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| Nov 8, 2026 | Democrats Seize Congress; Musk's Empire Reels; Oil Plunges | Democrats swept the 2026 midterms, seizing control of both the Senate and House. This decisive victory served as a stinging rebuke to President Trump. Historic flips in key states, like Texas, reshaped the political landscape. Elon Musk, a ... |
| Nov 4, 2026 | Google responds to political backlash over removing search from schools that ban AI | Politicians including Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani criticized Google following reports that the company would restrict search at schools that ban AI.
Google responded to the outrage, saying that Gemini, G... |
| Nov 3, 2026 | Midterm Election Day recap: Democrats flip Senate and House in stunning victory | This was CNBC’s live coverage of Election Day. Follow day two of 2026 midterm election results here.
Democrats’ epic night led to projected victories in the House and Senate, with a commanding victory in at least the House. The party also f... |
| Nov 2, 2026 | Defense, healthcare, crypto and AI: How the midterm election could affect stocks | The midterm election could reshape the outlook for companies heavily exposed to Washington, especially in defense, healthcare, crypto and artificial intelligence.
Democratic control of either chamber could bring more investigations and over... |
| Oct 22, 2026 | Trump asked Musk to lift Starlink slowdown, WSJ reports | President Donald Trump asked Elon Musk to ease restrictions he had imposed on the military-grade version of SpaceX’s Starlink system in Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Starshield system, which Ukraine depends on in its war agains... |
| Oct 14, 2026 | Shaheen, Bipartisan Senators Call on Trump to Rescind Russian Diesel Deal and Implement Sanctions Authorized by Congress Last Month on Enablers of Putin’s War Against Ukraine | WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Alan Armstrong (R-OK), Sheldon White... |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Blumenthal Statement on Release of Annual Veteran Suicide Report | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today issued a statement following the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) release of its National Veterans Suicide Prevention annual report, ... |
| Sep 25, 2026 | Blumenthal & Committee Minority Back Up House Subpoenas, Demand Answers from Larry Ellison on Ballooning Costs of Oracle's VA Electronic Health Record Contract | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Minority Committee members are demanding immediate answers and comprehensive documentation from Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and... |
| Sep 15, 2026 | Attorney General Bonta Secures Supreme Court Victory Blocking Trump Administration’s Attempt to Restrict Mail Voting | Eligible voters urged to make their voices heard this November
OAKLAND — Co-leading a coalition of 24 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision... |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Attorney General Bonta Secures Another Win as First Circuit Rejects Trump Administration’s Latest Attempt to Disrupt Mail Voting | OAKLAND — Co-leading a coalition of 24 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today secured another victory for voters after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the Trump... |
| Sep 4, 2026 | Attorney General Bonta Secures Extended Block on Trump Administration’s Attempt to Restrict Mail Voting | OAKLAND — Co-leading a coalition of 24 attorneys general and the Governor of Pennsylvania, California Attorney General Rob Bonta today issued a statement in response to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granting the ... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | FAA Enforced Maximum Boeing Fine; Law Required No Announcement When Boeing Paid | By Joshua Mitchell
Published: Sep 03 2026, 10:38 AM EDT
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| Sep 2, 2026 | Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its Own Staff Call The Process “A Shit Show.” | Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit. There is astoundingly little evidence of significant voter frau... |
| Sep 1, 2026 | USPS Mail Ballot Portal’s Zero-Tolerance Scan Rule Ignores Its Own Inspector General’s Error Data | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Sep 01 2026, 11:37 AM EDT
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| Aug 20, 2026 | Blumenthal, Warren & Shaheen Demand Answers from Hegseth Following Leadership Shake-Up at Stars and Stripes | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), senior members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, are demanding answers from the Department of D... |
| Aug 7, 2026 | Russia sanctions bill honoring Lindsey Graham breezes through Senate, heads to House | The Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation that would impose sanctions on buyers of Russian oil and top Russian leaders.
The bill is named in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had just returned from visiting Ukraine whe... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Trump says sanctions bill should include tariffs on Iran, despite ‘trivial’ trade with U.S. | President Donald Trump said Congress should strengthen a sanctions bill against Russia and Iran by adding tariffs on Tehran.
