2019 November

Catherine Zeta-Jones Celebrates Her Shared Birthday with Michael Douglas on Instagram

You can’t get much more in sync than Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. The pair, who married in November 2000, not only share a life and two kids, they also share a Sept. 25 birthday! Zeta-Jones celebrated the occasion (she turned 47 and he turned 72) on Instagram Sunday with a sweet message to her longtime […]

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Bella Hadid Jets to Jamaica with Girlfriends

Bella Hadid just did spring break like no other. The younger Hadid sister grabbed a few pals and took a private jet to Jamaica on Saturday for some serious R&R. And the trip was the epitome of lavish before they even landed on the island. Bella posted an envy-inspiring Instagram of herself standing beside the […]

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Roger Stone jury ends first day of deliberation without a verdict

The jury in Roger StoneRoger Jason StoneRoger Stone jury ends first day of deliberation without a verdict Jury set to begin deliberating in Stone trial Former InfoWars conspiracist appeals after judge tosses .6M suit against Mueller, CIA MORE‘s criminal trial ended its first day of deliberations Thursday without reaching a verdict on the longtime Trump […]

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Senate Foreign Relations chair: 'Best' not to pass Turkey sanctions bill 'at this moment'

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim RischJames (Jim) Elroy RischOvernight Defense: Erdoğan gets earful from GOP senators | Amazon to challenge Pentagon cloud contract decision in court | Lawmakers under pressure to pass benefits fix for military families Senate Foreign Relations chair: ‘Best’ not to pass Turkey sanctions bill ‘at this moment’ Erdoğan gets earful […]

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Amazon to challenge Pentagon's 'war cloud' decision in federal court

Amazon is taking the battle over the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud-computing contract to federal court.  Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to challenge the Pentagon’s surprising decision to award the contract to Microsoft in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) official told The Hill on Thursday.  “Numerous aspects of the JEDI evaluation process […]

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Hillicon Valley: Amazon to challenge Pentagon cloud contract in court | State antitrust investigation into Google expands | Intel agencies no longer collecting location data without warrant

Welcome to Hillicon Valley, The Hill’s newsletter detailing all you need to know about the tech and cyber news from Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley. If you don’t already, be sure to sign up for our newsletter with this LINK. Welcome! Follow the cyber team, Maggie Miller (@magmill95), and the tech team, Emily Birnbaum (@birnbaum_e) […]

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Lawmaker demands answers from administration over land agency's headquarters relocation

The top Democrat on the House committee that oversees the Interior Department is demanding answers on the reasoning behind the forthcoming relocation of nearly 250 federal employees out West. Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, sent two letters Thursday asking for answers about the Interior Department’s (DOI) anticipated plan to ship […]

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Intelligence agencies have stopped collecting cellphone data without warrants: letter

Intelligence agencies have not collected any GPS records or other cell-site location data (CSLI) without a warrant since a 2018 Supreme Court decision involving cellphone privacy, according to a letter sent to Sen. Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenHillicon Valley: Amazon to challenge Pentagon cloud contract in court | State antitrust investigation into Google expands | […]

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Jury set to begin deliberating in Stone trial

The jury in Roger Stone’s criminal trial is set to begin deliberating after hearing closing arguments from federal prosecutors and the right-wing political operative’s defense team on Wednesday. The two sides traded closing shots in the trial over whether Stone lied to lawmakers about his communications with the Trump campaign as well as those he saw […]

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Erdoğan gets earful from GOP senators at White House

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan got an earful from a handful of GOP senators during a White House meeting this week.  Republican senators said they raised concerns about Turkey’s military incursion into northern Syria against Kurds and the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-allied rebel group, while also objecting to Ankara’s reliance on a Russian military system. Two GOP senators who attended the meeting […]

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