Congressional leaders said Tuesday morning that they had reached an agreement on the final package of spending bills to fund the federal government through the fall, although it was unclear whether they could pass it in time to avert a brief partial shutdown over the weekend. Republicans in the House of Representatives, Democrats in the…
TikTok creators gather before a press conference to express their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” that calls for a crackdown in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, United States, March 12, 2024 against TikTok is waiting. Craig Hudson | Reuters White House national security adviser John…
The House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would require Chinese tech giant ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a virtual ban on the popular social video app in the United States The measure passed with an overwhelming majority of 352 votes to 65 and with one voting member present. The legislation, called…
House Democrats passed a bill Wednesday that would force Chinese internet company ByteDance to sell its wildly popular social media app TikTok. The vote was the latest development in a years-long cold war between the United States and China over who controls valuable technologies from computer chips to artificial intelligence. Lawmakers and the White House…
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2024. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters President Joe Biden signed a $460 billion spending bill Saturday, averting a partial government shutdown that would have taken…
The Senate on Friday gave final approval to a $460 billion bill to fund about half of the federal government through the fall, sending the bill to President Biden, who had just hours left to call for a partial shutdown to avert. The lopsided 75-22 vote cemented a solution that resolved at least part of…
A month after the Supreme Court struck down abortion rights, Democrats, who then controlled the House of Representatives, pushed through a bill that would ensure access to contraceptives nationwide. All but eight Republicans opposed it. The vote two years ago to reject a law that would protect the right to buy and use contraceptives without…
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, is traveling to Ukraine on Friday to visit to show American solidarity with a Democratic ally under attack by Russia and to increase pressure on Republicans to increase their opposition to additional U.S. to give up help. The trip, Schumer’s first official trip to Ukraine, comes at a critical…
Anti-Kremlin activist Bill Browder said he believes Alexei Navalny’s death was intended as a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political opponents ahead of next month’s election. Dissident Navalny, who died on Friday, was serving a 19-year prison sentence on charges of extremism in Russia, which he vehemently denied. World leaders reacted to the death…
