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Harris may return to the Senate if Feinstein retires early
Vice President Kamala Harris is open to the idea of returning to the United States Senate to serve the remainder of Senator Dianne Feinstein‘s term, a White House staffer tells The Chronicle.…
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House reconciliation bill would remove misguided tax penalty on students with drug records
By Alan D. Viard The budget reconciliation bill recently assembled by the House Budget Committee includes a long-overdue provision (section 137704) that would allow students with drug felony convictions to claim a key education…
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Facebook’s First Amendment rights complicate Section 230 debate
By Daniel Lyons Last week, House Democrats introduced another bill designed to alter social media companies’ business practices — this time by punishing “personalized algorithms.” This is the latest in a yearlong bipartisan assault…
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California state schools lead the way on free speech
BY SAMUEL J. ABRAMS Californians rightly pride themselves in leading the nation in numerous areas, from their stewardship of the environment, to embracing diversity and multiculturalism, to their media and technology sectors.…
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Biden tells inner circle that he will not run again, will not endorse Harris
President Joe Biden has spoken with his inner circle of political advisors and has agreed not to seek a second term in office, but he has no plans of endorsing Vice President…
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Gavin Newsom often had sex in office during work hours, alleged to have harassed staffer
California Governor Gavin Newsom, the well-known playboy of the Democratic Party, is the subject of new harassment allegations from a junior state employee who asked not to be named. Newsom is alleged…
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Hochul wants to revive Amazon ‘HQ2’ deal to anchor the Brooklyn Army Terminal
Governor Kathy Hochul plans to speak with Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos in the coming weeks to explore whether or not talks can be revived to locate a major global headquarters in New…
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Hochul wants to hire a ‘star architect’ to design a dome for the State Capitol
Incoming Governor Kathy Hochul will direct the Office of General Services to begin looking for a “star architect” to design a new glass dome and atrium at the State Capitol, sources familiar with…
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Critics worry that Cuomo will move to Italy to escape criminal prosecution
Sources inside the Executive Chamber are worried that Governor Andrew Cuomo has retained the assistance of a real estate leasing agent based in the Italian city of Pompeii, near his paternal grandparents’…
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Defense supply chain vulnerabilities need near term fixes
BY ELAINE McCUSKER A bipartisan congressional task force this week concluded that “overreliance on China in critical supply chains, particularly in the defense sector, creates significant strategic and competitive risk for the…
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Coalescing over O-RAN
By Bronwyn Howell In the mobile telecommunications industry, well-known for buzzwords and acronyms, the hottest new phrase is “open radio access networks” (O-RAN). O-RAN is an industry concept proposing an alternative way of…
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HHS redacts Fauci email on funding recommendation and hides WHO information
Judicial Watch announced today that it and the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) received from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 311 pages of records of heavily redacted communications from Dr. Anthony…
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DOD sued for records of West Point training on critical race theory
Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Defense for all records related to diversity, inclusion, and equity training for first-year cadets…
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Caitlyn Jenner’s housing affordability plan inspires supply-siders everywhere
California’s highest-profile gubernatorial candidate is heralding the virtues of supply-side economics in a yet-to-be-released plan to make housing more affordable in California. The Olympian Caitlyn Jenner wants to make it far easier,…
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Semiconductors, front and center
By Claude Barfield You know the semiconductor industry has reached star status when CBS’s “60 Minutes” devotes a long segment to its fortunes, and the front page of The Economist warns that “the most dangerous place…
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Variability of US drug prices sparks policy debate
By Benedic N. Ippolito As Congress debates major overhauls to the US drug market, new research is highlighting the increasingly bifurcated nature of domestic drug prices. These data point to a more…
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Tracking core commodity price inflation concerns some
By Paul Kupiec While pundits argue whether April’s reading on US consumer price inflation is a harbinger of future inflation or merely a transitory statistical anomaly, global commodity prices are marching higher.…
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America’s missing $11 trillion
BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Increasing worker productivity is critical to raising living standards over the long run. But what does that mean, exactly? Consider this: If the American economy had been able to…
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California chases away citizens, startups, and, perhaps, the internet industry it invented
BY BRET SWANSON Between July 2018 and July 2020, California lost around 339,000 people to net out-migration. In the last nine months, that trend may even have accelerated. By one estimate, San…
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Securing children online: Balance caution with opportunity
BY SHANE TEWS In March, it was reported that Facebook had plans to develop a new Instagram product for children under the age of 13. Facebook follows the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Children’s Online Privacy…
