The White House reportedly canceled a meeting with Israeli officials the day after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out the Biden administration for the “inconceivable” decision to withhold munitions from Israel. Senior U.S. and Israeli officials were set to meet at the White House on Thursday to discuss Iran’s nuclear capabilities. But that changed after
George W. Cook III served as the top legislative aide to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.) while she pushed a historic billion-dollar funding package that has largely been leveraged for electric vehicle projects. Now, according to state filings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Cook is a senior lobbyist for General Motors, the Detroit-based automaker that
Bipartisan consensus grows over oversight of experiments on dangerous viruses. The blame is on the Chinese regime no matter how COVID-19 arose, said Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah). “Whether it was from a wet market, or the Wuhan lab, China’s to blame. Both those things were in China,” he said at a Senate Homeland Security and
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Tuesday approved a new $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan, sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material, the State Department said in a statement that is sure to draw condemnation from China. The announcement was not unexpected but it comes at a time of high
The Washington Post is in turmoil—old editor out, new editor in, and a new publisher under siege from a hostile and beleaguered staff. One of the criticisms the paper has weathered as it has bled money and subscribers is that, since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, its coverage of the war in the
Bread & Roses Community Fund, flush with cash from Bezos’s ex-wife, honors Philly Palestine Coalition with ‘Victory is Ours Award’ Penn anti-Semitic protesters, Ben Franklin statue (Sawerchessread/Wikimedia Commons) MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, awarded a $2 million grant to a Philadelphia-based community fund with ties to the Philly Palestine Coalition, the
Several of the contests will almost certainly affect the composition of the 119th Congress. Primary contests were held in several states on June 18, with most national attention turning toward Virginia. In the Old Dominion State, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-Va.) is in the political fight of his life against state Sen. John McGuire.