United States oil companies spent roughly $9.4 million in lobbying efforts in California in the first quarter of 2023, including on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Senate Bill X 1-2 aimed at limiting oil majors’ windfall profits.
A bill intended to hold Big Tech accountable for hosting child sexual abuse materials advanced to the Senate floor, giving it a new shot at passage and enactment.
A bipartisan group of congressmen is asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to force the popular clothing store Shein to prove that it does not use forced Uyghur labor in the making of its products before it is allowed to launch an initial public offering.
Russia will most likely not be able to mount a “significant offensive operation this year” due to both munitions and manpower shortfalls, according to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) passed a debt ceiling bill that raises the limit and cuts spending, a feat top Democrats and officials within the White House reportedly did not think McCarthy could pull off.
The first leg of May's three Social Security payments, worth up to $4,555, will be sent out to retirees in just under a week, according to the Social Security Administration's schedule.
Jurors found four members of the far-right Proud Boys guilty of seditious conspiracy, ongoing since December. The trial involves leader Enrique Tarrio and four members who were charged with seditious conspiracy and other felony counts for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot.
