Josh Meyer

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Josh Meyer

WASHINGTON – With everything else going on in the world – trade wars, real wars, culture wars – a Senate panel on Thursday delved into one of the most divisive issues of all: whether America should keep daylight saving time. There were puns galore as Sen. Ted Cruz, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, kicked off the hearing. Even its title, “If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock the Clock?” was a reference to that earworm of a Cher song, as the Texas Republican noted.

2 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Josh Meyer

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department has shut down its unit that investigates cryptocurrency fraud “effective immediately,” even as the Trump administration ramps up its embrace of the emerging digital currency market, according to a memo by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

3 weeks ago | usatoday.com | Marina Pitofsky |Karissa Waddick |Josh Meyer

The assassination of former President John F. Kennedy is taking center stage at a House hearing on Tuesday, as a panel of witnesses testifies about the documents recently released on one of the most shocking moments in American history. However, multiple witnesses, including filmmaker Oliver Stone, are criticizing investigations and long-held findings about the assassination before lawmakers. It's not a new turn for the panel.

3 weeks ago | beaconjournal.com | Josh Meyer |Bart Jansen |Ken Alltucker |Cybele Mayes-Osterman |Eduardo Cuevas |Sudiksha Kochi | +1 more

Sarah D. Wire Josh Meyer Bart Jansen Ken Alltucker Cybele Mayes-Osterman Eduardo Cuevas Sudiksha Kochi Adrianna RodriguezUSA TODAYMass layoffs began Tuesday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and at the Food and Drug Administration, the first steps in a plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

1 month ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Eric Lagatta |C. A. Bridges |Tom Vanden Brook |Cybele Mayes-Osterman |Josh Meyer

What is Signal? Messaging app at the center of Trump officials' leaked attack plansA popular messaging app called Signal was recently the preferred communications platform for top officials in the Trump administration to discuss secret war plans. But the use of the app, widely available on smartphone app stores, to plan an attack on Iranian-backed militants in Yemen likely wouldn't have been made public if a journalist wasn't inadvertently added to the group chat.