A Chinese biotechnology company linked to the Chinese Communist Party has hired the lobbying firm of Sen. Bob Casey’s (D., Pa.) brother as it fights legislation that would restrict its business in the United States over national security concerns. WuXi AppTec hired Dentons Global Advisors last month to lobby on “federal matters regarding biotechnology,” according
A new poll this week shows Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.), a “Squad” member known for his anti-Israel stance, is down 17 points in his bid for a third House term. Westchester County executive George Latimer (D.) is leading Bowman 52 percent to 35 percent among Democratic primary voters in New York’s 16th Congressional District,
Tareq Baconi says Israel’s ‘regime of oppression’ to blame for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack Tareq Baconi (Institute for Palestine Studies) Harvard University invited a Hamas apologist, who has described the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack as “anti-colonial violence” that was “inevitable” and motivated by “oppression,” to speak on its campus. The event, slated to take
Rep. Eric Sorensen (D., Ill.) is praising an LGBT clinic in his district that is raising funds to administer sex change drugs to minors, applauding the nonprofit for providing vital “health care” that helps his district “thrive.” Sorensen has fiercely defended transgender treatments for minors, even as those treatments have faced increasing scrutiny from medical
A group of Republican senators on Wednesday opened a probe into the Biden administration’s decision to unlock upwards of $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian government, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. The 13 lawmakers, led by Sen. Tim Scott (R., S.C.), are pressing the State and Treasury Departments to detail exactly how
When public hospitals purchase medical equipment or rely on outside doctors, they typically consider the price and quality of each vendor. In Tarrant County, Texas, they consider something else, too: the race and gender of the vendor’s owners. Tarrant County’s public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale that gives
Golden State governor’s Lake Tahoe cafe advertises job openings at $16 an hour (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) California’s fast food franchisees must hike their minimum wage to $20 an hour under a law Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) hailed as “extraordinarily beneficial.” His own luxury restaurants, meanwhile, are paying their workers less. Active job listings for Newsom’s