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
TEL AVIV, Israel—Israelis don’t usually pay much attention to the Oscars. But the ceasefire pins that celebrities wore at the Hollywood awards ceremony on Sunday struck a nerve here. Michael Norzhich, 58, told the Washington Free Beacon that the pins—which feature a red hand inside of a circle—evoke the 2000 lynching of two Israeli reserve
Biden, 81, warned FBI agents searching his house about ‘risqué pictures’ of Dr. Jill in a bikini (Getty Images) Last month we learned President Joe Biden likes to brag about having lots of “good sex” with his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, Ed.D. Good for him? Not exactly. Our analysis found that Biden’s obsession with wife
The U.S. Border Patrol has put its agents in Miami on high alert ahead of a potential influx of Haitian refugees amid widespread gang violence in the Caribbean country. “One landing will cripple the station and our ability to respond to other traffic,” an internal Border Patrol email obtained by the New York Post said,