by Davis Giangiulio | Feb 21, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Amid increased scrutiny of the actions of big tech, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the first of two cases on Tuesday that could alter how the law protects internet companies. The case, Gonzalez v. Google LLC, involves the family of an...
by Davis Giangiulio | Feb 7, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Boosted by a strong jobs report last week and declining inflation, President Joe Biden in his second State of the Union Address touted his economic plan which he says is working. Despite suffering a difficult first two years in office with the highest...
by Davis Giangiulio | Jan 26, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — The debate over raising the U.S. debt limit is poised to be one of the hottest fights to hit Washington this year, and will feature a cast of characters both widely and lesser known to investors and everyday Americans. President Joe Biden and House...
by Davis Giangiulio | Jan 19, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took his national message local on Thursday as he addressed Mayors at a panel on innovation and workforce development at the United States Conference of Mayors. Sanders, a former mayor himself of Burlington, Vermont, spoke...
by Stephanie Markowitz | Jan 12, 2023 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – Airports and airlines are attempting to recoup their losses and quell public exasperation a day after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to issue a 90-minute nationwide ground stop to air travel, scrambling schedules and grounding thousands of...
by Zachary Miller | Mar 10, 2022 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) — U.S. senators, at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, expressed bipartisan interest Thursday in ramping up domestic oil and gas production to combat soaring energy prices. The push is a boon to large...
by Zachary Miller | Mar 9, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — President Biden is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday outlining a nationwide governing approach for cryptocurrency. The measure suggests potential for clarity in a murky financial market that was designed to be difficult to regulate, but which...
by Zachary Miller | Mar 8, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Last Thursday, President Biden signed into law a bipartisan bill to bar companies from contractually forcing sexual assault and harrassment complaints into arbitration. Now, the change has reinvigorated efforts to pass similar legislation in the financial...
by Zachary Miller | Feb 17, 2022 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — A nearly year long coal miner strike in Alabama drew attention to a handful of the largest private equity and asset management companies in the world at a Senate hearing Thursday. “Just three Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street manage...
by Zachary Miller | Feb 16, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON – The federal debt ceiling has caused headaches for decades. Now, House Democrats are considering the value of doing away with it altogether. “The debt ceiling has become a political weapon used to extract concessions, or more recently, simply score...
by Zachary Miller | Feb 9, 2022 | Business, Featured
WASHINGTON — Cryptocurrencies shed more than $1 trillion in global value since November, and the space is overrun with scams. Wednesday, the regulatory agency tasked with overseeing digital assets told senators they lacked the information, resources and mandate to...
by Zachary Miller | Feb 8, 2022 | Business, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — March 2023. That’s when Kimberly Ann Naranjo told senators she was expected to die of mesothelioma. “It all happened so fast,” Naranjo, a mother of seven, told the Senate Judiciary subcommittee Tuesday. “One week I was enjoying my forever home, surrounded...
