Last summer, the Biden administration announced an $850 million conditional loan to a company called KORE Power to build a battery production plant in Arizona. The purpose was to decrease the United States’ reliance on China’s batteries, but KORE Power has enlisted its co-owner, a Chinese battery maker, to help build the taxpayer-funded facility, according
Maryland Senate hopeful has poured $79 million into his own campaigns since 2016 David Trone in 2009 (Sean Naber/Wikimedia Commons) Rep. David Trone, the Democratic frontrunner in the race for Maryland’s open Senate seat, is throwing his weight behind a bill that could earn him millions of dollars by crushing mom-and-pop liquor stores across the
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