U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is throwing her weight behind Beeper, the app that allowed Android users to message iPhone users via iMessage, until Apple shut it down. Warren, an advocate for stricter antitrust enforcement, posted her support for Beeper on X (formerly Twitter) and questioned why Apple would restrict a competitor. The post indicates … Read more
Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire defeated Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee in the Houston mayoral race in Saturday’s runoff election after a campaign heavily focused on voter concerns over safety on the streets. Whitmire, a perennial tough-on-crime voice who for decades heralded Texas regulations over public safety, was declared the winner by the Associated Press … Read more
Oregon Senator Rob Wyden alleged foreign governments may be spying on Americans through their push notifications in a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) Wednesday. Sen. Wyden asked Apple and Google to share this information with the U.S. government as well, which would evade the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that protects … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave In late 2015, cranes at a seaport in Jacksonville, Fla., carefully hoisted U.S. military helicopters worth up to $40 million each onto a massive cargo ship set to deliver the equipment to the Egyptian government. Egypt’s Defense Ministry had turned to an unusual figure to help arrange … Read more
US Senator Ron Wyden wants the public to know about the details surrounding the long-running Hemisphere phone surveillance program. Wyden has written US Attorney General Merrick Garland a letter (PDF), asking him to release additional information about the project that apparently gives law enforcement agencies access to trillions of domestic phone records. In addition, he … Read more
A Hong Kong court has dismissed a gun charge against a Washington state senator arrested after he carried a gun into the Chinese territory ByKANIS LEUNG HONG KONG Associated Press October 29, 2023, 11:48 PM Washington state Sen. Jeff Wilson covers himself as he arrives at West Kowloon Magistrates Courts in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. … Read more
Senator Dianne Feinstein has sadly passed away. On Friday (September 29), CNN reported that the Democratic Senator from California had died at the age of 90. Sen. Feinstein was the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history and the oldest sitting member of Congress. She was elected to the Senate in 1992 and during her Congressional … Read more
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California has died at age 90, her office confirmed Friday. Feinstein, a Democrat, was the oldest member of the Senate, where she served since 1992. She held her seat in the chamber longer than any other woman, and any senator from California. She passed away Thursday night at her home in Washington, … Read more
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA’s torture of foreign terrorism suspects, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday. Feinstein’s office did not immediately respond to … Read more
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Thursday went to city on Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), who’s singlehandedly blocking tons of of army promotions from advancing within the Senate in protest of Pentagon abortion insurance policies. “The Final Phrase” host slammed Tuberville’s “senseless cruelty” which, he defined, is stopping army households from receiving pay raises that will include … Read more