A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are slated to meet with the CEOs of Apple, Disney and Microsoft in California this week to discuss challenges and opportunities for American businesses that operate in China, CBS News has learned. The House members attending the meetings are part of the Select Committee …
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A Manhattan grand jury investigating allegations against former President Donald Trump is expected to meet Thursday to consider evidence in a different case, not Trump’s, according to two sources familiar with the matter. That would suggest a decision on possible charges against Trump is unlikely before next week. The 23 …
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Washington — The Justice Department is investigating TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, for possible spying on U.S. citizens, including journalists, CBS News has confirmed. News of the probe comes as U.S. lawmakers have ramped up calls for action against the widely popular social media app over ByteDance’s ties to China …
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Washington — The Democratic leaders in the House and Senate are urging top executives at Fox Corp. and Fox News to direct the network’s hosts to stop pushing baseless claims and “grave propaganda” about the 2020 presidential election, warning that continuing to spread these narratives is harmful to the nation. …
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Washington — The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee is seeking information from the FBI about Charles McGonigal, the former top counterintelligence official in the bureau’s New York field office who was charged last week with violating U.S. sanctions on Russia and other related offenses. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, and …
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Former Vice President Mike Pence said he takes “full responsibility” for the existence of classified documents in his Indiana home, speaking publicly for the first time since those documents were publicly disclosed earlier this week. CNN first reported, and Pence’s team quickly confirmed, that documents with classification markings were found …
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Washington — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told congressional leaders that the U.S. has hit the limit on the amount of debt it can issue to fulfill its obligations, initiating “extraordinary measures” that will allow the country to avoid a catastrophic default for at least the next few months. “[T]he period …
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a controversial executive order the day she was inaugurated as governor of Arkansas, issuing an order banning “Latinx” from government documents and calling the gender-neutral term “insensitive.” The order, which she says was issued “to respect the Latino community,” says that “ethnically insensitive and pejorative language,” …
Read More »Washington — The new year brings with it a new Congress that is set to convene Tuesday, kicking off two years of divided government and resistance for President Biden from a GOP-controlled House intent on thwarting his agenda. The House and Senate will meet Tuesday at noon to mark the …
Read More »RANCHO CUCAMONGA — The November elections saw Californians continue to embrace progressive leadership but voters in one of the state’s most populous counties are so frustrated with this political direction that they voted to consider seceding and forming their own state. An advisory ballot proposal approved in San Bernardino County …
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