‘If the CCP takes the drastic action of advancing on Taiwan, we must proactively prepare our national economy,’ said Rep. Ritchie Torres. House lawmakers have introduced bipartisan legislation to develop an economic strategy aimed at mitigating “the catastrophic economic fallout” resulting from a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The legislation titled the “Fortifying U.S. Markets
Mr. Johnson said there will be wider repercussions if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene succeeds in her effort to oust him. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned that attempts to remove him as speaker of the House could result in the position being occupied by a Democrat or remaining vacant for potentially a “long amount of time.”
The Justice Department issued a statement on the matters. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to resolve “inconsistencies” in how her office reports federal funding, a spokesperson for the federal department said this week. Earlier this year, reports emerged that a former Fulton County employee revealed that
UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk earlier this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of “revolutionary suicide,” raising concerns from prominent doctors and deepening a public relations crisis that has embroiled the elite medical school. The talk, “Depathologizing Resistance,” was delivered on April 2 by two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda
An amendment to insert a warrant requirement to the surveillance power was defeated in a rare tied vote. The House on April 12 passed a revised version of a bill to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. This came two days after conservatives blocked the advancement of another
A photo op was worth a thousand words for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday as he stood alongside former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, presenting a united front at a critical time in Johnson’s tenure to announce a new GOP “election integrity” bill. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president,
The House Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 9:00 a.m. ET on April 12 to review the fiscal year 2025 budget request for missile defense and missile defeat programs. Witnesses: John D. Hill, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space and Missile Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Lt. Gen.