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Feb 02 2023
News
Senator urges Apple, Google to remove TikTok from app stores
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) wrote to Google and Apple on Thursday, urging both companies to remove TikTok from their app stores.
Driving the news: In a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Bennet urges both leaders to boot TikTok immediately, calling the popular video-sharing app "an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States."
AxiosJan 08 2023
News
LIVE 1:45 PM ET: Biden Visits the Border at El Paso, Texas
President Joe Biden visits El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8 in his first trip to the southwestern border since taking office. Republicans and some Democrats who represent districts along the U.S.–Mexico border have repeatedly called on Biden to visit the border amid surging numbers of illegal immigrant crossings. They’ve also accused the administration of pursuing an “open borders” agenda by
The Epoch TimesJan 27 2023
News
Senators fight partisan headwinds in pursuit of immigration deal
When Sen. Thom Tillis returned to Washington this month from a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border with a bipartisan group of eight senators, the North Carolina Republican was quickly reminded of just how difficult it would be to craft a broad immigration agreement.
The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Freedom Caucus member Rep. Mark E. Green of Tennessee, called
Roll CallMar 09 2023
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Ukraine Hit by One of Russia’s Biggest Missile Barrages This Year
Russia fired dozens of missiles at Kyiv and other regions across Ukraine overnight, striking civilian infrastructure and the country’s defense industry in one of the biggest barrages this year as its forces continued to claw more territory in the east.
Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, said Russia had launched 81 missiles of different varieties
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 10 2023
Opinion
What we can infer from the Alaska aerial object
The White House says that the U.S. military shot down an as yet unidentified flying object over northern Alaska on Thursday evening.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the object was "the size of a small car" and lacked an array of the kind carried by the Chinese spy balloon downed over the Atlantic last weekend. The object was at an altitude of 40,000 feet as it
Tom RoganFeb 22 2023
News
New $10 Billion Program for Energy Subsidies Set for Rollout by Treasury Department
The Treasury Department is preparing to start a $10 billion program for subsidizing advanced energy projects and a new tax break for solar-and-wind projects in low-income communities.
The two programs were created last year in the climate, health and tax law known as the Inflation Reduction Act. The department has been working to lay out the details of how the law’s tax breaks will
Wall Street Journal (News)Feb 10 2023
Analysis
The War’s Violent Next Stage
For much of the winter, the war in Ukraine settled into a slow-moving but exceedingly violent fight along a jagged 600-mile-long frontline in the southeast. Now, both Ukraine and Russia are poised to go on the offensive.
Russia, wary of the growing Ukrainian arsenal of Western-supplied weapons, is moving first.
Using tens of thousands of new conscripts in the hope of overwhelming
New York Times (News)Jan 03 2023
News
Texans among U.S. House members blocking Republican leader Kevin McCarthy from speakership
WASHINGTON — Three Texas Republicans on Tuesday repeatedly rejected Kevin McCarthy’s bid for speaker, helping block the House GOP leader from securing the gavel through three rounds of voting and throwing the body into opening-day chaos not seen in a century. The House adjourned for the day to give Republicans a chance to regroup. On the first ballot, Rep. Michael Cloud and Rep.-elect Keith
The Dallas Morning NewsFeb 14 2023
News
Nikki Haley announces presidential run in new video: 'Time for a new generation'
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley announced her 2024 presidential campaign in a video Tuesday, becoming the first major Republican to challenge former President Donald Trump.
Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, was slated to hold an event Wednesday in South Carolina to make a special announcement, which was assumed to be about her 2024 presidential bid. In a
Washington ExaminerJan 06 2023
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Alaska bans the use of TikTok on state-owned devices
Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a memorandum Friday prohibiting the use of social media platform TikTok on state-owned devices. In doing so, Alaska follows in the footsteps of more than a dozen other states. Several predominantly Republican-led states have banned the Chinese-owned social media platform on publicly owned devices, citing national security concerns. Former President Donald Trump first
Anchorage Daily News