Giorno: 10 Marzo 2023

Rishi Sunak offers soft rebuke to claims Boris Johnson abused honours list

Read More Rishi Sunak has said his father would be lucky to get a card on Father’s Day, let alone a knighthood, after accusations that Boris Johnson’s honours list had discredited the system. Sunak has come under pressure to reject Johnson’s list, in which he nominated his father, Stanley Johnson, for a knighthood, given previous […]

Tax hikes in Biden’s budget would be ‘devastating’ for Americans, says top House tax writer

EXCLUSIVE: The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is warning that the tax hikes in President Biden’s proposed budget would have a “devastating” effect on Americans across the country. “It means a working-class (American) is going to have to pay more to put food on the table, clothes on their backs and gasoline […]

Virginia judge allows Google antitrust case to move ahead

A judge has rejected a request from Google to transfer a federal antitrust lawsuit against it from Virginia to New York. The ruling Friday from U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema is a victory for the Justice Department and several states, including Virginia, that sued Google earlier this year and wanted to keep the case in […]

Top GOP chairmen sound alarm on foreign threats report: Nation at a ‘tipping point’

A group of Republican House committee chairmen are sounding the alarm over the U.S. intelligence community’s annual threat assessment released earlier this week that warned of “complex” threats from China, Russia, North Korea and others. In a joint statement issued Friday, House Permanent Select Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. […]

Rep. Roy introduces bill to designate Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations

FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that would designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) in response to the ongoing trafficking of migrants and deadly drugs in the U.S. being facilitated by those cartels. The Drug Cartel Terrorist Designation Act would require the State Department to designate the Gulf […]

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore raised nearly $4.6M for inaugural festivities

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore raised nearly $4.6 million for his inaugural festivities, according to a report filed with the Maryland State Board of Elections. About $4.3 million was spent on the inaugural celebration in January. About $1.4 million came from ticket sales for the inaugural ball at the Baltimore Convention Center. An inaugural committee received […]

China condemns Japan’s plan to release Fukushima’s radioactive wastewater into the sea

China on Friday condemned a Japanese plan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, demanding that Tokyo first receive the approval of neighboring countries. China has made similar complaints on a regular basis in the past, but has not said how it would respond if Japan goes ahead […]

President of Cyprus sets defense spending goal at 2% of GDP

Cyprus will earmark 2% of gross domestic product to defense spending in line with other European Union member states as a means to strengthen the east Mediterranean island nation’s foreign policy bargaining power, the new Cypriot president said Friday. Nikos Christodoulides told reporters after a visit to a special forces training camp that he aims […]

IS claim responsibility for suicide bombing on senior Taliban governor in Afghanistan

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed the governor of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province and two other people at his office. The regional affiliate of IS — known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province — is a key rival of the Taliban. The militant group has increased its […]

Belgium latest to ban TikTok on government devices

Belgium is banning TikTok from government phones over worries about cybersecurity, privacy and misinformation, the country’s prime minister said Friday, mirroring recent action by other authorities in Europe and the U.S. The Chinese-owned video sharing app will be temporarily prohibited from devices owned or paid for by the Belgium’s federal government for at least six […]