White House Skirts Idea of Biden Passing a House-Passed Ukraine Bill With Funds Given as a Loan

White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre insisted at a Monday press briefing that President Joe Biden wants the house to pass the Ukraine spending and border legislation proposal sent down by the Senate. Ms. Jean-Pierre was asked by a reporter about house speaker Mike Johnson’s floating the idea that some of the aid money goi… Original

Investigation Links Russian Hit Squad to US Officials’ ‘Havana Syndrome’

A Russian intelligence unit that specializes in assassinations may be behind “Havana syndrome,” a mysterious condition that afflicted U.S. diplomats, according to a report. A joint investigation by CBS’s 60 Minutes, along with Der Spiegel and The Insider, revealed links between Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 and suspected attacks on U.S. government officials both in the

Judges, witnesses in Jan. 6 cases warn of threats to democracy in 2024 elections

In early March, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly looked at 23-year-old Clifford Mackrell, a Jan. 6 defendant from Ohio, and as she sentenced him to 27 months in prison for his role in the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, she read a statement warning about the fragility of democracy. “We have an election coming,” Kollar-Kotelly said.

‘No Stopping Until Liberation’: MIT Faculty Member Urges Followers To Shut Down Israeli Company in Cambridge

Afif Aqrabawi went on anti-Semitic tirade after congressional committee requested anti-Semitism docs from school Afif Aqrabawi (Twitter), MIT (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member who last month went on an anti-Semitic tirade—in which he called House Education and the Workforce Committee chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.) a “treasonous Zionist tool” and

Judge Releases Migrants Who Overwhelmed Texas National Guard in Border Stampede

An El Paso judge on Sunday ordered Texas authorities to release some of the illegal immigrants accused of rushing the southern border and overwhelming the state’s National Guard troops last month.  “It is the ruling of the court that all the rioting participation cases will be released on their own recognizance,” Magistrate Judge Humberto Acosta

Israel Takes Out Iranian Commander in Syria Strike: Report

Israeli warplanes struck the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Monday, and a Lebanese security source told Reuters a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, had been killed in the attack. Reuters reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from rubble of a