The U.S. imports hardly any goods from Iran, making his remark “entirely symbolic,” a trade expert told CNBC.
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| Jul 29, 2026 | Bipartisan Group of Senators Announce Agreement to Move Forward on Major Sanctions Legislation | WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Darline Graham (R-S.C.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) annou... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | Graham Act Nears Senate Vote as OFAC, UK, and EU Hit Russia’s War Supply Chain | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Jul 21 2026, 6:44 PM EDT
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Anti-Data-Center Protests Hit 125 Cities in First National Mobilization | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Jul 18 2026, 7:15 PM EDT
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| Jul 17, 2026 | Risch, Graham, Blumenthal Lead 60+ Senators in Announcing Agreement on Legislation to Hold Purchasers of Russian Oil Accountable | WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Darline Graham (R-S.C.), and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) led 60+ members of the Senate in announcing the text of an agreement ne... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Shaheen Joins Blumenthal and Darline Graham in Introducing Legislation with 60+ Cosponsors to Hold Purchasers of Russian Oil Accountable | WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, joined Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Darline Graham (R-SC) and more than 60 members of the Senate in introducing the Sen... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online | Within the next week, Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sprawling package of legislation that seeks to control Americans’ web browsing and private messaging. The package includes a revised version of the Kids Online Safety Ac... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Algae Returns Days After $14M Renovation | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jun 18 2026, 17:27 PM EDT
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| Jun 18, 2026 | Republicans Block Blumenthal's Request for Passage of Major Richard Star Act with Defense Pay-For | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, Senate Republicans blocked a unanimous consent request by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, to pass the Major Richard Star Act. Blumenthal’s proposa... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Blumenthal Calls on VA to Lower Burden of Proof in the Claims Process for Survivors of Military Sexual Trauma | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recently called on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to allow survivors of military sexual trauma (MST) to use non-military evidence when... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Senate Republicans Obstruct the Major Richard Star Act for Combat-Injured Veterans | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Senate Republicans today blocked two attempts from U.S Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ranking Member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, to advance the Major Richard Star Act—bipartisan legislation to deliver... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Blumenthal Slams Republican Package Slashing Disabled Veterans' Benefits | [WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Today, Republicans unveiled a nearly 600-page veterans bill that includes a provision to fund the Major Richard Star Act by slashing benefits for other disabled veterans. Republicans’ proposal, S. 4744 - Take Care of Am... |
| May 12, 2026 | Trump wants gas tax relief. But slim driver savings could strain a key federal fund | President Donald Trump and congressional lawmakers have floated a federal gas tax suspension to temporarily lower prices at the pump.
Gas prices are up 50% since the Iran war began on Feb. 28. The national average for a gallon of gas is $4.... |
| May 12, 2026 | What a US gas tax suspension could mean for drivers and the prices they see at the pump | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
NEW YORK (AP) — As steep fuel prices strain household budgets during the war with Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump wants to suspend his government’s tax on gasoline.
It’... |
| May 11, 2026 | Is federal legislation needed to regulate prediction markets? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Online prediction markets, like Kalshi and Polymarket, have captured the nation’s attention with high-profile claims of wrongdoing.
The markets allow users to vote on everything from sports to news... |
| May 11, 2026 | Trump says he’ll move to suspend federal gasoline tax. He can’t do it on his own | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he will move to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war.
The p... |
| Mar 27, 2026 | As fuel prices rise, US lawmakers push to suspend the federal gas tax | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW DALY
WASHINGTON (AP) — As the war in Iran pushes U.S. gas prices toward $4 a gallon nationally, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax in the latest attempt to tr... |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Mullin Confronts Homeland Security's Deep-Seated Crises | Markwayne Mullin stands poised to lead the Department of Homeland Security. He inherits a department beset by severe challenges. Immigration enforcement faces public backlash. A critical funding battle paralyzes DHS operations. FEMA grapple... |
| Mar 18, 2026 | Testy Mullin confirmation hearing: DHS nominee Mullin says he would require judicial warrants to enter homes, businesses | The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday held a confirmation hearing for Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
President Donald Trump earlier this month fired Homela... |
| Mar 10, 2026 | Trump Kicks Kristi Noem To The Curb For Being Exactly The Sort Of Person Trump Wanted Her To Be | I come here to celebrate the apparently permanent sidelining of former DHS head, Kristi Noem. I know the adage usually does some hedging before damning with faint praise, but I’m not interested in praise, faint or otherwise, much less prete... |
| Feb 3, 2026 | Southwest Airlines Redefines Flight: Assigned Seats, Bag Fees Drive Record Profits | Southwest Airlines, long an industry outlier, has transformed its core business model. The airline ended 54 years of open seating, now assigning specific seats. It also introduced baggage fees, mirroring competitors. These strategic shifts,... |
| Jan 28, 2026 | Southwest ends open seating after 54 years. Here’s what the last flight was like | Southwest Airlines ended its open-seating policy after 54 years and has started assigning seats to passengers.
