Chinese Embassy officials met with congressional staffers to lobby against a bill that would force TikTok’s sale to a non-Chinese company, Politico reported Wednesday. The Capitol Hill staffers—one working in the House and the other in the Senate—said the Chinese Embassy initiated the meetings with them, where its diplomats downplayed the national security concerns with
‘The buck stops with me,’ Eugene Vindman says after top Democrat calls him ‘ignorant’ (X/Twitter) Virginia Democratic congressional candidate Eugene Vindman called to change the Virginia state flag while apologizing for posing with the flag of Virginia’s Civil War-era Confederate government. “The buck stops with me,” Vindman said in his apology. Vindman issued the apology
Brian Murphy served on the board of a group that pushed to free inmates because of ‘structural racism’ Brian Murphy (Senate Judiciary Committee/Twitter) At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) introduced Biden judicial nominee Brian Murphy as a “staunch and committed advocate” for fairness in the criminal justice system. Murphy’s advocacy includes
The Biden administration on Monday confirmed that the Afghan suicide bomber who killed more than a dozen U.S. service members at the Kabul airport in 2021 had been freed from a prison abandoned during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas) in a Monday statement said a
Former president’s longtime friend, Columbia professor Rashid Khalidi, warned Israel supporters would ‘infest’ the Trump admin The co-chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees, Claire Shipman, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the proliferation of anti-Semitism on the school’s Manhattan campus is “shocking.” Shipman’s husband, Jay Carney, served as press secretary under former president
Chemical weapons are typically associated with Middle Eastern warzones, not Ivy League colleges. So when one of them was allegedly deployed at Columbia University, it ignited a media frenzy. Pro-Palestinian protesters told the Columbia Spectator they had been sprayed with “skunk,” a crowd-control chemical developed by the Israeli Defense Forces, at a rally in January.
It seems not even a criminal investigation can stop Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.) from spending campaign cash on her husband. Bush paid $15,000 to her husband, Cortney Merritts, during the first three months of 2024, a Federal Election Commission filing released Monday shows. Merritts is at the center of a Department of Justice investigation