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Do giant tech companies require more oversight?

We’re now five days into the partial government shutdown. While the Senate is expected to reconvene Thursday and resume negotiations over how to end the shutdown, odds are that it’ll continue into January. The impasse is already cutting into the supply of something that is essential to just about every market out there: federal economic data. […]

Congress is changing. And so is its attitude toward tech.

The ads tell the story as Democrats and Republicans work to ease voters' fears about pre-existing conditions.

The ads tell the story as Democrats and Republicans work to ease voters' fears about pre-existing conditions.

Fundamental questions about workplace diversity and privilege are playing out in Congress as the Judiciary Committee meets to consider the Supreme Court nomination.

Facebook’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, and Twitter’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, testified before the Senate intelligence committee.

With hundreds of first-time candidates on the ballot across the country this year, many are learning the ropes of campaigning as they go.

The rules aren't likely to be resurrected soon. But the Senate vote did accomplish something.

The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau talks about the agency's decision to fine Wells Fargo.