"May I suggest, respectfully, Ticketmaster ought to look in the mirror and say, 'I'm the problem, it's me,' " — Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Senators held their much-anticipated hearing on live event tickets, following a fiasco late last year over ticket presales for Taylor Swift's upcoming concert tour. During the Tuesday hearing, senators from both sides of the aisle grilled Live Nation Entertainment's Joe Berchtold over claims that that bots were to blame for the meltdown. Read more here. |
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Welcome to Evening Report! I'm Elizabeth Crisp, catching you up from the afternoon and what's coming tomorrow. Not on the list? Subscribe here. |
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- Rupert Murdoch has dropped his bid to combine News Corp and Fox Corp, four months after floating the idea.
Senators on both sides of the aisle were bewildered by news that classified documents were at former Vice President Pence's Indiana home.
Twitter has reinstated the account of Nick Fuentes, a far-right figure who embraces antisemitic and white supremacist views.
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Harris to travel to California in wake of shootings
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Vice President Harris will head to California this week after two mass shootings left nearly 20 people dead in her home state. Harris will be in Los Angeles on Wednesday, where 11 people were killed and nine were wounded Saturday during Lunar New Year festivities. A separate suspect later fatally shot seven people in San Mateo County. |
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💸 Biden: GOP won't wreck Social Security, Medicare
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President Biden hammered Republicans Tuesday over proposals to cut federal social safety-net programs.
Biden was meeting at the White House with Democratic congressional leaders.
"I love their 30 percent sales tax," the president said. "We want to talk a lot about that but I have no intention of letting the Republicans wreck our economy, nor does anybody around this table in my view." He added that Republicans "apparently are genuinely serious about cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare." |
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👋 McConnell to GOP House: On your own
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he isn't going to take the lead in upcoming negotiations over the federal debt limit. Any deal to avoid a default will have to come from the GOP-controlled House, he says. |
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🔭 The Webb telescope has been blowing our minds for a year
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was years behind schedule and cost billions, but it has given us some amazing images. Look through the top ones here. |
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📩 Virtual Event Invitation from The Hill
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Expanding Adult Vaccine Access: 1 p.m. Thursday. With respiratory illnesses continuing to put pressure on health care facilities nationwide, the importance of vaccines has once again taken center stage. A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report suggests that vaccination rates fell during the pandemic and have not gotten back to
pre-pandemic levels. CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) and Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) join The Hill to discuss what can be done. RSVP and save your spot. |
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🏈 Save up if you want Super Bowl tickets
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Wanna go to the Super Bowl next month? The matchup isn't even set yet, but ticket prices are already eye popping. The cheapest Super Bowl tickets are running at about $5,000. |
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"Where the Supreme Court's Dobbs leak investigation went wrong" — Gregory J. Wallance, writer and former federal prosecutor. (Read here) "Human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. How do we fight It?" — Scott Liles, CEO of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. (Read here) |
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The House and Senate will be in at 10 a.m. Later this week: The House will a debate a bill that would stop the president from tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve without increasing drilling on federal land. |
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