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Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of , will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23rd. Chow will discuss the app's privacy and data security measures, its impact on kids and ties to China (parent company ByteDance is headquartered in the country). This will be Chew's first appearance in front of a congressional panel, the committee said. TikTok COO Vanessa Pappas from lawmakers in September. "ByteDance-owned TikTok has knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user…

WASHINGTON— Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla Inc. and Twitter Inc., met Friday with White House officials as well as top Republicans, amid deep interest on Capitol Hill in both electric-vehicle subsidies and social-media rules.  Mr. Musk spoke Friday with John Podesta, a senior energy adviser to President Biden, and Mitch Landrieu, the White House’s infrastructure law coordinator to discuss electric vehicles, according to a…

WASHINGTON —  A House panel voted along party lines Tuesday to release former President Trump’s tax returns, an unprecedented move that marks the culmination of a years-long legal battle to disclose his financial records.Republicans said the move underscored Democrats’ ongoing obsession with Trump, warning the release would create a dangerous new weapon that could be used against other politicians, business executives, labor leaders and even private citizens.Many Democrats cheered the move as long overdue. Unlike other…

The implosion of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has drawn the attention of politicians, with the House and the Senate set to hold hearings on the mess on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. The House's Committee on Financial Services is first up at 10AM ET with a hearing titled, "Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I."  First up to testify is new FTX CEO John J. Ray III, but following the arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried in the Bahamas on Monday and subsequent charge by the SEC, it's unlikely that the co-founder and former…

One of Boeing Co. BA -1.73% ’s biggest engineering challenges has morphed into a political problem—and the company is running out of time to get help from the current Congress. The plane maker’s executives and lobbyists are racing to persuade federal lawmakers to lift a Dec. 27 deadline set by Congress two years ago as part of a law aimed at making future airplanes safer. The law, enacted in the wake of two deadly crashes of Boeing’s 737 MAX, requires new aircraft to…

Claudia Morales, a floral manager at Safeway in Colorado Springs, thought about her two children in high school when she first learned about the proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons. “What happens if I lose my job? Do they get to go to college? Maybe, maybe not,” she said. The news “dropped on us like a bombshell.” She joined six United Food and Commercial Workers unions representing more than 100,000 Kroger and Albertsons employees in 12 states and Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday as a…

The race for a hotly contested Los Angeles-area congressional district had not been called, but Democrat Christy Smith sensed she would end up on the losing end. And she felt there was a clear reason why.“Our campaign got next-to-zero outside resources to fight this battle. In fact, I was fighting the institutional power of my own party from the outset of this race,” Smith said in a scathing series of remarks on Twitter. With no help on the airwaves and little elsewhere from Democratic Party committees and PACs, “we…

Days after ballots were cast in California’s midterm election, 10 of the congressional races deemed most at risk of flipping remained too close to call. Those hotly contested races could determine control of Congress or, at a minimum, influence the margin of power. Republicans need to pick up a net of just five seats across the nation to gain a majority in the House of Representatives. “It will absolutely come down to California,” said David Wasserman, a House campaign analyst with the nonpartisan Cook Political Report…

The New York Times alleges that Ron Watkins began posting as Q in 2018—Watkins has denied these claims.Image: Rick Loomis (Getty Images)Ron Watkins, the alleged mastermind behind the QAnon conspiracy, has shut down his campaign for an Arizona congressionalseat. Watkins was running as a Republican and announced the termination of his campaign to the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday.QAnon is as much a part of Republican politics as logical fallacies are, but the conspiracy theory’s stranglehold on democracy appears…

Bloomberg poses with Oscar the Grouch during a summit in New York City on Wednesday.Photo: Bruce Gilbert (AP)Michael Bloomberg is taking on plastic producers. The billionaire announced Wednesday that he will launch a $85 million campaign to fight against the expansion of the petrochemical industry.The campaign, called Beyond Petrochemicals, will focus on three regions of the country—Louisiana, Texas and the Ohio River Valley—that have been particularly hit in recent years by new petrochemical plants and planned…