Sen. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), a leading critic of the House’s sell-or-ban bill against TikTok, has ties to the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, with at least three of her former senior staffers working or lobbying for the app. The House on Wednesday passed a bill requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to divest from its American
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) on Thursday blasted Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) call for Israelis to vote out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Chuck Schumer’s demand for new Israeli elections is inappropriate and offensive,” Cotton said in a statement. “Israel is a close ally and a healthy, vibrant democracy. The last thing Israel
‘I really think this is bigger than an Israeli issue or a Jewish issue,’ he tells the Free Beacon Ran Bar-Yoshafat (Israel National News) Ran Bar-Yoshafat, the Israeli lawyer whose University of California, Berkeley, speech was shut down last month by an anti-Semitic mob, will return to the school next week to deliver a new
Former Treasury secretary under the Trump administration Steven Mnuchin announced he is assembling an investor group to acquire TikTok as the Senate weighs a House bill that could ban the app if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it. “I think the legislation should pass, and I think [TikTok] should be sold. It’s a great
Sunnova ‘made materially false and misleading statements about its operations,’ lawsuit says (@SunnovaEnergy/Twitter) A solar company that was approved for a $3 billion loan from the Biden administration last year is facing a class action lawsuit from investors who claim the company withheld troubling information about its business practices. The lawsuit claims that Sunnova Energy
In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, MIT president Sally Kornbluth responded to a rise in campus anti-Semitism with a new initiative: “Standing Together Against Hate.” Launched on Nov. 14 of last year, Kornbluth trumpeted it as an effort aimed at “community building.” She put MIT chancellor Melissa Nobles in charge. Trouble began to
The Biden administration on Wednesday reapproved a sanctions waiver that unlocks upwards of $10 billion in frozen funds for the Iranian government, according to a copy of the notice submitted to Congress late Wednesday and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. The sanctions waiver—which has drawn fierce GOP opposition on Capitol Hill—allows Iraq to transfer