U.S. senators push banks for information on Russian 'oligarchs'

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the nomination on a party-line vote, with all 11 Republicans backing him, nine Democrats opposed and one Democrat, Chris Coons, voting 'present' because one Republican was at a funeral out of town.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally testified in front of a Senate joint committee in an event that was followed closely by both tech and political circles. The interaction which lasted a massive five hours saw forty-four US senators from various states ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began a two-day congressional inquisition today with a public apology for a privacy scandal that has roiled the social media giant he founded more than a decade ago.Zuckerberg opened his remarks before the Senate Commerce and ...

Trump had told Republican senators earlier in the day that he had asked United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow to re-open negotiations

The hearings that ended on Wednesday revealed no consensus among US lawmakers about what kind of privacy legislation they might want to pursue, if any, and no timeline for action Reuters | Washington/San Francisco Last Updated at April 12, 2018 07:09 IST ...

Senator Marco Rubio applauded the strikes for preventing Syria's Assad regime from using chemical weapons Press Trust of India | Washington Last Updated at April 14, 2018 19:17 IST FILE PHOTO: US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP | PTI) "Mission ...

Facebook systems do not see the content of messages being transmitted over WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg has told the senators, while testifying before them in connection with Facebook's data breach scandal and foreign interference in election.This confirmation ...

Senator Lindsey Graham asks Zuckerberg whether Facebook is a monopoly."It certainly doesn't feel like that to me," Zuckerberg replies, to chuckles.To that Graham said, "Why should we let you self-regulate?"Zuckerberg said, "I think the real question is what is the right regulation?"He further said that Facebook will provide Graham's office with suggestions for good regulations. ...

Zuckerberg testified before the senators and a House panel amid uproar over the alleged hijacking of data of millions of Facebook users by British firm Cambridge Analytica. WASHINGTON: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said that his company will do ...