West Virginia senator Joe Manchin, a 2021 Washington Free Beacon Man of the Year, said on Friday that he has registered as an independent, leaving the Democratic Party after more than four decades. “To stay true to myself and remain committed to put country before party, I have decided to register as an independent with
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D,. Texas) and his wife Imelda have been charged with accepting and laundering more than half a million dollars in foreign bribes, according to an indictment released by the Department of Justice on Friday. Cuellar and his wife allegedly pocketed “at least $598,000 in bribes from two foreign entities”: an oil and
Biden judicial nominee Amir H. Ali in November received a “Justice Tribute” award from an Arab-American civil rights group that supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and whose board member has praised Hamas and other terrorist groups. The Arab American Civil Rights League, based in Dearborn, Michigan, has called for boycotts of the
A viral clip of an interview with President Joe Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein shows the official struggling to explain why the U.S. government chooses to borrow money when it can just print more. “The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money … by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They
The U.S. labor market in April added fewer jobs and saw slower wage growth than anticipated, with the unemployment rate edging higher, according to the jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday. The April data showed the economy added just 175,000 jobs and the unemployment rose to 3.9 percent, falling short
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Hamas in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israeli protests. Students have rallied or set up tents at dozens of campuses in the United States in recent days to protest against
Maria Ressa’s publication accused Israel of ‘targeting’ news reporters in ‘unprecedented attack on journalist safety’ Maria Ressa (Johannes Simon/Getty Images) Harvard’s commencement speaker, media CEO Maria Ressa, published an editorial that compared Israel after Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack to Nazi Germany and accused the Jewish state of “targeting” news reporters in an “unprecedented attack