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The gvernors of Indiana and Utah signed bills last week to prohibit credit cards from tracking firearm sales information in their states.

Sens. Dick Durbin and Roger Marshall are pushing Joe Biden to weaponize the federal government against opponents of their credit card bill.

Australian Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, and Multicultural Affairs Andrew Giles on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on abuse of Australia’s visa system, which he said has enabled human trafficking and other organized criminal activities.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation Friday that prohibits credit card companies from tracking gun sales in Florida.

Visa and Mastercard have halted their plans to use a new merchant code to track gun purchases. 

Beginning in April 2023, Discover will become the first credit card issuer to track gun purchases made by their cardholders.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who decamped to Florida soon after his narrow election loss to leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the end of October, has applied for a six-month tourist visa to remain in the United States.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) proposed legislation on Wednesday that would bar payment processors from discriminating against gun retailers.

Twenty-four Republican attorneys general sent a letter to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express Tuesday warning them to drop plans to code and compile gun sales in America.

Over 110 GOP Reps. signed a letter sent to Visa, Mastercard, and American Express yesterday, asking why they flip-flopped to support recategorizing gun sales merchant codes and which gun sales they plan to flag as “suspicious.”

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) torched credit card companies’ move to track gun purchases would lead to a national registry of gun owners, in letters obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) warns that credit card companies have positioned themselves to track gun purchases and is asking the big three–Visa, Mastercard, American Express–why they are inserting themselves into Second Amendment issues.

Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), and the National Rifle Association (NRA) are warning that the credit card companies’ capitulation to Democrat pressure to recategorize gun purchases sets the state for gun sale data collection.

Mastercard praised Congress for the mid-summer passage of gun control following the announcement that major credit card companies are caving to Democrat wishes and recategorizing gun and ammo purchase monikers.

Visa caved to the demands of New York Democrats and gun control groups and will recategorize gun purchases in a way that allows them to be flagged. 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is urging Visa, American Express, and Mastercard to take action and “do their part” for gun control. 

Visa and Mastercard have reportedly suspended card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek following controversy over whether the adult video websites could be facilitating child pornography.

Several Afghan refugees living in Madagascar staged a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Antananarivo, the African island nation’s capital, on Monday to protest what they described as stalled efforts by the embassy to process their refugee visa applications, Al Jazeera reported.

One of the two illegal aliens accused of plotting a mass shooting on the Fourth of July in Richmond, Virginia, has been given a mere $15,000 bail. 

Indonesia’s government recently announced plans to develop a new “digital nomad” visa program that would allow remote workers to live and work in Indonesia tax-free for up to five years, Fortune reported on Tuesday.

Amazon has reportedly backtracked on a previous statement that it would not be accepting visa credit cards in the UK from January 19.

Novak Djokovic released a statement Wednesday in which he admitted to knowingly attending a media interview last month after testing positive for coronavirus.

Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic sparked a major controversy in Australia when he tried to enter the country to play in the upcoming Australian Open using a medical exemption for coronavirus vaccination. His request was initially granted, but his visa was revoked when he arrived at Tullamarine Airport in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Gab.com, the free speech-friendly social network founded in 2016 in response to rising censorship on Twitter, has launched its own payment processing service that it says will not discriminate based on politics or vaccination status.

E-commerce giant Amazon recently announced that it will no longer accept payments made with Visa credit cards issued in the UK, blaming the decision on high fees. Visa says that it is “very disappointed that Amazon is threatening to restrict consumer choice in the future.”

The international organization Human Rights Watch demanded in a statement on Sunday that sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics certify that and explain how their participation in the event – held in a country currently committing genocide – does not involve or enable gross human rights atrocities.

Prince Harry’s eco tourism firm Travalyst announced Thursday it is teaming up with tech giant Google to promote itself to the world.

The CEO of Open Doors USA, a human rights organization that focuses on lending aid to persecuted Christians around the world, urged corporate sponsors of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics to reconsider their ties to the event.

Simone Biles’ sponsors, including Athleta and Visa, are lauding her decision to put her mental health first and withdraw from the gymnastics team competition during the Olympics.

Over 30 women sued Pornhub Thursday and accused the site of violating federal sex trafficking laws, distributing child porn, racketeering, and additional crimes.

China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that visa applications will be “streamlined” for foreign visitors who have been inoculated with vaccines produced in China.

Pornhub announced Sunday it suspended all videos not uploaded by verified users as part of a recent policy implementation.

Mastercard and Visa announced they are investigating allegations made in a New York Times column that Pornhub is posting videos that portray child abuse on its adult website.

Reps. Jordan and Reschenthaler are requesting the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog, review to what extent the Chinese Communist Party is abusing the U.S.’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.

The Philippine government on Friday announced that U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have been banned from visiting the country due to “interfering with our processes as a sovereign state,” as Philippine presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo put it. More specifically, Durbin and Leahy have been involved in the case of incarcerated Philippine Sen. Leila de Lima, who they regard as a political prisoner.

Credit card giant Visa is warning its cardholders that cyber criminals are targeting gas pumps in order to steal personal credit card data.