The U.S. auto safety regulator said on Monday it had initiated a recall query into about 112,567 Ford SUVs over an issue with seat belt retractors. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received three complaints, alleging an inadvertent deployment of the seat belt retractor pretensioner. The complaints referred to a loud sound, […]
House Republicans have requested information from the Department of Energy (DOE) about a top United States research facility allegedly using equipment linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its military. Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), said in an Oct. 17 letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm […]
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on July 23 announced the formation of a House Task Force to investigate the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The announcement follows the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in which the former president and 2024 Republican nominee was […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has agreed to testify in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) investigation into his $44 billion acquisition of social media platform Twitter, now renamed X, according to a May 30 court filing. Mr. Musk has waived his right to appeal a court order requiring him to comply with the SEC’s subpoena […]
Conservative legal advocate Leonard Leo was subpoenaed by the Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday as part of an inquiry into a series of alleged shortcomings among Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee—which is probing the alleged undisclosed travel and gifts to […]
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge has opened a probe into Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, for obstruction of justice after he challenged a court order requiring the removal of certain X accounts. In his decision on Sunday, Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes said that Mr. Musk will be probed for […]
U.S. auto-safety regulators on Monday launched a preliminary probe into emergency braking issues in certain Honda vehicles following complaints of crashes and fires. The problem affects the 2019–2022 models of the Honda Insight, a hybrid electric car, and the Honda Passport SUV, and involves 250,712 vehicles, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration […]
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo filed a lawsuit against the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, on Thursday in a bid to get access to statements from a sexual misconduct probe launched against him. In his 26-page lawsuit on Jan. 18, Mr. Cuomo said the attorney general had refused to release the requested materials, which […]
WASHINGTON—The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Wednesday a partial government shutdown would force the agency to suspend its investigation into the cabin panel blowout on a Boeing 737 MAX 9. Congress faces a Friday night deadline to continue to fund some government operations. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said in a letter that because […]
WASHINGTON—A bipartisan group of 11 U.S. House lawmakers on Thursday asked the Biden administration to investigate and potentially sanction Chinese drone maker Autel Robotics, citing national security concerns. The letter, signed by House China select committee chair Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), a Republican, and the panel’s top Democrat, Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), asked the Commerce, Defense, and […]
The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee canceled for the third time a scheduled vote on issuing subpoenas against two private citizens connected to conservative Supreme Court justices. The scuttling of the committee’s business meeting on Nov. 16 came after the Supreme Court unexpectedly unveiled a code of conduct (pdf) for the nine justices on Nov. 13. […]
Jesse Zhu, 62, has been arrested in connection with a Chinese biolab that illegally operated in Reedly, California, the DOJ says. The lab contained viruses such as SARS, COVID, and HIV. NTD’s David Lam speaks with The Epoch Times’ Steve Ispas who spent several weeks uncovering the web of company connections with Universal Meditech Incorporated.
The European Commission said on Thursday that it has launched a probe into social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, over the alleged spreading of “illegal content” and disinformation on its platform about the Hamas-Israel war. The commission will investigate X’s compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which aims to regulate the spread […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Thursday that it has applied for a court order to compel Tesla CEO Elon Musk to testify in an ongoing probe related to his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year. The SEC said in its filing on Oct. 5 that Mr. Musk failed to appear for testimony […]
WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday it was upgrading and expanding its investigation into 708,000 Ford Motor sport utility vehicles and trucks over catastrophic engine failures tied to a faulty valve. The agency says under normal driving conditions vehicles without warning may experience a loss of power due to catastrophic engine […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci was “escorted” into CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia “without a record of entry,” and “influenced” the agency’s review of the origins of COVID-19, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) has claimed. In a Sept. 26 press release, Mr. Wenstrup said the new alleged evidence obtained by the panel […]
U.S. regulators announced charges and fines against 11 Wall Street firms over their failure to maintain electronic records of employee communications. The Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed the combined $289 million in fines following a two-year enforcement investigation focused on Wall Street’s “off-channel” work communications, including Apple’s iMessage, WhatsApp, and Signal, that they say violate […]
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney has rejected former President Donald Trump’s bid to disqualify the lead prosecutor investigating allegations he interfered in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election, while also denying Mr. Trump’s attempt to block any indictments stemming from the probe. Mr. McBurney issued his order (pdf) on July 31, dismissing Mr. Trump’s motion […]
WASHINGTON—The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it is opening a new special crash investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3 where advanced driver assistance systems are suspected of having been used. Since 2016, NHTSA has opened more than three dozen Tesla special crash investigations in cases where […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for an investigation into the recent transport of illegal immigrants from Republican-led border states under “deceptive representations.” In the letter, Mr. Newsom and his co-signatories say that illegal immigrants purportedly seeking asylum in the United States have been transported […]
