A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is demanding the governing board members of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) dismiss their presidents following their controversial responses at a campus anti-Semitism hearing. In a Dec. 5 letter, 72 lawmakers expressed their disappointment over the responses from the three college […]

A group of 17 GOP governors has written to the Biden administration and Congressional leaders, urging them to take action to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from buying U.S. land. In a letter dated Dec. 4, led by Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Republican governors called on President Joe Biden, Secretary Janet Yellen, […]

Lawyers for former Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng asked a federal judge to allow him to leave the United States and return to his home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before his sentencing for money-laundering charges. Mr. Zhao’s lawyers filed a motion on Nov. 24 in the Western District of Washington in Seattle, asking U.S. […]

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, was fired, the company’s board of directors announced on Nov. 17.  Mr. Altman’s dismissal is unexpected and shocks the tech industry. “Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications […]

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) is seeking information from the U.S. Army on fortifying land-based missile defense capabilities in Guam given its “strategic importance,” which remains “highly vulnerable” amid escalating Chinese military aggression. Mr. Gallagher, who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), sent a letter to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, pointing […]

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has urged the Biden administration to consider increasing tariffs on Chinese cars and strengthening rules on countries of origin to prevent Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) from flooding the United States. The group, led by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party […]

Amazon created a secret algorithm that helps the e-commerce giant generate an extra $1 billion dollars, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged in a new court filing on Nov. 2. In September, the FTC and 17 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon but many details were withheld until Thursday, when a version of the […]