Senate Republican Josh Hawley targets opportunity zones tax breaks that tech giants use to build AI data centers, calling the loophole "corporate welfare."
Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who's running for his state's Senate seat, said Thursday that if elected he would not always go along with his party, comparing himself to ex-Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). CNBC’s Becky Quick asked Hogan if he saw himself “playing that same sort of a role,...
Jeffrey Clark is pointing to his removal from former President Trump’s latest indictment in the federal Jan. 6 case in a bid to keep his law license after a disciplinary board recommended it be suspended. A superseding indictment filed by special counsel Jack Smith on Monday stripped references to Clark, a former Justice Department attorney...
Two congressional Republicans asked the Pentagon on Wednesday to add the world’s biggest manufacturers of electric vehicle (EV) batteries to a list of entities subject to restrictions because of ties to the Chinese government. In the letter, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party Chair John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) called...
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, seeking to ensure that relations remain stable for whoever replaces President Biden in the White House come January. “Being able to reach the end of President Biden’s administration with the relationship on a stable basis even though we have areas...
The Army on Thursday defended the Arlington National Cemetery staffer at the center of the reported controversy involving former President Trump’s campaign staff during a wreath-laying ceremony earlier this week. An Army spokesperson said the employee was trying to enforce rules prohibiting political activities on cemetery grounds when they were pushed aside. "Consistent with the...
Former President Trump is ramping up pressure on CNN's Dana Bash ahead of a joint interview she is scheduled to conduct Thursday with Vice President Harris and Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and Democratic vice presidential candidate. "Dana Bash of CNN has a chance at greatness today," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. "If...
The promise and possibility of progress today are too often stymied by high costs, long waits and other obstacles erected by a labyrinthian permitting system.
Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced those who willingly work to repel migrants as sinners, calling out restrictive immigration laws, border militarization and rejection as tools that endanger migrants. Francis opened his weekly address — usually heavy on theology — with a call to think about both people who “are crossing seas and deserts to reach...
Nine people have now died in a listeria outbreak linked to recalled Boar’s Head deli meat, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update on Wednesday. The announcement adds six additional confirmed fatalities since the CDC announced on Aug. 8 that three people had died in connection to the outbreak. At...
Just 10 percent of Americans in a new survey say homeownership is easy to achieve, even as 89 percent see owning a home as essential or important to their vision of the future. According to a Wall Street Journal/NORC poll taken in July, U.S. adults have a difference between their wishes and their expectations on...
Yelp sued Google on Wednesday, accusing the tech giant of violating antitrust law by abusing its monopoly over search to give itself an advantage in local search services and advertising. It argues that Google has diverted traffic away from competitors, like Yelp, and toward its own “inferior” local search product. “This is a case about...
A top Chinese general on Thursday told White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan that the U.S. must stop its "collusion" with Taiwan, during a high-stakes meeting in Beijing. Gen. Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of China's Central Military Commission, told Sullivan that Taiwan "is at the very core of China’s core interests, the bedrock of...
