Legislation would force USAID to implement reforms to drive down costs USAID Administrator Samantha Power (Alex Wong/Getty Images) A bipartisan coalition of senators is proposing legislation that would stop the U.S. government’s leading foreign aid group from wasting hundreds of millions in taxpayer funds on costly items such as luxury hotels and airfares, the Washington Free
A top U.S. admiral said on Wednesday that China is rapidly ramping up its military capabilities to prepare for an invasion of Taiwan by 2027. “All indications point to the [People’s Liberation Army] meeting President Xi Jinping’s directive to be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027. The PLA’s actions indicate their ability to meet Xi’s
The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, who also teaches at the university’s school of education, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct, according to a complaint filed with the university on Wednesday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis. That misconduct includes presenting old studies as new research, which he
When violent student protesters prevented Israeli lawyer Ran Bar-Yoshafat from speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, last month, the school’s chancellor, Carol Christ, decried the move as an “attack on the fundamental values of the university.” So, when Jewish students invited Bar-Yoshafat to return to campus earlier this week, in a test of whether
A poll released Wednesday shows former Maryland governor Larry Hogan (R.) leading his potential Democratic opponents by double digits in the state’s Senate race. If the election was held today, Hogan would win the seat left vacant by the retiring Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md.), beating the leading Democratic candidates Rep. David Trone (Md.) and
Virginia’s Tim Kaine becomes latest to dissent from Schumer’s views, telling the Free Beacon that ‘decisions regarding Israel’s leadership should be made by the Israeli people’ Tim Kaine, Chuck Schumer (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Nearly a week after Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called on Israelis to depose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just a
A federal budget proposal released by the House’s largest Republican caucus on Wednesday “would implement the toughest package of sanctions on Iran ever proposed by Congress” and eradicate funding for “all woke programs and priorities in the military,” according to a copy of the fiscal package provided to the Washington Free Beacon. The Republican Study