Category: Politics

The administration is launching the website stopransomware.gov to offer the public resources for countering the threat. BOSTON — The Biden administration will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of foreign state-sanctioned malicious activity against critical U.S. infrastructure — including ransomware attacks — and the […]

Former President Donald Trump is struggling to put himself back at the center of America’s attention. His recent lawsuits against Google, Facebook and Twitter highlight the platforms’ power to control digital speech, even that of world leaders. Michelle Quinn reports. Producer: Michelle Quinn. Source link

President Joe Biden made the case for his sweeping, two-track infrastructure initiative Wednesday on Capitol Hill, a day after leading Senate Democrats agreed on a $3.5 trillion plan billed as the biggest boost in decades for U.S. families.  Biden joined fellow Democrats for a closed-door lunch where he sought their […]

Lisa Desjardins: If our viewers take anything away from this conversation that you and I have, I want them to understand there are two different bills here moving at the same time. And, politically, they’re different, but they’re connected. Let me go through those. First of all, to start with […]

Jagmeet Singh is promising that infrastructure projects funded by a New Democratic government would use Canadian steel and other domestic goods to help get people working. “Any time we talk about big infrastructure, there has to be a commitment that the infrastructure is made with Canadian products, Canadian steel, […]

The number of military sexual misconduct class action claims have jumped by 170 per cent since late December 2020 amid a reckoning over abuse of power and the toxic culture in the Canadian Forces. More than 600 new claims have been submitted just in the past month, but there […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Belarus raided the offices and homes of dozens of human rights activists and journalists Wednesday in a crackdown that came a day after the country’s authoritarian president promised to “deal with” non-governmental organizations that he accuses of fomenting unrest. Law enforcement officers raided the […]

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Wednesday to identify the cause of chronic hiccups, the president’s office said, in the latest health scare for the far-right leader who was stabbed in the gut on the campaign trail in 2018. Bolsonaro, 66, went to the military hospital in Brasilia […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Quebec’s Gaspé region on Wednesday where he announced a $25-million investment for the expansion of General Electric’s  LM Wind Power plant. The manufacturing plant produces rotor blades for wind mills. The $170-million expansion will allow the factory to produce much larger blades for […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Olivia Rodrigo wants people to know that the COVID-19 vaccines are “good 4 u.” Watch the briefing in the video player above. The 18-year-old pop star and internet sensation was at the White House on Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci as […]