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SEC approves first bitcoin investment funds after false start

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved nearly a dozen exchange-traded funds (ETFs) holding bitcoin on Wednesday, the first time the agency has permitted the trading of funds directly invested in a cryptocurrency. The SEC approved 11 spot bitcoin ETFs from several major companies, including BlackRock, Fidelity and Grayscale Investments, as it faced down a...

House GOP advances Hunter Biden contempt resolution after fiery hearing

Two House panels on Wednesday separately voted to advance a contempt of Congress resolution against Hunter Biden, teeing up a full House vote and the potential for criminal charges for the president’s son. The votes by the Oversight and Judiciary committees came hours after Biden made a surprise appearance in the Oversight markup, teeing up a...

Chris Christie drops out of 2024 race

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is ending his 2024 bid for the White House just days before the Iowa caucus, he announced Wednesday. "It’s clear to me tonight that there isn’t a path for me to win the nomination," Christie told the audience at a town hall in Windham, N.H. The surprise move...

Glassdoor names the best places to work for 2024

Glassdoor has released its list of the best places to work heading into 2024, with Bain & Company, NVIDIA and ServiceNow coming in the top three spots respectively as the best employers, as evaluated by employees. Glassdoor’s top 100 list of big employers, characterized by more than 1,000 employees, features the technology industry prominently, as...

The case for federally funded AI research  

Fundamentally, what we need from government on AI is not prescriptive legislation—we are simply too early in the development of AI for that to be productive. Instead, we need insight into the deep questions AI poses for all of us.

Vance bashes Ohio GOP Senate candidate who accused him of ‘insider politics’

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) slammed Ohio GOP Senate candidate Frank LaRose for comments he purportedly made denouncing Vance’s endorsement of one of LaRose’s primary opponents.  Vance’s criticism of LaRose, Ohio’s secretary of state, came after the conservative political news website Human Events reported on a leaked recording in which a voice described as LaRose accuses...

UAW campaign to organize Southeast carmakers gets into gear

Welcome to The Hill's Sustainability newsletter {beacon} Sustainability Sustainability   The Big Story UAW campaign to organize Southeast carmakers gets into gear Workers at a second Southeastern automobile manufacturing plant have announced a public campaign to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) union. © AP Photo/Sean Rayford As of Wednesday morning, 30 percent of workers at...

FDA allows imports of syphilis drug from France amid nationwide shortage

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will temporarily allow the importation of a form of penicillin used to treat syphilis amid a nationwide shortage of the drug.  The agency said it is working with French company Laboratoires Delbert to import benzathine penicillin G, according to a letter posted on its website. Benzathine penicillin G...

Chris Christie drops out of 2024 race, ending Republican presidential campaign

Former two-term New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was making his second run for the Republican presidential nomination, has suspended his campaign, dropping out of the 2024 White House race

Temporary funding on the table as Congress scrambles to find path forward to fund government

It seems increasingly probable that a short-term funding solution passed by Congress will be needed to prevent a government shutdown next week.

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