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interior secretary, making her the first native american secretary. all of this as two men accused of attacking capitol police officer brian sicknick who later died from his injuries with bear spray during the january 6th riot make their first court appearance later this afternoon. joining us, correspondent kara lee, covering the white house, and nbc correspondent garrett haake in el paso, texas. and the co-author of the political play book. great to have you with us. the president say...

Exploring how distributed ledger technology can offer governments and industry improved integrity and security for conventional arms transfers.

Chinese lawmakers approved revisions to the country’s counterespionage law on 23 April 2023, broadening the definition of spying and banning the transfer of any information related to...

Members continue discussion on TRIPS Decision extension to therapeutics and diagnostics —

On March 29 and March 30, 2022, the Board of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA or “Agency”) conducted informational sessions on the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and...

Prior to the then vice president-elect kamala harris arrival at the dnc headquarters and this person in the video has not been identified or caught by law enforcement. but going back to the moments that they discovered this device and then theres this evacuation that takes place, we learned after it was discovered, about seven minutes for them to get the then vice president-elect out of there. and it happened as people were beginning to descend on the capitol. what kinds of decisions are being m...

Br broken down. >> what if china provides military support? what if the united states and nato is able to discover provable military aid to russia by china, what will the consequence be? >> well, so far the consequence has been nothing. because, for instance, there are indications that china already provided military intelligence that is -- that gives the russians capability to kill ukrainian drone operators. ukraine is operating chinese drones against russia. dji, the worlds largest maker of dr...

For their lives. you have somehow survived. how have you done it? i want to ask you more about the changing technology, the internet, the way its totally transformed information flows.

I think its fair to say 15 years ago, the assumption or the hope was that the internet was going to completely democratise our societies. it would empower people at the bottom. hierarchies would be changed from top down to bottom up. we all would have access to information at our fingertips, and that would improve our democracies. viewed from today, do you think that was wrong? terribly naive? that information flows, thanks to the internet, have empowered the authoritarians, not the citizens? i ...

-- this post authored by Michael U. Krause, Thomas A. Lubik, and Karl Rhodes During the past 25 years, low-interest rates and highly expansionary monetary policy with little apparent inflation have created the illusion that a government can simply print money to fund exorbitant deficit spending with no repercussions. This core tenet of so-called "modern monetary theory" ignores the fact that deficit spending is constrained in the long run by a governments ability to satisfy creditors. Promoters...