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AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has subpoenaed a number of Washington lobbying firms as part of its investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the 2016 election in his favor, The Washington Post reported on Friday. The firms that were subpoenaed have been associated with consulting firms […]
Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary said European air companies are campaigning with EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier to slow down talks on air travel agreements after the UK leaves the EU in 2019. Speaking to BBC Newsnight, O’Leary discussed the frustration of British airlines with the lack of clarity on whether they’ll be allowed to continue […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A Democratic watchdog group claimed Thursday that EPA administrator Scott Pruitt illegally lobbied against the Paris climate accord before President Donald Trump eventually backed out of the non-binding agreement. The American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) complaining Pruitt violated an obscure lobbying law prohibiting federal […]
– We were headed south on Interstate 395 leaving Washington, D.C., when Kaushik Raghu, principal engineer of Audi’s autonomous driving program, pressed a button on the steering wheel to engage one of the most sophisticated self-driving systems being tested today. A band of turquoise-colored lights across the top of the dashboard illuminated, a chime sounded, […]
US military veterans are being sent on all-expenses paid trips to Washington on the Saudi government’s dime to lobby against the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) that allows victims of 9/11 to sue foreign governments, the New York Post reports. A number of veterans have told the New York Post that they were […]
Enlarge / David Plouffe (credit: Warren Little/Getty Images) Chicago’s Board of Ethics is handing a former Uber executive a $ 90,000 fine for illegally lobbying the city’s mayor over ride-sharing privileges at the city’s two airports. On Thursday, the ethics panel voted 5-0 to levy the fine on David Plouffe, who was Barack Obama’s former campaign […]
