The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect allowing state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, rejecting a request by President Joe Biden’s administration. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority, and its 3 liberal justices dissented on Tuesday. The administration had asked
Muriel Bowser, the Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., on Monday downplayed concerns about the district’s high crime rates. “Don’t be so down on D.C.,” Bowser said when asked about the crime surge at the Axios What’s Next Summit Monday night. Bowser, who is in her third term leading the nation’s capital, has faced growing scrutiny
Center for Democracy and Technology took more than $100,000 from Chinese-owned app in 2022 (Mario Tama/Getty Images) NBC News is warning its readers that a U.S. ban on TikTok could “embolden authoritarian censorship”—and using a think tank that has taken more than $100,000 from the Chinese-owned app to do so. In a Sunday report titled,
Ran Bar-Yoshafat returned to Berkeley this week after initial appearance was shut down Ran Bar-Yoshafat (ILTV Israel News/YouTube) BERKELEY, Calif.—A University of California, Berkeley, spokesman said Monday that the university could not adequately secure Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat’s campus appearance last month against the violent student protesters who shut down the event because Jewish student
School accused of tolerating ‘hotbed of anti-Jewish hostility and harassment’ A pro-Palestinian protest at UC Berkeley, Oct. 25, 2023 (Kevin Fagan/Twitter) A congressional committee investigating anti-Semitism at a range of colleges broadened its investigation on Tuesday to include the University of California, Berkeley, which has long been accused of tolerating a “hotbed of anti-Jewish hostility
A top Chinese diplomat emphasized China’s relationship with Hamas during the first meeting between a Chinese official and a Hamas leader since the terrorist group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs envoy, Wang Kejian, met with the head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Qatar on Sunday. Wang said the
‘Left-wing college administrators want to transform their campuses into sanctuary cities,’ Vance says J.D. Vance (Win McNamee/Getty Images), Jim Banks (Alex Wong/Getty Images) A pair of congressional Republicans want to ban colleges and universities from hiring illegal aliens as campus employees, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Sen. J.D. Vance (R., Ohio) and Rep. Jim