‘The China of 30 years ago is very different than the China today, even five years ago; they’ve become more aggressive at home, abroad, militarily.’ Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), the incoming chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said confronting China’s aggression will be among his priorities upon assuming the
The White House on Friday announced it will cancel another $7.4 billion in student loan debt, the latest in a string of loan forgiveness initiatives as President Joe Biden looks to take on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump this fall. “Today, President Biden announced that 277,000 more Americans will get their student debt canceled, bringing
Democratic representative Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), who is running for U.S. Senate, hasn’t resided in the district she represents for nearly a year—a living arrangement that could complicate her efforts to paint her Republican opponent as a carpetbagger. Slotkin moved out of Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District in the summer of 2023, months after she was elected
‘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