There were allegations aplenty at a Wednesday hearing on the federal tax charges against Hunter Biden, but what bothered U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi was the paucity of facts connecting the charges with efforts by congressional Republicans to probe the murky depths of the Biden family’s finances. Although Scarsi did not make a decision, he […]
Vice President Kamala Harris said the Biden administration is imposing new binding requirements on federal agencies’ use of artificial intelligence, intending to improve safety, transparency and oversight of new tech tools. The government-wide policy from the White House Office of Management and Budget announced on Thursday reveals the federal government’s priorities for AI governance as […]
Normally, Republicans would celebrate the fact that federal workers showed up at their office. But the employees who came to the Labor Department’s Boston office last week weren’t there to work — they were there, in person, to protest having to show up for in-person work. Members of the American Federation of Government Employees rallied […]
Federal prosecutors in New York accused former Prime Minister of Mongolia Sukhbaatar Batbold Tuesday of buying two luxury apartments in Manhattan with embezzled money. Mr. Batbold was Mongolian head of state from Oct. 29, 2009, through August 10, 2012. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York unsealed a civil forfeiture complaint […]
The “George Floyd Memorial Scholarship” has been taken to court over charges of racism. A conservative watchdog group filed a federal legal complaint against North Central University in Minnesota this week over the scholarship’s rule that only Black students need apply. North Central University’s George Floyd scholarship violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act […]
President Biden said the Baltimore bridge collapse was a “terrible accident” and there is no evidence that it was an act of terrorism. He pledged that the federal government would pay the entire cost of rebuilding the bridge and he said he expected Congress to support the spending. Mr. Biden spoke from the White House […]
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court rejected a bid Monday from former coal executive Don Blankenship, who argued that Donald Trump Jr. defamed him by calling him a “felon.” The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, left in place a lower court’s ruling in West Virginia against Blankenship, the former CEO […]
CHICAGO — Federal regulators are increasing their oversight of United Airlines, the company announced Friday, following a series of recent issues including a piece of the outer fuselage falling off one jet, an engine fire and a plane losing a tire during takeoff. United‘s vice president of corporate safety, Sasha Johnson, said the Federal Aviation […]
Mexico filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Thursday which argues that Texas SB 4 could lead to harassment, arrest, and expulsion of Mexican citizens. It could also do the same to those who simply look Latino. This is the narrative that progressives are taking in talking about SB 4. The immigration law allows Texas law enforcement […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks ago, Chair Jerome Powell suggested that the Federal Reserve was “not far” from gaining the confidence it needed that inflation was headed sustainably toward its 2% target level, which would allow it to start cutting its benchmark interest rate. It was a tantalizing suggestion, because a cut in the Fed‘s […]
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