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☆ Watch live: President Biden addresses Israel-Hamas war as fighting continues
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden is set to address the unprecedented attacks on Israel carried out over the weekend by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. Biden's remarks at the White House, which were scheduled for 1 p.m. ET, come as the Pentagon rushes security assistance for Israel to the region. The Israel-Hamas conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 1,700 people. Biden confirmed the deaths of at least 11 Americans in Israel and acknowledged that some U.S. citizens may have been kidnapped by Hamas.

Persons: Joe Biden, Biden's, Biden, Read Organizations: WASHINGTON —, Hamas, White, Pentagon Locations: WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON — U.S, Israel, Palestinian

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba greets US Secretary of State Antony Blinken before a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv on September 6, 2023. WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, his fourth trip to the war-weary country since Russia's full-scale invasion last year. During the two-day visit, Blinken met with key Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Blinken's trip comes amid a burst of battlefield gains recently by Ukrainian forces, who are carrying out a counteroffensive in the South and East of the country. In the 72 hours before Blinken arrived, Ukrainian soldiers made "notable progress" in southern Zaporizhzhia, the White House said.

Persons: Dmytro Kuleba, Antony Blinken, Blinken, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Denys Shmyhal Organizations: Ukraine's, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, WASHINGTON, State Department, Reuters Locations: Kyiv, WASHINGTON — U.S, Ukrainian, South, Zaporizhzhia

☆ Trump-appointee David Weiss named special counsel in Hunter Biden probe as DOJ calls for trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

U.S. Attorney David Weiss holds a press conference Thursday, May 3, 2018, at his district office in Wilmington, Del. WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that David Weiss, the federal prosecutor in Delaware who has led the criminal investigation of President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, will be appointed special counsel in the case. Garland said that Weiss, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump to become a U.S. Attorney in 2018, asked earlier this week to be named special counsel. At nearly the same time Garland was announcing the special counsel investigation of the president's son, federal prosecutors revealed in new court filings that they had reached an "impasse" in plea negotiations with Hunter Biden's lawyers. "The Government now believes that the case will not resolve short of a trial," they wrote in a federal filing in Delaware.

Persons: David Weiss, General Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's, Hunter Biden, Garland, Weiss, Donald Trump, Hunter Biden's Organizations: Department of Justice Locations: Wilmington, Del . WASHINGTON — U.S, Delaware, U.S

Jake Sullivan, White House national security adviser, speaks during an interview at an Economic Club of Washington event in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 14, 2022. The White House described the meeting between Biden's national security advisor Jake Sullivan and China's top diplomat Wang Yi as "candid, substantive and constructive." The White House said it aims to keep up open communication with China, as Washington increasingly sharpens its rhetoric around Beijing's policies around the globe. The White House has said that it has not observed Beijing providing military assistance to the Kremlin for its fight in Ukraine. Such brinksmanship weakens our national security," the former Pentagon chiefs wrote in a letter.

☆ Companies that give up stock buybacks for 5 years will get preferential treatment in $52 billion CHIPS program, Commerce Secretary Raimondo says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Chelsey Cox | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said companies that voluntarily agree to forgo stock buybacks for five years will get preferential treatment when the agency doles out $52 billion authorized under the CHIPS and Science Act. Raimondo said stock buybacks is one factor being taken into consideration as part of a $39 billion manufacturing subsidy program. The law also creates a 25% investment tax credit for building chip plants, estimated to be worth $24 billion. Beyond that, we're giving a preference to companies who voluntarily say they won't do a buyback for five years," Raimondo told CNBC's Sara Eisen on Monday. The Commerce Department began accepting applications for CHIPS funding at the end of February.

"We don't yet know what these three objects were, but nothing right now suggests that they were related to China's spy balloon program or that they surveillance vehicles from any other country," Biden said at the White House. "At the end of the day, their surveillance balloon was indeed in our airspace," she said. Less than a week after the spy balloon was destroyed, the first of three more objects was taken down in waters above the Arctic Ocean on Friday. The size of a small car and floating at 40,000 feet, this object was much smaller than the Chinese balloon. As of Thursday, the White House says it has recovered key surveillance technology from the Chinese balloon.

WASHINGTON — U.S. House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., lost a seventh vote for House speaker Thursday, despite conceding to several new demands from his far-right opponents. An eighth vote was expected, although there were few signs that McCarthy's fortunes would improve. "I think everyone in the conversation wants to find a solution," McCarthy said on his way into the House chamber for the vote. With 222 Republicans in the House, he can't afford to lose more than four votes. Ahead of Thursday's votes, Democratic Party leaders berated Republicans for the party's dysfunction, and emphasized the harm that going days without a House speaker was inflicting on the legislative branch and the nation.

☆ McCarthy's struggle to lock down House Speaker roils GOP caucus, delays key committee assignments
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

A spokesman for McCarthy did not respond to questions from CNBC about the committee vote schedule. Instead, both sides have dug in over the past week, telling reporters they're ready to take the fight all the way to the House floor on Jan. 3. "Oh yeah, I'll take the speaker's fight to the floor," McCarthy told reporters in the Capitol recently. "The goal was never to embarrass Kevin McCarthy on the [House] floor, no one wants that," she said. It also prompted McCarthy to issue a long statement condemning her prior remarks, which he said "do not represent the values or beliefs of House Republicans."

☆ Biden sees no need for 'a new Cold War' with China after three hour meeting with Xi Jinping
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Christina Wilkie | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden said there "need not be a new Cold War" between the U.S. and China, following a three hour summit meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Indonesia on Monday. Biden also said he doesn't "think there's any imminent attempt by China to invade Taiwan," despite escalating rhetoric and aggressive military moves by the P.R.C. Biden and his counterpart held the much anticipated meeting on the sidelines of the G20 meeting of global economically developed nations in Bali. Biden said he and Xi spoke frankly, and they agreed to send diplomats and cabinet members from their administrations to meet with one another in person to resolve pressing issues.

☆ Capitol Police had a camera feed of Pelosi's home during attack, but no one was monitoring it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Garrett-Haake-Headshot.Jpg | Garrett Haake | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police had a camera feed showing the outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., home in San Francisco during the attack on her husband Friday, but no one was monitoring it at the time, two sources familiar with the situation said. The camera is one of about 1,800 at the Capitol complex and around the country that the Capitol Police have the ability to monitor. The Washington Post first reported no one was actively watching the camera feed when the break-in occurred early Friday morning. Pelosi was in Washington, D.C., at the time her husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked. I came here to have a little chat with his wife,” DePape said he told Paul Pelosi, the filing alleges.

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