Twitter to ban all political ads amid 2020 election uproar
Twitter on Wednesday said it would ban all advertisements about political candidates, elections and hot-button policy issues such as abortion and immigration, a significant shift that comes in response to growing concerns that politicians are seizing on the vast reach of social media to deceive voters ahead of the 2020 election. Continue reading in The Washington Post.
House passes resolution formalizing impeachment inquiry
The House of Representatives voted Thursday 232-196 to pass a resolution formalizing its impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Amid the debate, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called it a “sad day.” Continue reading at KUOW.org.
Newly public Boeing documents cite ‘catastrophic’ 737 scenario
In a tense and revelatory hearing Wednesday, a U.S. House committee presented startling new evidence from internal Boeing documents showing that, before the first 737 Max crash in 2018, some company engineers had discovered that a failure in a new flight-control system could be “potentially catastrophic” — information that was dismissed and never communicated to regulators. Continue reading in the Everett Herald.
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WATCH: House votes on next steps in impeachment inquiry
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U.S. House Passes Resolution Formalizing Impeachment Inquiry
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