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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) For the first time since 1923, the U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday to elect a new speaker on the initial ballot, signaling the start of what could be a fractious, days-long drama to find a Republican successor to former Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. But for Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, Calif. — the Republican leader who was also… Source link

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy arrives for a meeting with House Republicans at the Capitol on Tuesday. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) For the first time since 1923, the U.S. House of Representatives failed Tuesday to elect a new speaker on the initial ballot, signaling the start of what could be a fractious, days-long drama to find a Republican successor to former Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. But for Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield, Calif. — the Republican leader who was also… Source link

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack swears in witnesses on July 12, 2022. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters) After a year and a half of work, the House committee investigating the events of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is set to hold its final hearing and issue a report on its findings. Over the course of 10 public hearings, the panel heard from a wide swath of witnesses who showed how former President Donald… Source link

Google Maps can be a useful tool for getting you where you need to go, but it can also be a risk to your privacy. While using Street View on Google Maps, you can get a 360 degree view of any area on the map, including views of the outside of people’s homes. As Nelson Aguilar writes for CNET, Street View “makes it easier for stalkers or criminals to plan their way inside your home.” Would-be-criminals could look at your home for cameras or possible… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance app for Apple or Android.Yahoo Finance App. Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former CEO of FTX, has had a bad… Source link

Los Angeles-based YouTubers Kristen and Michael knew their only chance at buying an income-generating property during the pandemic was to venture into the California desert. Last year the couple bought and renovated a 2 bed-1 bath ranch near Joshua Tree National Park. The couple, who asked to go by their first names only, listed it on short term rental platform Airbnb (ABNB) as “Seventh Ray House.” “Even during the slow months, even during the summer, we got booked over every weekend,”… Source link

Los Angeles-based YouTubers Kristen and Michael knew their only chance at buying an income-generating property during the pandemic was to venture into the California desert. Last year the couple bought and renovated a 2 bed-1 bath ranch near Joshua Tree National Park. The couple, who asked to go by their first names only, listed it on short term rental platform Airbnb (ABNB) as “Seventh Ray House.” “Even during the slow months, even during the summer, we got booked over every weekend,”… Source link

Adam Cahan and 1110 Green Street (Getty Images, Zillow) Former Yahoo executive and current cannabis vape company CEO Adam Cahan is selling the Russian Hill home he bought less than three years ago, asking $13 million for the 4,800-square-foot property. He purchased the fully renovated “Sky House” for $10 million just before the pandemic began, according to public records. Built in the early 1980s, the home received a years-long studs-out remodel from developer Jeremy Ricks. Marketed as… Source link

If Dennis Rodman received “approval” for his plan to travel to Russia and help secure Brittney Griner’s release, it doesn’t look like it came from the White House. An anonymous senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration has told Reuters the White House is not a fan of Rodman’s plan, and believe it could actually hurt Griner’s chances of being released. “It is public information that the administration has made a significant offer to the Russians and anything other than negotiating… Source link

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director has named Google executive Camille Stewart Gloster as a deputy national cyber director focused on workforce programs and supply chain security issues, according to an administration official familiar with the hire. The big picture: Stewart Gloster’s hire comes as the one-year-old National Cyber Director’s office continues to fill out its roughly 50-person staff. In May, CNN reported that the office had hired a former Microsoft… Source link