John Podesta to succeed John Kerry as Biden’s top climate change adviser

Senior adviser will take over responsibilities, but not title, of John Kerry, who stepped down to work on Biden’s re-election campaign White House senior adviser John Podesta will add international climate policy to his job responsibilities, replacing special climate envoy John Kerry as the top US official on international climate issues, the White House said … Read more

Social media execs grilled in Congress over child safety concerns

Executives from Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord faced tough questioning about their efforts to combat online sexual abuse. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the companies haven’t done enough to keep children safe, with chairman Dick Durbin saying “online child sexual exploitation is a crisis in America.” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized to … Read more

FBI Director Christopher Wray warns of alarming hacking threat from China

FBI Director Christopher Wray told a House committee that hackers in China are focusing on American infrastructure and preparing to “wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities.” He said the targets could include electrical grids, water treatment plants, gas pipelines and transportation systems. NBC’s Ken Dilanian reports.

‘Grumpy Old Men’: Nikki Haley targets Biden and Trump’s age in new ads

Ex-South Carolina governor’s new campaign highlights ‘senior moments’ of both men who are likely headed for a rematch Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has launched a new attack on her rivals in the 2024 election – fellow party member Donald Trump and US president Joe Biden, with an advertisement campaign targeting their age. In a … Read more

Chinese communists ‘desperate to crush’ religion, ‘faith in God,’ Republican representative warns

FIRST ON FOX: House China Select Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher is expected to warn that the Chinese Communist Party is “desperate to crush religion,” and is using it “as a tool to control people’s minds,” while declaring that the “opposite of Communism is faith in God.” Gallagher, R-Wis., will speak at the National Prayer Breakfast … Read more

Dead, not on arrival: Where the bipartisan border deal stands in Congress before anyone has even seen it

Lawmakers often disparage reporters when they ask about hypotheticals. But Senate conservatives scorched the hypothetical bipartisan border security package. Even before they saw it. “This could cause as many problems as it solves,” predicted Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. But some on the right were out to kill the bill long before they even knew much … Read more