The US Senate on Tuesday approved legislation requiring the wildly popular social media app TikTok to be divested from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. The measure was part of a US$95 billion fore...
The proposed legislation, embedded within a $95 billion aid package for allies like Ukraine and Israel, has bipartisan backing. It grants ByteDance a year to offload TikTok, a notable extension from the initial six-month d...
Already, on February 8, the US Senate had passed the $95 billion package to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The package will soon be submitted to US President Joe Biden for approval before it becomes law. “The US insists on passing and signing a bill containing negative content related...
immigration policy and border security with nearly $100 billion in foreign aid on Wednesday failed to garner enough votes to move forward in the U.S. Senate, although voting continued. (Reporting by Makini Brice, Richard Cowan and Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Chris Reese) Copyright 2024 ...
A letter signed by more than 200 former humanitarian and national security officials urges Senate and House leadership to get President Donald Trump to end his foreign aid freeze. Elliott Davis Jr.Feb. 13, 2025 Former Officials to Congress: Stop Tru...
The US Senate passed the bill with a vote of 79 in favor to 18 against on Tuesday, April 23. The TikTok divestment bill, officially titled the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, was bundled into a larger foreign aid bill (H.R.815) that will see the ...
At a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, lawmakers, drug control officials and experts argued for addressing the source of the problem, namely, China's outsized role in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic. TRACKING THE FLOW OF FENTANYL "China is...
Rail service delays and high rates are hurting US businesses, senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) said on 26 May as she introduced a bill that would allow competitive switching agreements and revise rate challenge rules. The Rail Shipper Fairness Act would require "efficient and reliable" ...
TMTPost -- With a critical procedural vote, the U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved closer to pass a bill that could ban TikTok in the country. Credit:Xinhua News Agency The Senate voted to advance the legislation to provide the US$95 billion aid package to Ukriane and threaten Chinese tech gia...
There is widespread concern that foreign actors are using social media to interfere in elections worldwide. Yet data have been unavailable to investigate links between exposure to foreign influence campaigns and political behavior. Using longitudinal sur