Media Bubbles

A group of TikTok users has sued to overturn Montana’s new statewide ban blocking the app, alleging that the law signed this week by Gov. Greg Gianforte violates the First Amendment.

In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.

But rather than holding a straight up or down vote on the expulsion, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., lined up his caucus to instead refer the resolution booting Santos to the Ethics Committee. The party line vote,

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During a meeting with more than two dozen bank CEOs on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stressed the urgent need for Congress to address the debt ceiling, according to a readout of the meeting from the Treasury Department.

The justices acted after the Biden administration announced that the health emergency used to justify the measure, Title 42, was ending.

The Federal Trade Commission's settlement with Premom's parent company speaks to the frightening traps and pitfalls abortion-seekers could face if they use similar apps.

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President Joe Biden faces his fellow world leaders Friday in Japan under the shadow of a looming default on US debt, a scenario his advisers said risks subverting American leadership and sending the global economy into tailspin.

Their pursuit by paparazzi in New York shows that neither leaving Britain nor having a police escort shields them from unwanted attention.

A wrongful death lawsuit accuses several establishments of overserving the alleged drunk driver who police say slammed into newlyweds riding along a South Carolina beach road in a crash that killed th

Sailors assigned to ships undergoing years-long maintenance periods appear to be at a heightened risk of death by suicide due to inadequate living conditions, a Navy report found.

The State Department is offering to let House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and a Democratic colleague view the cable and the department's response.

Offense finds clutch hits elusive in a 5-3 loss that reveals, again, jus how little margin for error the Nationals have.

Democratic negotiators are trying to offer up smaller changes to head off larger concessions on work requirements for key safety net programs as part of a deal stave off a national default.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he expects the House to consider a deal on the federal debt limit next week, offering his most positive take yet on the negotiations to avoid a default.

A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender,

The case was brought by plaintiffs who said the social media company aided and abetted terrorism. Based on its opinion, the Supreme Court sent a related case involving Google back to the lower courts.

City council members voted to rename a stretch of MacArthur Boulevard, where the rapper once lived, as "Tupac Shakur Way."

The delicate negotiations, which congressional leaders have said yielded progress in recent days, could be upended by the demand.

Republicans and Democrats battled during a tense hearing Thursday over three FBI agents who Republicans say were retaliated against for blowing the whistle on bias at the agency— and who Democrats

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A photo agency that took pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during what the royals said was a dangerous car chase has refused to turn over images of the incident to the couple. Backgrid told the BBC that they had rejected a demand by the couple's legal team to share all footage taken during Tuesday's pursuit in New York City.

Chicago's new mayor is grappling with how to house hundreds of migrants arriving on buses from the U.S.-Mexico border, with some sleeping in police stations and shelters strained after border crossings rose earlier this month.

As the future of student loan forgiveness and the ongoing student loan pause remains clouded, the Education Department has made it easier to lower payments.

Political storms in America and Europe over immigration control, featuring populist and nationalist arguments, mask the perennial nature of migration.

If the situation doesn’t improve, migrants may be housed on a facility on Riker’s Island — home to one of the most notorious jails in the country.

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U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, who returned to Washington in May after a months-long absence due to shingles, suffered more complications from the illness than were publicly disclosed, the New York Times reported on Thursday.

Holmes, who grew up partly in Houston, Texas, would not be the first celebrity to spend time at the prison camp. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Star Jen Shah is serving a six-and-a-half year prison sentence there for wire fraud.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) slammed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and one of his California colleagues in a letter on Thursday, accusing them of ignoring a flooding disaster set to affect their constituents.

Advisory-unit chief Peter Orszag is expected to be the new head of the deal-advisory, asset-management firm.

The House Freedom Caucus said Thursday it won’t accept a watered-down version of the debt-limit proposal passed by the GOP last month — imperiling negotiations on the topic between Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Biden.

The harm caused by marijuana abuse does not justify reverting to an oppressive policy that criminalized peaceful conduct.

Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) political team is touting how he battled against the media for parental rights as he inches closer to a 2024 decision.

Drug testing by employers reveals a surge in employee marijuana use as more U.S. states legalize.

Our long, national nightmare is finally over. The federal government’s sprawling espionage operation into Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for president has been exposed. Only the deepest conspiracy nuts remain in denial.

The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.

A campaign-style video that makes pointed references to former President Ronald Reagan, a still-popular GOP figure, is reigniting questions about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R-VA) political future as more Republicans announce presidential campaigns.

The decision clarifies the duties of online platforms to remove terrorist propaganda but avoids larger questions of their liability for posted content.

While the U.S. is desperately trying to brush China’s spy balloon activities under the carpet, Chinese government sources laid out plans for using balloons as offensive weapons.

A viral video appears to show Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo smiling while pondering the idea of joining the Warriors.

The AP’s State Department reporter Matt Lee pressed State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel on a purported internal change that included gender pronouns in the 'from' field of department emails.

The educator concluded that its contents were largely inspired by African American Vernacular English: “I know you think that you came up with all these words, but you didn’t.”

Texas, introduced the "Protecting Federal Funds from Human Trafficking and Smuggling Act of 2023" to set standards for nonprofit organizations as they gather in border towns to assist with the migrant surge.

Disgraced ex-nuclear official Sam Brinton is facing a grand larceny charge stemming from the theft of an African’s designer’s clothing, according to the alleged victim’s lawyer – and may languish in jail for up to a month before being extradited to Washington D.C.

A ballot question that, if approved by voters, would make it more difficult to amend Ohio's constitution, has been cleared to appear on the state's August ballot.

Commencement speeches are supposed to be congratulatory, encouraging and optimistic. Instead, Biden’s speech sounded like he was warning about an America 100 years ago that featured a rise in the Ku Klux Klan and the lynching of black people. Contrast this downer of an address with what another president said nearly a century ago.

Chip Roy blasts Air Force plans to celebrate Pride Month, calls them a "ridiculous use of taxpayer dollars," says GOP should pull support from defense spending bill.

A frustrated Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday begged Big Apple officials for a full-court press on migrant help as he ripped City Council members over what he sees as an apparent lack of support.