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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.

The coalition's latest massive assault is focused on Hodeidah, a vital port city in western Yemen that the Houthis — a rebel group fighting the US-backed, Saudi-led coalition — have controlled since 2014. More than 70 percent of the country's food, aid, fuel, and goods come through the city.

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. "We competed hard, we competed well, but we did not succeed," he went on, sounding like a coach addressing a team who thought it had the big game in the bag. "I like to win so my heart's broken today."

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.

First Amazon. Now Walmart.

A Democratic congressman from California is looking to the past to bring more tech jobs to middle-Americans in the future.

Rep. Ro Khanna, who represents a tech-heavy district that includes Silicon Valley, plans to introduce a bill that would establish a grant program to build up tech-related education opportunities in the middle of the country – in an effort to help the area transition to innovation-based economies.

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

For starters, you can expect the debate over online privacy to grow louder in the coming months, according to Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif. Khanna listed personal privacy and data security among the party's top tech priorities at a Washington Post event on Thursday. Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N.J., separately indicated privacy could become a key issue for the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the upcoming congressional term.