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U.S. officials have issued new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible control over the health care of Americans.
China is saying there is “no room” for compromise or concessions over the issue of Taiwan, following a comment by U.S. President Joe Biden that the U.S. is committed to defending the island if it is attacked.
3 years ago
LISA MASCARO, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press
The White House is floating new plans for ways to pay for President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion proposal for expanding social services and tackling climate change.
(CNN) — Republican Rep. Liz Cheney blasted former President Donald Trump’s ally Steve Bannon for refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the January 6 riot, saying that his claim of executive privilege is not only invalid, but suggests Trump was “personally involved” in the planning and execution of the events that day. While […]
3 years ago
MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI, Associated Press
A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has voted unanimously to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress.
A House committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection is moving swiftly to hold at least one of Donald Trump’s allies in contempt.
A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.
3 years ago
JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG & ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to block the release of documents related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection to a House committee investigating the attack, challenging President Joe Biden's initial decision to waive executive privilege.
The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s constitutionality plays out in the courts.
Russia says it's suspending its mission at NATO and ordering the closure of the alliance’s office in Moscow in retaliation to NATO’s expulsion of Russian diplomats.
Bill Clinton was said to be recovering from a urological infection Friday, and an aide to the former president said that Clinton was in an intensive care section of the hospital, though not receiving “ICU care.”
3 years ago
MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press
A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied the panel’s subpoena.
The Bluffdale city council planned to launch an investigation Thursday weeks before the election, into “additional” allegations that are “criminal in nature” against the former fire chief turned candidate for mayor.
3 years ago
KEVIN FREKING, ALAN FRAM and ALEXANDRA JAFFE, Associated Press
(CNN) — Nine months after the US Capitol riot, a Pennsylvania woman has been formally charged with stealing and then selling or disposing of a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. An indictment unsealed on Thursday against Riley Williams accuses the 22-year-old of stealing a laptop from Pelosi’s office and then ultimately getting rid of it. […]
Reaction to word that President Joe Biden would restore Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments to their size before former President Donald Trump shrunk them, was met with swift criticism and praise Thursday.
3 years ago
MARY CLARE JALONICK, ERIC TUCKER and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press
A report by the Senate Judiciary Committee's Democratic majority details Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election that he lost.
3 years ago
LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and JOSH BOAK, Associated Press
It would be the token of all tokens: a $1 trillion coin, minted by the U.S. government, then cashed in to flood the treasury with cash and solve a political impasse over suspending the debt limit.
President Joe Biden’s and congressional Democrats’ push for a 10-year, $3.5 trillion package of social and environmental initiatives has reached a turning point.
