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2 months ago | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Anavi Prakash |Valentina Valcarce |William Tong |Aidan Johnstone
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone |Lily Ogburn
WASHINGTON – For years, US venture capital firms have invested in Chinese technology companies linked to China’s military and persecution of the Uyghur people. Now, the recent glare of the spotlight from Congress and declining public opinion of China has prompted these firms to step back from involvement in the country. A bipartisan investigation released last month, co-sponsored by Reps.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
techpolicy.press | Aidan Johnstone |Lily Ogburn
WASHINGTON – For years, US venture capital firms have invested in Chinese technology companies linked to China’s military and persecution of the Uyghur people. Now, the recent glare of the spotlight from Congress and declining public opinion of China has prompted these firms to step back from involvement in the country. A bipartisan investigation released last month, co-sponsored by Reps.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
WASHINGTON — More than 40 pro-Palestinian groups organized the “People’s State of the Union” outside the White House hours before President Biden’s State of the Union address. According to protesters, “the state of our union is genocide.”“We are here to give a diagnosis of the fate of our union,” Cindy Wiesner, executive director of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, said.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
upi.com | Aidan Johnstone
Supreme Court Justices seemed poised Wednesday to remand a case to an appeals court related to Coinbase Inc.'s $1.2 million Dogecoin giveaway in 2021 Photo by Aidan Johnstone/Medill News Service WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Many South Carolina voters arrived at their usual voting locations on Saturday to find no other voters there, which was an unexpected sight on the day of the state’s Republican primary election. These locations weren’t just empty, however – they were no longer voting locations. “They had two signs up at the entrance of the parking lot where I normally parked that directed me to this location,” said voter Ben Inabinet.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
WASHINGTON – The Small Business Administration (SBA) is adjusting standards that determine which businesses can access government contracts and benefits designated for small businesses. These policy changes may alter small businesses’ competition and access to federal resources. “Changes to small-size standards and policies can be a double-edged sword if not done correctly,” said Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.).
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers slammed top executives of large tech companies on Wednesday for not doing enough to prevent online exploitation of children as protesters helped pack the audience sharing victims’ pictures and grim statistics of the problem. “There is blood on your hands,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, as the audience erupted in applause.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
WASHINGTON – Intellectual property experts told Congress members on Tuesday that the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA) is essential to encourage more inventors to apply and get their patents approved, adding that the act would benefit American innovation and businesses. PERA aims to streamline the U.S. patent system by placing clearer guidelines around what is and isn’t eligible for patenting.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu | Aidan Johnstone
WASHINGTON – “Shark Tank” investor and venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary urged House members on Thursday to oppose a set of proposed bank regulations that he said would harm small businesses’ access to lending. The set of regulations, titled Basel III, would require banks to increase the amount of capital they hold by an estimated 20% on average.
