New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) on Tuesday announced he wants to overhaul the city’s sanctuary laws amid a massive surge in asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, retreating from his promise on the campaign trail that New York would “remain a sanctuary city” under his administration. The Big Apple’s sanctuary laws prohibit local agencies
Senate Republicans want to strip the Biden administration of its power to skirt federal anti-terrorism laws in order to pump millions in taxpayer funding into the Palestinian territories, including the war-torn Gaza Strip, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The legislation, led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and three of his Republican colleagues, is
Senate Democrats greenlit President Joe Biden’s renomination of Julie Su as labor secretary in a closed-door, party-line vote Tuesday, sparking criticism from Republicans that the secretive vote has forestalled any further vetting of the controversial nominee. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I.), who leads the Senate Labor Committee, sent notice of the vote on Monday, noting
Hamas, along with some prominent left-wingers in the United States, this week valorized an airman who lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in protest of the Jewish state’s war in Gaza—with the terror group saying he would live “immortal” in Palestinian memory. “The heroic pilot Aaron Bushnell will
Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.) canceled an upcoming appearance at a fundraiser for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an anti-Israel group whose leader recently praised Hamas’s attack on Israel. The Washington Free Beacon reported last week that Lee was slated to speak at a CAIR fundraiser on March 2, and
The White House and President Joe Biden’s campaign team are reportedly in panic mode over an effort in Michigan urging Democratic voters to protest his handling of the Israel-Hamas war by voting “Uncommitted” in the state’s Tuesday presidential primary. “They are freaking out about the uncommitted vote,” a Democrat close to Biden said of the
After President Joe Biden on Monday suggested that a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas was imminent, several parties in the negotiations appeared to cast doubt on his comment. “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close,” Biden told reporters in New York. “We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope