DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison has said he will fulfill his commitment to the White House, but some current and former DNC officials feel that he has found himself in a difficult situation.
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : How Lina Khan's FTC is using the concept of “monopsony”, a market where one buyer is pre-eminent, to push for Big Tech antitrust regulation — Federal Trade Commission chief Lina Khan has developed an innovative way to frame the issue. Whether she has the tools to see it through remains to be seen.
Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker said the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court will be a "beneficiary" of affirmative action – and predicted President Biden's pick "will probably not get a single Republican vote."
Frank Holland / CNBC : Visa says customers made $2.5B in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal Q1 of 2022, which was 70% of its crypto volume for all of FY 2021 — - Visa said during its recent earnings call that customers made $2.5 billion in payments with its crypto-linked cards in its fiscal first quarter of 2022.
Top Pentagon officials on Friday said the build-up of Russian troops along Ukraine's border is the largest since the Cold War, warning that conflict in Eastern Europe would be "horrific," but stressed that it is "not inevitable."
David Shepardson / Reuters : A US appeals court upholds California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the FCC to reverse federal internet protections could not bar state action — A U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday upheld California's net neutrality law, saying a 2017 decision by the Federal Communications Commission …
Justice’s jab at Midler came at the end of his State of the State address, where he touted West Virginia’s wins and recently announced economic developments.
Niraj Chokshi / New York Times : The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely — The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand their networks while allowing aircraft to land safely.
Tim Keary / VentureBeat : Austin-based Portnox, which provides companies with a cloud-native Network Access Control service, raises a $22M Series A led by Elsewhere Partners — Today, Texas-based Portnox, a cloud-native Network Access Control (NAC) provider, closed a $22 million series A funding round.
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said Thursday that "thankfully, no one was harmed," after her unoccupied vehicle was hit by gunfire Saturday in the St. Louis area.
Longtime Virginia gun control advocate Andy Parker, whose TV reporter daughter was killed seven years ago during a live news broadcast, takes aim at social media giants as he launches a run for Congress
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations is an "unofficial travel coordination agency," where agents coordinate travel for some illegal immigrants with criminal records, an ICE source told Fox News.
Makena Kelly / The Verge : The US FCC approves “nutrition labels” forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15 — It's part of the Biden administration's plan to boost market competition — Understanding your broadband speeds …
Tonya Riley / CyberScoop : ID.me backtracks and says it does in fact use “1:many facial recognition” across large databases, a practice that's more “problematic” than “1:1 face matching” — Identity verification company ID.me uses a type of powerful facial recognition that searches …
Republican senators are requesting a formal investigation into the Biden administration's alleged coordination with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the National Education Association (NEA) and whether those relationships were used to silence parents critical of schools' COVID-19 and critical race theory policies.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for the IndexedDB API bug in Safari, as well as iPadOS 15.3, watchOS 8.4, tvOS 15.3, and HomePod 15.3 — Apple's latest round of software updates is now rolling out to the public. iOS 15.3 is now available to iPhone users …
The "Easy On Me" singer, 33, was set to launch a residency at the famed Colosseum of Caesars Palace Hotel on Jan. 21, but announced via Twitter on Thursday that the shows would not be taking place just yet.
Crafting YouTuber Melanie Ham has died following a battle with cancer, her husband Robert revealed on social media. Ham had been diagnosed with a type of sarcoma called epithelioid angiomyolipoma.
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg : Internal Pentagon document: Microsoft's HoloLens-based Army goggles, part of a $22B program started in 2018, are behind schedule and not yet combat ready — Microsoft Corp.'s new multifunction goggle system for the U.S. Army shows promise, but the $22 billion program isn't yet ready for combat deployment …
The Virginia Mathematics Pathways Initiative (VMPI), an equity-focused program that would have eliminated all accelerated math courses before 11th grade, is no longer.
House Pro-Life Caucus Chairman Chris Smith outlined a series of measures Republicans were taking as Democrats attempted to codify Roe v. Wade and provide abortion funding at the federal level.
Dan Muse / VentureBeat : Chip startup Ceremorphic raises a $50M Series A and unveils QS 1, which is built on TSMC's 5nm node and designed to excel at tasks like AI model training — Today, Ceremorphic, a startup, is coming out of stealth mode with $50 million of series A funding along with the announcement of the QS 1 chip …
Sharyn Moffett famously worked alongside horror giants Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in “The Body Snatcher,” as well as Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in “Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House.”
Wall Street Journal : Internal docs: Facebook's low-data service for developing countries, advertised as being free, has regularly led to unexpected charges for users for months — Its program for low-income countries, designed to boost growth outside the U.S., leads to unexpected charges; the company blames software glitches
Bernie Sanders, recognizing the 2022 midterms could result in a GOP Senate majority, said Sunday that Republicans are “laughing all the way to Election Day,” with President Biden’s agenda stalled.
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem said on "Fox News Sunday" that her bill to protect fairness in women's sports will be the "strongest bill in the nation."
CNBC : Dealogic: Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet announced more acquisitions in 2021 than in any other year in the past decade — - Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon all announced more acquisitions in 2021 than any other year in the past decade, according to Dealogic.