Biden Celebrates The Anniversary Of The Inflation Reduction Act As He Tries To Promote “Bidenomics”

President Joe Biden celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act at a White House event on Wednesday. The president stood alongside people who have been aided by the law, the Associated Press reports. Biden proclaimed that his administration is “turning things around” for people in the U.S., investing in more clean energy jobs…

ByFinance Capitol StaffAugust 22, 2023

International Politics

Tiktok Says US Threatens Ban If Chinese Owners Don’t Sell Stakes

WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) - The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok's Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible U.S. ban, the company told Reuters on Wednesday. The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by U.S. officials and legislators who have raised fears…

ByDavid Shepardson, ReutersMarch 14, 2023

Politics

TikTok CEO Seeks To Reassure On EU Rules On Privacy, Child Safety

BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew on a visit to Brussels on Tuesday sought to reassure the European Union the app would respect the bloc's increasingly stringent tech rules and commitments to privacy and child safety. The short-video app, which is owned by Chinese technology conglomerate ByteDance, has for the last three…

ByReutersJanuary 12, 2023

Politics

Biden Hits Russia’s Wagner Group With Tough New Export Curbs

WASHINGTON, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled new curbs on technology exports to Russia's Wagner military group, in a bid to further choke off supplies to the contractor over its role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Wagner group, which was added to a trade blacklist in 2017 after Russia annexed Ukraine's…

ByReutersDecember 22, 2022

Politics

U.S. Supreme Court Lets California Ban Flavored Tobacco Products

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for California to enforce a voter-approved ban in America's most-populous state on flavored tobacco products, rejecting R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's bid to block it on the grounds that the policy conflicted with federal law. The justices denied the emergency request by R.J. Reynolds, a…

ByReutersDecember 19, 2022

Politics

Mexico Says It Is Consulting With Peru Over Castillo Asylum Request

MEXICO CITY, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Mexico has started consultations with Peruvian authorities regarding former President Pedro Castillo's request to seek asylum in the country, Mexico's foreign minister said on Twitter on Thursday. Mexico's ambassador to Peru met with Castillo where he is being detained, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said. Castillo was arrested after attempting…

ByReutersDecember 8, 2022

Politics

U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee Chairman Says Panel To Make Criminal Referrals

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Tuesday that the panel had decided to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice. "Yes," Representative Bennie Thompson told reporters when asked about the topic. He did not…

ByReutersDecember 6, 2022

Politics

Democratic Governors Defeat Election Deniers In U.S. Midterm Elections

Nov 9 (Reuters) - Democratic governors in several presidential battleground states narrowly defended their seats in Tuesday's U.S. midterm elections, defeating Republican challengers who had embraced former President Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Though gubernatorial races typically get less attention than the battle for control of Congress, they carried…

ByReutersNovember 9, 2022

Politics

Fort Bend Reaches Nearly 40,000 Cast Ballots On Early Voting

Early voting for the 2022 November general election opened Monday in Fort Bend County. According to the Fort Bend Star, up until the end of October 38,302 voters had cast ballots in person and by mail, and 32,688 ballots were cast at the polls in the county. It is important to mention that Fort Bend…

ByReutersOctober 31, 2022

Politics

Fort Bend Is Demanding a Consulting Firm To Repay $25,000 To The County.

Fort Bend County is demanding Next Wave Strategies, a consulting firm hired for $345,000 to create a communication plan during the COVID-19 crisis. The county wants the firm to repay nearly $25,000 dollars, arguing that the outreach strategy they were hired to do didn’t accomplish its goal, according to the Fort Bend Herald. New Wave…

ByFinance Capitol StaffOctober 19, 2022

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