As Wall Street financiers snapped up huge swaths of the nation’s rental housing market in recent years, the deals sailed through unchallenged. Now, with the costs of renting an apartment or home out of reach for a growing number of...
Following 21 months of record gun violence that has left at least 55 people dead in Hampden County, a Springfield police officer blinded in one eye and the seizure of more than 620 firearms, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is...
Congressional Democrats Tuesday pressed the Department of Homeland Security to clear a backlog of 1.4 million work permit applications for migrants before the end of the year. Despite several policy changes to address wait times at US Citizenship and Immigration...
Three Democratic senators are asking McDonald’s about its menu price hikes in recent years, arguing that the increases are higher than they should be – even with inflation and rising operating costs. In a letter sent late Monday afternoon, Sens....
A group of Democratic lawmakers are urging the Justice Department to prosecute tax prep companies accused of improperly sharing user information with Meta and Google through their advertising pixels. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) have introduced legislation that would require pharmaceutical companies that have entered settlement agreements over violating federal law to invest a portion of their profits into key agencies. Titled the “Medical Innovation...
Thirty-two Democratic lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to use his remaining time in office to draw on an array of executive branch agencies to rein in housing costs. “We strongly encourage you to cement your legacy by addressing one...
Twenty-one instructors in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program were accused of sexual misconduct against high school cadets in the 2022-23 school year, but the Pentagon enacted several congressionally mandated reforms this year to curb the issue, the department...
Ahead of her first debate with her Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office is out with a new report that shows hundreds of millions in savings for Medicare beneficiaries in the Bay State. According to the report, by next...
A group of mostly Democrats pressed Federal Trade Commission (FT) Chair Lina Khan this week for more information on how a federal price gouging ban could help “hold bad actors accountable” in the event of major disasters like Hurricane Helene....
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked antitrust regulators to closely scrutinize a $16.5 billion deal in which Novo Nordisk’s (NOVOb.CO), controlling shareholder would acquire contract drug manufacturer Catalent (CTLT.N), saying it may give the pharmaceutical company an unlawful advantage in...
Members of the US Senate finance committee are demanding tougher enforcement action against accounting firms after a sustained increase in the number of flaws found in their audit work. Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse said deficiency rates that...