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The action is aimed at expanding last year’s bipartisan Safer Communities act, which strengthened background checksLast year the Georgia-based gun manufacturer Daniel Defense tweeted an image of a young child with a rifle – about the same size as the c…
Exclusive: Apparent reversal of position adopted after invasion of Ukraine sends men fleeing Putin’s draft back to RussiaThe Biden administration has quietly resumed deportations to Russia, an apparent reversal of the position adopted after Russia inva…
The US says the extremely popular video-sharing app ‘screams’ of national security concerns and considers a countrywide banTikTok is once again fending off claims that its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would share user data from its popular video-…
DoJ brief argues Colorado case against energy giants ExxonMobil and Suncor should be heard in state court instead of federalThe US Department of Justice filed a legal brief Thursday in support of local governments in Colorado that are part of a growing…
TikTok will be concerned Rishi Sunak will match each upward ratchet in pressure from his alliesWhen asked this week whether the UK would ban TikTok on government phones, Rishi Sunak’s response signalled a change in stance: “We look at what our allies a…
Senate finance committee holds hearing on bank’s collapse and the role relaxing banking regulations had in the crisisSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailEd Helmore reports on a startling story from Politico, to which 12 former s…
Move is latest escalation by lawmakers over fears user data could be passed on to China’s governmentThe Biden administration has threatened to ban TikTok in the US unless the social media company’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in it, according to…
Merrick Garland, the attorney general, tasked with moving the country ‘as close to universal background checks as possible’Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new slate of executive actions that are aimed at reducing gun violence and the proliferation of gun…
Given the antipathy towards Wall Street bailouts in the 2008 crisis, Biden is at pains to stress that ‘no losses’ will be borne by taxpayersWhen is a bailout not a bailout? It’s a question many people are asking after the dramatic collapse of Silicon V…
Announcement comes as Signature Bank was closed on Sunday by regulators – the second to fail in a weekUS financial regulators rolled out emergency measures Sunday night to stem potential contagion from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The measures …