Anti-Israel hecklers crashed a Tuesday dinner that U.C. Berkeley’s Jewish law school dean hosted for graduating students, days after activists circulated a blood libel cartoon targeting the dean and referencing the planned dinner. Malak Afaneh, the head of Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine, stood in the midst of the backyard dinner hosted by law
Washington — A roughly hourlong meeting with House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday did little to convince Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to drop her threat of forcing a vote that could end his speakership. “I got a lot of excuses,” Greene, a Georgia Republican, told reporters after she met with Johnson on Wednesday afternoon, their
Miguel Cardona says the agency will announce soon its rules on gender/biology, student sports teams, and locker rooms. Tensions were high as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona testified before the House Appropriations Committee on April 10 regarding the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) budget requests for fiscal year 2025. Republicans grilled Mr. Cardona over the department’s
President Joe Biden last week pressed for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to pursue a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, calling Netanyahu’s campaign against Hamas a “mistake.” “I think what [Netanyahu] is doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” Biden said in an interview that aired Tuesday on Univision. “What I’m calling
Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) is standing by the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, even as the Democrat-controlled Senate appears poised to quickly dismiss the case. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives impeached Mr. Mayorkas in February on two articles alleging he has engaged in a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with” U.S.
Washington — A bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program was blocked Wednesday by a conservative revolt in the House, pushing the prospects of final passage into uncertainty amid a looming deadline. The legislative impasse also follows an edict earlier in the day from former President Donald Trump to “kill” the measure.
No further details have been publicized. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and former President Donald Trump are scheduled to hold a joint press conference on April 12 regarding “election integrity,” a source familiar with the matter told The Epoch Times. CNN first reported the joint presser, which will be at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in