. THE NON-PARTISAN CONGRESSIO