The program is part of an effort to encourage the development of technology centers outside of Silicon Valley. WASHINGTON—Over the past twenty years, technological innovation has mainly been concentrated in traditional tech hubs like California, New York, and Massachusetts. The Biden administration is now looking to broaden this potential, providing smaller tech hubs across the
The Department of Energy is set to give a $400 million loan to a financially troubled battery company that admitted to defrauding the federal government in 2022, according to court records. Eos Energy—whose board includes a personal friend of Department of Energy loan czar Jigar Shah—was forced to pay a $1 million settlement to the
Eloise Maybank is accustomed to luxury. A London native, Maybank attended high school at a private French academy in London, the renowned Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, and then at Milton Academy, an elite Massachusetts boarding school where tuition runs $76,000 a year. Then she enrolled at Columbia. Maybank was among approximately 100
The president’s speech comes after the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts.” WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden addressed the nation on July 1 to express his disappointment with the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts, claiming that it “undermines the rule of
The president delivered speech after the Supreme Court’s 6–3 ruling that presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts.” WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden addressed the nation on July 1 to express his disappointment with the Supreme Court’s ruling that presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for official acts, claiming that it “undermines the rule of
On July 1, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents and former presidents enjoy “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for “conduct within his exclusive sphere of constitutional authority,” setting guidelines for which acts in former President Donald Trump’s federal election case can remain in the indictment but leaving large amounts of litigation for the district court.
A Washington County election policy change caused 259 voters to be disenfranchised in the 2024 primary election, the complaint alleges. A new legal case in Pennsylvania may revive the debate over the rules surrounding voters’ signatures on the envelopes of mail-in ballots. In Pennsylvania, voters casting mail-in ballots place their marked ballot in an envelope,