DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Frustrating meetings for the College Football Playoff and at the NCAA convention earlier this year led Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey to try to look for a way to seek solutions for issues facing college sports within smaller groups. “So afterwards, traveling home, like, you know, we have some really big […]
Military life often means moving every few years. It’s a requirement that can get expensive for military families. WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS Now, they are a step closer to getting more help to cover the cost of housing. A measure to restore the monthly housing stipend back to 100 percent recently passed a key […]
For the second time in as many months, Assemblyman Bill Essayli, R-Corona, has been removed from a major committee assignment. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, earlier this week sent a letter to the chief clerk of the Assembly stating that, effective immediately, he was pulling Essayli from the Assembly Judiciary Committee — which reviews legislation […]
(Reuters) – A special committee of the Paramount Global’s board agreed to recommend a deal with Skydance Media, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. A potential deal could end months of speculation over Paramount’s fate. Reports on takeover offers from Skydance Media and a consortium of Apollo Global […]
The Oklahoma Senate has resoundingly rejected one of Gov. Kevin Stitt’s nominees to the board of regents that governs Oklahoma State University, just eight days after the Senate Education Committee unanimously recommended her confirmation to the post. The Senate voted 32-13 Wednesday against confirming Susan Bergen, of Norman. Among the senators who opposed Bergen’s nomination […]
WASHINGTON — The House Ethics Committee said Wednesday it will open an investigation into Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat who was recently indicted in a federal bribery case. The panel said in a statement that it had unanimously voted to form a subcommittee tasked with investigating Cuellar after the Justice Department this month released […]
OpenAI said it is setting up a safety and security committee and has begun training a new AI model to supplant the GPT-4 system that underpins its ChatGPT chatbot. The San Francisco startup said in a blog post on Tuesday that the committee will advise the full board on “critical safety and security decisions” for […]
A Georgian parliament committee has rejected the president’s veto of the “foreign agents” legislation that has sparked massive protests for weeks. The move by the parliament’s judiciary committee sets up the possibility of a vote of the full legislature on Tuesday to override President Salome Zourabichvili’s veto of the measure, which she and other critics […]
The second question is, obviously, the House appears poised to move ahead with the contempt resolution on you. I just wonder if you have any comments on it, or if you could tell us whether or not you watched the House Oversight Committee meeting the other night. I caught part of that hearing on Saturday […]
May 24—The State Ethics Commission filed a lawsuit Friday against a “dark money” political group and its founder, former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jeff Apodaca, to force the disclosure of the group’s expenditures and contributors. Apodaca incorporated The New Mexico Project in September to support “pro-moderate” and “pro-business” Democratic legislative candidates in the June 4 primary. […]
One of the US’s leading anti-abortion activists has been appointed to a Texas health committee tasked with reviewing maternal deaths. The move worries reproductive justice advocates who say the state’s abortion ban – among the strictest in the US – has placed pregnant women’s lives in jeopardy. The appointment could undermine the committee’s ability to […]
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion farm spending bill late Thursday night with few Democratic votes, prolonging a standoff between the parties over key nutrition, agriculture, and climate policies. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Congress failed in 2023 to pass a new farm […]