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
With less than five months until the general election, President Biden announced sweeping federal action that will give undocumented spouses of American citizens who have lived in the United States at least 10 years a new path to permanent residency and, in time, legal citizenship. The plan could not only bring citizenship to some 500,000
A Texas doctor who calls himself a whistleblower on transgender care for minors is accused of illegally obtaining private information on patients from the nation’s largest pediatric hospital who were not under his care. Federal prosecutors said Dr. Eithan Haim, a 34-year-old surgeon, snatched the information and shared it with a conservative activist with “intent
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