Category: Federal

November 20, 2020

The World Health Organization recommended against using Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients less than a month after U.S. regulators granted the drug a speedy approval. “There is currently no evidence that it improves survival or the […]

November 19, 2020

Health insurance companies will have to give their customers estimated out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs and disclose to the public the negotiated prices they pay for drugs, under an unexpected new Trump administration rule. The administration said those requirements, part […]

November 18, 2020

Chris Krebs, one of the most senior cybersecurity officials in the U.S. government, has been fired. Krebs served as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since its founding in November 2018 until he was removed from […]

November 18, 2020

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is pushing ahead with a plan that threatens to kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges, setting up a late clash between Washington and Beijing as the Trump administration winds down. By the end […]

November 17, 2020

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies is selling its budget smartphone carrier Honor to a group of Honor resellers and suppliers to shield the brand from U.S. sanctions that have starved Huawei of semiconductor chips. In a statement announcing the sale […]

November 17, 2020

The new head of the House Homeland Security Committee’s panel on cybersecurity said Tuesday that federal lawmakers need to do more to help organizations, especially state and local governments, protect themselves against ransomware. Speaking during the Cyber Threat Alliance’s CyberNext […]

November 16, 2020

Following nationwide elections, a new line-up of state lawmakers will be joining their veteran peers to dig into a host of cybersecurity issues during 2021. Since March, many, if not most, cybersecurity issues at the state level have been derailed […]

November 16, 2020

The two runoff elections in January to choose Georgia’s senators could have a direct effect on the bank balances of companies nationwide. That’s because Georgia’s voters will determine which party controls the Senate, which in turn will heavily influence whether […]

November 16, 2020

President Donald Trump is coming to grips with his re-election defeat, according to aides and advisers, even as he continues to publicly discredit the outcome and delay the start of the official transition to President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. Trump began […]

November 13, 2020

The fate of TikTok in the United States got even more confusing this week. The U.S. Justice and Commerce Departments sent conflicting messages today about TikTok’s future, which is now up in the air with the upcoming administration transition. The […]