Presidential elections

Wednesday’s Republican Debate Is Opportunity to Shine for NewsNation

HS 06/12/2023

Updated Dec. 5, 2023 4:49 pm ETThe next Republican presidential primary debate will give the two-year-old cable-news upstart NewsNation a...

Meta to Require Campaigns to Disclose AI-Altered Political Ads

HS 08/11/2023

Meta Platforms on Wednesday announced that it will require advertisers to disclose when they run political ads with media that...

BUSINESS News

Schwarzenegger Says Democratic and Republican Leadership Ranks Need Fresh Blood

HS 17/10/2023

Oct. 17, 2023 12:39 am ETLAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Aging leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties should step aside and make...

What’s in the Debt-Ceiling Deal

HS 30/05/2023

The agreement between President Biden and House Republicans includes spending caps, work requirements and permitting. Source link

Fox Has Settled One Voting Machine Company’s Defamation Case. Another Looms.

HS 20/04/2023

Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems gives Smartmatic leverage, legal experts say. Source link

Fox to Pay $787.5 Million to Settle Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit

HS 19/04/2023

The settlement averts a trial on the voting-machine company’s allegations that it was defamed by network broadcasts after the 2020...

Fox News, Dominion Prepare for Battle in $1.6 Billion Defamation Trial

HS 17/04/2023

A Delaware jury is slated to consider whether the network acted with “actual malice” in broadcasting false election-fraud claims. Source...

Fox News Defamation Case Cleared for Trial

HS 01/04/2023

BusinessMedia & MarketingJudge rejects arguments network should win against Dominion without case going to a jury Source link

In Deposition, Rupert Murdoch Says Fox News Hosts Endorsed False 2020 Election Claims

HS 28/02/2023

BusinessMedia & MarketingNew details emerge in defamation case brought by voting-machine company Dominion Voting Systems Source link

Nepal Presidential Elections to be Held on March 9

HS 30/01/2023

Kathmandu: Nepal will hold Presidential elections on March 9, said the Election Commission of Nepal. The Election Commission of Nepal...

Economic Pressures Weigh on Voters in Final Midterms Campaign Stretch

HS 29/10/2022

Sean Belveal, a 44-year-old assistant high-school principal in suburban Cleveland who voted for President Biden, thinks his middle-class family shouldn’t...

Student Loan Servicers Told to Hold Off on Sending Billing Statements

HS 26/07/2022

WASHINGTON—The federal government’s student loan servicing contractors have been instructed to hold off on sending billing statements ahead of an...

Sen. Joe Manchin Balks at Global Minimum Tax Championed by Biden

HS 16/07/2022

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration’s international tax agenda suffered a setback when Sen. Joe Manchin rejected a 15% minimum tax on multinational...

Rising Risk of Recession Creates New Headache for Biden

HS 22/05/2022

The Federal Reserve’s efforts to slow inflation are raising the possibility of higher unemployment, a slower-growing economy and a recession,...

Democrats Launch Attempt to Rescue Biden’s Economic Agenda

HS 27/04/2022

WASHINGTON—Democrats began a last-ditch effort to cobble together a narrower version of President Biden's once-sweeping economic agenda that could win...

Former Treasury Official Michael Barr Is Frontrunner for Top Fed Banking Regulator

HS 12/04/2022

WASHINGTON—Michael Barr, a former Treasury Department official, is the White House’s leading candidate to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top...

Senate Republicans Block Vote on Biden’s Fed Nominees

HS 16/02/2022

WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans refused to attend a crucial committee vote on President Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve over a disagreement...

Peter Thiel to Step Down From Facebook Parent Meta’s Board

HS 08/02/2022

Peter Thiel, one of Facebook’s earliest investors and its longest-serving outside board member, is planning to step down from his...

House Approves Increase in Debt Ceiling, Sending Measure to Biden

HS 15/12/2021

WASHINGTON—Congress passed a measure raising the government’s borrowing limit by $2.5 trillion, sending to President Biden’s desk legislation that is...