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In this article SBNY SIVB Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) speaks to members of the media outside a briefing on the latest development of the COVID-19 outbreak to Senate members at Dirksen Senate Office Building March 12, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Alex Wong | Getty Images

District Attorney Alvin Bragg arrives at the office of District Attorney, after a message was posted on the Truth Social account of former U.S. President Donald Trump stating that he had expected to be arrested, and called on his supporters to protest, in New York City, U.S. March 22, 2023.  Caitlin Ochs | Reuters A

A car drives next to a board at a bus stop showing a U.S. national debt figure after the U.S. government hit its $31.4 trillion borrowing limit amid a standoff between the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, President Joe Biden and Democratic legislators that could lead to a fiscal crisis in a few months, in Washington,

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens to Peiter Mudge Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testify during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Data Security at Risk: Testimony from a Twitter Whistleblower, in Hart Building Tuesday, September 13, 2022.  Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California announced Tuesday

Lael Brainard, vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, speaks during an Urban Institute panel discussion in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, June 3, 2022. Ting Shen | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House has tapped Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard to lead the National Economic Council and Jared Bernstein to head the

Former South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 19, 2022. Wade Vandervort | AFP | Getty Images Nikki Haley, a former governor for South Carolina and United Nation’s ambassador, announced she was entering the 2024 presidential race on Tuesday, making her

Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council John Kirby speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House February 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images News | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday defended President Joe Biden’s decision to shoot down three low-flying, aerial objects

Rep. Patrick McHenry, a Republican of North Carolina and ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, speaks during a hearing in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Top House Republicans on Friday sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission as Congress scrutinizes the agency’s actions against Sam Bankman-Fried, former

Used boxes of Mifepristone pills, the first drug used in a medical abortion, fill a trash at Alamo Women’s Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., January 11, 2023.  Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal judge in Texas has extended until Feb. 24 the deadline in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s

A statue sits covered in snow outside of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images More than a dozen abortion opponents sued the National Archives and Records Administration and the National Air and Space Museum after security guards there ordered them to remove or hide

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the National Press Club on November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images The FBI found an additional classified document Friday during a search of the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence, his spokesman told CNBC. Authorities also took six other pages

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military shot down a second “high altitude object” in American airspace, this time off the coast of Alaska on Friday, the White House announced. The mission occurred less than a week after a high altitude Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down off the coast of South Carolina. White House spokesman John

The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, South Carolina, U.S. February 4, 2023.  Randall Hill | Reuters WASHINGTON — The Commerce Department announced a new round of sanctions Friday targeting six Chinese aerospace companies that it identified as supporting the nation’s military’s reconnaissance

Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims II, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington, DC, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. Anna Rose Layden | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate held its first public hearing on the Chinese spy balloon Thursday, at which visibly

U.S. Rep. George Santos (R-NY) sits in the House Chamber prior to U.S. President Joe Biden delivering his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 7, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., was charged with theft in a 2017 case in Pennsylvania that was later