The airline’s executives say customers sought the change and touted the financial benefits to investors.
CNBC flew on the last op... |
| Jan 3, 2026 | Guns marketed for personal safety fuel public health crisis in Black communities | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Fred Clasen-Kelly and Daniel Chang, KFF Health News
PHILADELPHIA — Leon Harris, 35, is intimately familiar with the devastation guns can inflict. Robbers shot him in the back nearly two decades ... |
| Dec 24, 2025 | DOJ says more than 1 million potential Epstein files newly uncovered | The Department of Justice on Wednesday said they were reviewing more than one million additional files potentially related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The Trump administration missed the Dec. 19 deadline set by the Epstein Files Transparency Act to... |
| Nov 2, 2025 | As sports betting explodes, states try to set limits to stop gambling addiction | By Karen Brown, New England Public Media, KFF Health News
It isn’t easy to promote moderation and financial discipline from the bowels of a casino. Related Articles
FDA’s top drug regulator resigns after federal officials probe ‘serious con... |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Senate Democrats propose increasing VA, Social Security benefits by $200 a month for six months | The Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment for 2026.
Some Democratic Senators say they believe the increase won’t be enough to help beneficiaries cope with rising costs.
On Thursday, a group of lawmakers w... |
| Aug 8, 2025 | DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater: Wasted $21.7 Billion While Destroying Life-Saving Programs Based On Conspiracy Theories | We’ve talked plenty about how Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) was always more about performative cruelty than actual efficiency. But a new Senate report reveals just how spectacularly DOGE failed at its supposed cor... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Senate pushes veteran partial claim option after House passage | Following the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives that would establish a new partial claim option for veteran mortgage borrowers, the Senate is taking up a bipartisan bill with the same ultimate aim.
The Veterans Housing Stabi... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | National Politics | What US lawmakers are saying about the White House clash between Trump and Zelenskyy | “What I saw in the Oval office was disrespectful and I don’t know if we can ever do business with Zelenskyy again.”
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO:
“Thank you @POTUS for standing up for America in a way that no President has ever had the co... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | The Hegseth Hearing: A Crucible of Controversy and Combat Readiness | The confirmation hearing of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense was a battleground of ideas, values, and personal history. As he faced the Senate Armed Services Committee, the stakes were high. The Pentagon, a fortress of American militar... |
| Jan 15, 2025 | National Politics | Trump’s outsider Cabinet picks are rapidly gaining support for confirmation | A long haul for some of Trump’s picks
To be sure, Trump’s more controversial choices of Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have yet to come before senators for public questioning. Once they do, they face a long haul ahead in w... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | National Politics | What to know from Pete Hegseth’s fiery confirmation hearing | Here are some takeaways from Hegseth’s confirmation hearing:A ‘warrior culture’ at the Pentagon
Hegseth told senators that Trump’s primary charge to him was “to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense” and that “he wants... |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Blumenthal So Eager To Bring Back KOSA, He Admits Its Purpose Is Censorship | Senator Richard Blumenthal is at it again. The long-time Connecticut Senator, who never met an internet regulation he didn’t like, is eager to reintroduce his Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) — a bill that would trample all over the First Amen... |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Trump’s Cabinet Picks: A High-Stakes Game of Political Poker | In the political arena, the stakes are high, and the players are bold. Donald Trump, the president-elect, has dealt a hand that could reshape the GOP landscape. His recent nominations, particularly of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and Mar... |
