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5 BURNING QUESTIONS ON HQ2 — Amazon officially ended one of the tech sector's long-running mysteries Tuesday by unveiling Crystal City in Virginia and the Queens borough of New York as the locations for its next headquarters. But questions remain about how the HQs will affect the two regions, how the company's larger presence in Washington will factor in politically, and more.
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—While Silicon Valley companies face increased scrutiny over the role they play in elections and the propagation of false or biased news, politicians and industry insiders at a Wall Street Journal conference said there should be limited regulation of the industry.
On October 30, the United States called for the Yemen war to end within a month's time.
But in the two weeks since, Saudi Arabia's coalition has intensified its attacks on a critical rebel-held city — closing the short-lived window to end to the brutal four-year conflict.
If the mayor of a city is its best representative, then Dallas has a broken heart. "We don't like to lose. This does not make us happy," Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a press conference Tuesday, referencing Amazon's decision not to select his city as a location for its second headquarters.
WASHINGTON ― Republican leadership in the House of Representatives moved Tuesday evening to quash a bill that would end U.S. support for the brutal Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen.
On the first day of their post-election lame-duck session, House Republicans decided to block a vote on whether the US should support Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen, three congressional sources say.
Democrats' House takeover and shifts in the Senate landscape are bound to shift Congress's tech and cyber policies. Here's a rundown.
Pushing on Privacy
A Democratic congressman from California is looking to the past to bring more tech jobs to middle-Americans in the future.
A Silicon Valley lawmaker has a plan to bring big tech jobs to middle America – an idea he traces to Abraham Lincoln and believes may help his party defeat Donald Trump in 2020.