A court filing released Tuesday suggests Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.), who has been indicted four times for his alleged role in a bribery scheme, is poised to blame his wife for involving him in the scandal. The New Jersey Democrat’s attorneys intend to demonstrate the “absence of any improper intent on Senator Menendez’s part”
Washington senator has slowed TikTok bill’s passage through Congress Sen. Maria Cantwell (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Sen. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), the head of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee, took thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a TikTok lobbyist just days after the House passed its bipartisan bill targeting the Chinese-owned app, new financial disclosures
Vivian Hunt, an ex-McKinsey consultant who has argued meritocracy ‘isn’t good enough,’ will serve as president of the Harvard Board of Overseers Vivian Hunt (John Phillips/Getty Images) Harvard University on Monday tapped an ex-McKinsey consultant who has criticized meritocracy and published controversial research on the benefits of diversity in business to help select the university’s
Columbia found to have highest number of incidents among schools tracked Anti-Israel protest at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses spiked 320 percent last year, with more than three-fourths of them in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents
Osama Siblani serves as a ‘sounding board’ for Team Biden, according to AP Osama Siblani at the White House (Osama Siblani/Facebook). The White House this month sought advice from Arab-American activist Osama Siblani regarding President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, ignoring Jewish groups’ concerns about Siblani’s history of anti-Israel rhetoric and his praise
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday killed another Hezbollah commander, striking a blow to the Iran-backed terrorist group as the Jewish state weighs its response to Iran’s Saturday missile attack, according to the Jerusalem Post. The IDF on Tuesday said it had killed Ismail Yusef Baz, who served in the Lebanese terrorist group for decades
Rep. David Trone (D., Md.) made history Tuesday, becoming the largest self-funder in Senate primary history. Trone, the co-owner of the multibillion-dollar liquor chain Total Wine & More, has loaned $41.7 million to his campaign for Maryland’s open Senate seat since launching his run in March 2023, Federal Election Commission filings show. The Maryland Democrat’s