| Nov 14, 2024 | National Politics | Trump issues early challenge to GOP Senate with defiant nominations | Two months before Trump even takes office, he is already challenging those congressional Republicans to defy him as he nominates potentially controversial figures to his Cabinet — including Gaetz, former Democratic House Rep. Tulsi Gabbard ... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | Boeing CEO Faces Congressional Grilling Amid Mounting Whistleblower Allegations | The stage is set for a high-stakes showdown as Boeing CEO David Calhoun braces himself for a relentless grilling from Congress. This pivotal moment marks Calhoun's first appearance before lawmakers since a harrowing incident involving ... |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Boeing CEO to face congressional grilling as new whistleblower claims emerge | Boeing CEO David Calhoun is slated to face a Congressional grilling on Tuesday in his first appearance before lawmakers since a panel blew out of a 737 Max during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. Calhoun will tell the Senate investigat... |
| May 22, 2024 | Patent reform could be the next big move to help bring down drug prices | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
After pitched battles over Medicare drug price negotiations, Congress may be pivoting to more bipartisan ground: overhaul of the patent system that allows brand-name drugs to delay competition for yea... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | New Research Reveals 78% of Americans Believe Social Media Companies Hold Too Much Political Power | Inno Flores, Tech Times 30 April 2024, 12:04 am
A recent Pew survey reveals that most Americans believe social media companies wield excessive political influence.
This sentiment has increased by 6% since the previous presidential election ... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Amazon and Target Will Stop Sales of Weighted Baby Sleep Sacks and Weighted Baby Swaddles Due to Safety Concerns | The retailers’ news comes as a U.S. senator calls for a federal investigation into Dreamland Baby and Nested Bean
WASHINGTON, DC – Consumer Reports (CR) commended retailers including Amazon, Target, and Babylist for deciding they will no lo... |
| Apr 13, 2024 | Boeing's Safety Crisis Deepens: Whistleblower Allegations and DOJ Scrutiny | Boeing's reputation is on the line as the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration investigates whistleblower claims of safety and quality concerns in the production of the company's 787 and 777 jets. The aerospace giant is facing a f... |
| Apr 13, 2024 | Boeing Safety Concerns: Whistleblower Exposes Structural Flaws | A whistleblower has come forward with alarming allegations about safety lapses in Boeing's 777 and 787 wide-body jets, raising concerns about potential structural failures that could jeopardize the safety of over 1,400 planes. The whis... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million billing errors after entering repayment, a new report from 4 Democratic lawmakers says | Economy Student-loan borrowers faced 3.9 million billing errors after entering repayment, a new report from 4 Democratic lawmakers says
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| Apr 10, 2024 | Boeing hit with whistleblower allegations, adding to safety concerns | Aerospace & DefenseBoeing hit with whistleblower allegations, adding to safety concerns
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| Apr 6, 2024 | Editorials | Views from the nation’s press | The Las Vegas Review-Journal on how for the sports betting industry, heavy hand of Congress looms:
The Shohei Ohtani gambling controversy is the latest in a recent spate of incidents involving professional or college sports leagues and wage... |
| Feb 21, 2024 | Prominent MAGA Supporter Is Worried New KOSA Won’t Suppress Enough LGBTQ Speech | By now you know that Senator Richard Blumenthal has released a new version of KOSA, the misleadingly named Kids Online Safety Act, that he pretends fixes all the problems. It doesn’t. It still represents a real threat to speech online, and ... |
| Feb 20, 2024 | Don’t Fall For The Latest Changes To The Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act | The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version last week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Senator Blumenthal Pretends To Fix KOSA; It’s A Lie | As lots of folks are reporting, Senator Richard Blumenthal, this morning, released an updated version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). He and co-author Senator Marsha Blackburn are also crowing how they’ve now increased the list of co-... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | At Senate AI hearing, news executives fight against “fair use” claims for AI training data | Enlarge / Danielle Coffey, president and CEO of News Media Alliance; Professor Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism; Curtis LeGeyt, president and CEO of National Association of Broadcasters; and Roger Lynch, CEO of Condé Nast, ar... |
| Nov 3, 2023 | Forget ChatGPT, why Llama and open source AI win 2023 | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Hear from top industry leaders on Nov 15. Reserve your free pass
Could a furry camelid take the 2023 crown for the biggest AI story of the year? ... |
| Sep 14, 2023 | Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy | Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrive to the Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023.
