House Republicans wrapped up impeachment hearings against Alejandro N. Mayorkas‚ the homeland security secretary‚ on Thursday‚ a little more than a week after the proceedings began‚ racing to charge him with failing to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. The Republicans are moving ahead without evidence that Mr. Mayorkas has committed high crimes or misdemeanors‚ the constitutional standard for impeachment‚ effectively seeking to remove him for immigration policies they argue have...

A new legal filing about child exploitation on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram apps alleges a 2021 internal company estimate found as many as 100‚000 children every day received sexual harassment‚ such as pictures of adult genitalia‚ on the platforms. This was revealed in newly unredacted portions of a complaint from the attorney general of New Mexico in an ongoing lawsuit against the social media giant over the company’s steps to protect children online as the platforms...

Argentine President Javier Milei caught the world’s attention at the Davos’ World Economic Forum after delivering a fiery speech in which he warned of the perils of socialism and outlined plans to pull his country out of economic gloom. “I am here today to tell you the West is in danger‚” Milei — a self-described anarcho-capitalist — warned‚ saying that countries were threatened by an agenda that “inexorably leads to socialism‚ and therefore poverty‚” and that environmentalism‚ abortion‚ “...

The House Oversight and Judiciary committees announced Thursday that Hunter Biden will appear for a closed-door deposition before the panels on Feb. 28. Oversight Chairman James Comer‚ R-Ky.‚ and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan‚ R-Ohio‚ made the joint announcement. “His deposition will come after several interviews with Biden family members and associates. We look forward to Hunter Biden’s testimony‚” they said in a statement.

NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War‚ rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance's eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a "near-peer" adversary. Some 90‚000 troops are due to join the Steadfast Defender 2024 drills that will run through May‚ the alliance's top commander Chris Cavoli said on Thursday.

President Joe Biden’s administration signed onto a lawsuit challenging the NCAA’s authority over college athletes on Thursday‚ a significant development that further clouds the athletic giant’s prospects of scoring federal antitrust protection from Congress. The Justice Department joined a lawsuit originally filed in December by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking to overturn the NCAA’s eligibility restrictions on college athletes who transfer between schools. A federal...

Billionaire Mark Cuban blasted fellow billionaire Elon Musk over his stance on the merits of DEI on the "What Now?" podcast on Thursday. Musk recently kicked off the debate on X — the platform formerly known as Twitter — when he wrote that DEI was "just another word for racism" and "shame on anyone who uses it." When X user Ed Krassenstein mentioned that he thought DEI had major flaws‚ Musk responded that "discrimination on the basis of race‚ which DEI does‚ is literally the...

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