On Monday, the Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners read a proclamation thanking Senator Doug Broxson for all he’s done for the county over his time in the legislature. Broxson, who is term-limited, has served in the Florida Senate since 2016, representing Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Escambia counties. He also previously served four years in the Florida […]
Senators took their official oath Wednesday to act as jurors for the impeachment trial of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, marking the first such event for a sitting Cabinet member in U.S. history.
Zoie Saunders, Gov. Phil Scott’s pick for Vermont’s education secretary, took her first step toward confirmation on Tuesday when she spent 90 minutes answering questions from the state Senate Education Committee. A school administrator from Florida, Saunders described herself as a data-driven leader committed to supporting Vermont's public education system. She also spent some of her opening remarks defending her professional experience, which has been dissected since she was nominated...
Officials of the Bureau of Immigration (BI), Department of National Defense (DND) and local government units will be invited to the Senate hearing on the influx of Chinese students in Cagayan, Sen. Risa Hontiveros said yesterday.
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A Boeing whistleblower testified in a hearing Wednesday about safety concerns related to two of the company's aircraft.
Three deepfake-detection software experts testified to the Senate's subcommittee on privacy, technology and the law Tuesday about how Congress can regulate the artificial intelligence space, particularly the rise of malicious deepfakes. Deepfakes are misleading audio, video or images that are created or edited with AI technology. In January, deepfake audio that impersonated President Joe Biden telling Democrats not to vote in the New Hampshire primary was sent to thousands of voters in a...
The chairman of the federal commission looking into an ethics complaint about U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's controversial podcast syndication deal once worked for the Texas Republican, raising concerns about his ability to be impartial in the case. Sean J. Cooksey, a Trump appointee who chairs the Federal Election Commission, served as Cruz's deputy chief counsel in 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile. From 2019 until joining the FEC in 2020, Cooksey served as general counsel for U.S....
MORNING NEWSBREAK | Federal lawmakers and whistleblowers described a culture of putting profits ahead of safety at Boeing in a pair of April 17 U.S. Senate hearings, one of which focused on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner made in North Charleston. The hearings followed several recent safety issues with the company’s commercial jets, including a door-plug […]
Boeing was back in the spotlight on Wednesday as the subject of two Senate hearings focused on alleged safety lapses at the plane-maker. The first hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation centered around a report issued in February by a panel of industry and government experts that a “disconnect” between …
The CEO of Woolworths, Brad Banducci, was threatened with six months behind bars during a Senate inquiry.