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| Jul 29, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Mary Ann Paliani: Is generative AI a ticking time bomb? | By Mary Ann Paliani
The hearing on AI by the Senate’s Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law opened with a recorded speech by its chair, Sen. Richard Blumenthal. The voice in the recording sounded like the senator’s, and ... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | USDA aims to boost accuracy of antibiotic-free, ‘humane’ meat labeling | Dive Brief:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a new effort to strengthen the substantiation on claims like “grass-fed”, “free-range” and “raised without antibiotics” that appear on meat and poultry product labels.
The effort came... |
| Jun 6, 2023 | Senators send letter questioning Mark Zuckerberg over Meta’s LLaMA leak | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Two U.S. Senators sent a letter today to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that questions the leak of Meta’... |
| May 16, 2023 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is ready to tell Congress that the ChatGPT-led AI era he's ushered in needs rules — before it's too late | Sam Altman is ready to tell Congress that his AI invention ChatGPT needs to follow some rules.
The OpenAI CEO is due to appear before Congress on Tuesday as concerns grow over AI risks.
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| May 8, 2023 | Tesla: US Senators Call Out Elon Musk for Using Arbitration on Employees and Customer Complaints Alike | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 08 May 2023, 08:05 pm
US senators have taken it to their hands to call out the chief executive of one of the most famous electric vehicle companies in the world, Tesla, for their resorting to "arbitration cla... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Congress sat back and let trucks become heavier, taller, and deadlier. Now pedestrian fatalities are at a 40-year high. | Sign up for notifications from Insider! Stay up to date with what you want to know.
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| Feb 7, 2023 | Biden to address children’s online safety at State of the Union | President Joe Biden will address the nation on Tuesday evening in the second State of the Union address of his term. Per a release from the White House, the president is expected to weigh in on children’s online safety issues, as well as da... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Live Nation president apologizes to Taylor Swift and her fans for ticketing fiasco and says the industry is still competitive | Taylor Swift performs at iHeartRadio's Wango Tango in 2019. Rich Fury/Getty Images for iHeartMedia
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Tuesday on ticketing competition and consumer protection.
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| Dec 30, 2022 | Big Tech giving European consumers what they deny Americans | “Tech companies have built a perfect record so far in blocking major legislation in Congress,” The Wall Street Journal observed as the final effort to pass tech-related regulation failed in the closing days of the 117th Congress. However, t... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Why the Taylor Swift debacle could lead to renewed scrutiny of the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger | Taylor Swift performs at the 2022 Nashville Songwriter Awards. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images
Lawmakers and Swifties are calling for the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger to be reexamined.
The Department of Justice was reportedly investigating the ... |
| Dec 20, 2022 | It's not just Taylor Swift. Musicians describe the 'demented struggle' of touring in a shrinking industry where one giant company sells the tickets for most major venues. | Musicians, like workers across the world, were dealing with worsening conditions pre-pandemic.
COVID exacerbated this: smaller venues closed, incomes fell into peril, and pent-up demand grew.
With Taylor Swift shining a light on Ticketmaste... |
| Nov 28, 2022 | Civil Society Warns Against the 'Kids Online Safety Act' | Will it Pose Further Danger to Youth? | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 28 November 2022, 12:11 pm
In a letter to legislators on Monday, Nov. 28, several civil society organizations voiced concerns about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).
They said the effort of enacting a measure... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | Democratic incumbent Sen. Richard Blumenthal faces off against Trump-endorsed Republican Leora Levy in Connecticut's US Senate election | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo; Jessica Hill/AP Photo; Insider
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| Jun 2, 2022 | U.S. senators press U.S. airlines, USDOT on flight cancellations | June 2, 202210:31 PM UTCLast Updated ago
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| Apr 13, 2022 | Meta looks to open the doors on a metaverse marketplace | The news: Meta is looking to charge digital creators fees of up to 47.5% to sell virtual items in its Horizon Worlds metaverse, per Insider.
Here’s how it works: Meta announced in a blog post Monday that it has started testing virtual sales... |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Tim Cook hit out at the antitrust regulators trying to crack open Apple's App Store | Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at a privacy conference on Tuesday about potential new antitrust laws.
The laws may force Apple to let users download apps from places other than the App Store, Cook said.
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| Feb 17, 2022 | Powerful pack of senators pushes DOJ for a criminal probe of Sacklers' role in opioid epidemic | Merrick Garland
In the ongoing saga of events revolving around Purdue Pharma, OxyContin and the Sackler family, there were quite a few people who thought that the Sackler family should be held more accountable. And now, a powerful group of ... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | 86% of Developers Want Legislation to Open App Stores | With the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) making its way through the Senate, at least 86% of developers are in favor of app marketplace legislation.
The OAMA is bipartisan legislation aimed at Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. The legis... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Apple App Store devs earned $60B in 2021 despite growing antitrust scrutiny | The news: Apple reported that it has paid out more than $260 billion to app developers since its App Store opened in 2008. Apple’s developers were paid at least $60 billion in 2021.
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| Nov 24, 2021 | Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate on teen mental heath | Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri will testify before the Senate for the first time as part of a series of hearings about online safety for children and teens. Per The New York Times, Mosseri’s hearing will take place on December 6.
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| Oct 6, 2021 | Цукерберг отрицает обвинения экс-сотрудницы в том, что Facebook ставит выгоду выше благополучия пользователей | Глава Facebook Марк Цукерберг отрицает обвинения бывшего менеджера по продукту Фрэнсис Хауген в том, что компания не борется с «негативным» контентом в угоду прибыли. По словам Цукерберга, обвинения Хауген «крайне нелогичны» и противоречат ... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | Elon Musk’s problematic plan for “full self-driving” Teslas | More advanced autonomous driving is coming to cities across America. Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised Tesla owners people who have good driving records would soon be able to request access to the beta version of the carmaker’s “Full ... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Facebook knows Instagram harms teens. Now, its plan to open the app to kids looks worse than ever | Facebook is in the hot seat again.
The Wall Street Journal published a powerful multi-part series on the company this week, drawing from internal documents on everything from the company’s secretive practice of whitelisting celebrities to i... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | Lawmakers are going after Facebook's development of Instagram for kids, after a report showed it knew the social media app is toxic for teen girls | Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are calling on Facebook to stop making Instagram for Kids.
They're incensed by an investigation that showed Facebook knew Instagram usage is harming teenage girls.
Instagram for Kids has receive... |
| Sep 16, 2021 | It’s getting harder for people to believe that Facebook is a net good for society | At this point, it isn’t exactly surprising that social media platforms like Facebook can have negative effects on society. For years, journalists, politicians, social scientists — and even biologists and ecologists — have been raising conce... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Elon Musk admits Tesla’s new self-driving software ‘not great’ | More On: tesla
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| Aug 24, 2021 | Elon Musk admits Tesla’s new self-driving software ‘not great’ | More On: tesla
Elon Musk takes his final $37.5M home off the market 3 months after listing it Tesla opens store on tribal land, dodges sales restrictions Louisiana man caught on camera faking being hit by Tesla NHTSA records ‘auto-pilot’ cr... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | The way you download and pay for apps may be about to radically change | Two bipartisan bills aimed at loosening Apple and Google's grip on the app store market are floating through Congress.
They could let you download apps from places outside Apple and Google stores, called sideloading.
Google already let... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Two senators urge the FTC to investigate Tesla over ‘Full Self-Driving’ statements | Two Democratic senators have asked the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Tesla’s statements about the autonomous capabilities of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems. The senators, Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and R... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Senators say Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ claims are misleading, call for FTC probe | More On: tesla
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| Aug 18, 2021 | Two senators are calling on the FTC to investigate Tesla’s ‘deceptive and unfair’ claims about Autopilot and Full Self-Driving software | New Autopilot features are demonstrated in a Tesla Model S during a Tesla event in Palo Alto, California Thomson Reuters
Sens. Blumenthal and Markey have asked the FTC to investigate Tesla over its Autopilot claims.
The company’s self-drivi... |
| Aug 18, 2021 | Senators say Tesla’s ‘self-driving’ claims are misleading, call for FTC probe | More On: tesla
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