Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) called on President Joe Biden’s administration to defund Columbia University and to deport foreign students attending the university who may be endorsing or espousing support for terrorist activity and organizations. In a Tuesday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Ms. Stefanik […]

More than $1 billion set aside for border wall construction remains unspent, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO review looked at funds appropriated specifically for border barriers for fiscal years 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. The review found that $1.375 billion had been appropriated to the U.S. Department […]

A federal judge has struck down a nearly 150-year-old North Carolina law prohibiting felons from voting. The law, enacted in 1877, had made it a new felony offense for “any person convicted of a crime which excludes the person from the right of suffrage, to vote at any primary or election without having been restored […]

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signaled on Monday that the state legislature will not pass a school voucher system this session despite “tremendous progress” on the effort. “I am extremely disappointed for the families who will have to wait yet another year for the freedom to choose the right education for their child, especially when […]

Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. David Stilwell says new legislation to force the popular video-sharing application TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership or lose the ability to operate within the United States should be seen as a measure of national defense rather than an issue involving free speech and censorship. On April 20, […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is now actively investigating the circumstances of a deadly federal law enforcement raid on the home of Little Rock, Arkansas, airport director Bryan Malinowski on March 19. Agents with the ATF’s Little Rock field office had suspected Mr. Malinowski—executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport—of […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has told Republican Arkansas Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman that federal agents were not wearing body cameras when they fatally shot Arkansas airport director Bryan Malinowski in a pre-dawn raid on his home on March 19. The Little Rock field office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms […]

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is threatening to subpoena Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm to voluntarily testify before the House committee after repeated failed attempts to get her testimony. Mr. Comer expressed frustration on Friday after Ms. Granholm made an appearance on ABC talk show program “The View,” despite not meeting […]

President Joe Biden’s administration announced new sanctions on Friday targeting two fundraisers they deemed to be supporting extremist settlers in the West Bank. The U.S. Treasury Department said the new sanctions specifically target the Mount Hebron Fund and Shlom Asiraich; a pair of fundraising organizations that had facilitated payments for two individuals whom the Biden […]

The Biden administration took action on Friday to restrict new oil and gas drilling on more than 13 million acres of land in the western Arctic region. The U.S. Department of Interior announced the publication of a final rule on Friday, limiting future oil and gas leasing and industrial development in the Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok […]

A U.S. Navy cargo ship slated to assist in the construction of a pier facilitating humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip was forced to abandon the mission and returned to port this week after suffering a fire in its engine room. The cargo ship USNS 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo suffered a mishap last […]

President Joe Biden’s administration announced a new round of sanctions on Thursday, intended to punish key figures in Iran’s drone programs after those weapons systems were used to strike Israel over the weekend. “Less than a week ago, Iran launched one of the largest missile and drone attacks the world has ever seen against Israel,” […]

Senate Commerce Committee Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) signified her support on Wednesday for a bill to force TikTok to divest from its Chinese ownership or lose the ability to operate within the United States. A bill, dubbed the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a 352–65 vote […]

A federal judge has granted a request to delay the criminal trial of Alexander Smirnov, an FBI informant accused of lying about a bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, until after the 2024 election. On Friday, April 12, U.S. District Judge Wright granted a request jointly made by Mr. Smirnov’s […]

As the United States deals with tens of thousands of fentanyl overdoses each year, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is pointing to China’s comparative lack of fentanyl deaths as a sign that the Chinese government knows how to address the problem domestically but enables the potent opioid to keep flowing outside its borders. The House Select […]

Delegate James Moylan (R-Guam) is raising the alarm about the number of Chinese nationals illegally entering the U.S. island territory of Guam, warning these crossings could undermine a key component of U.S. security in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking with NTD’s “Capitol Report” on Tuesday, Guam’s non-voting Congressional delegate said he’s doubtful these Chinese nationals are […]

A federal judge has ruled Meta Platforms, Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not face personal liability in 25 legal complaints alleging his social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, have harmed children. Meta is facing dozens of separate legal complaints alleging the company failed to sufficiently warn adolescent users about the potentially addictive nature of their […]

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, cast doubts on Tuesday about a plan advanced by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to send new rounds of aid to Ukraine, arguing the proposal creates a convoluted process for supplying Ukrainian forces. Congress has deliberated for months on proposals for new […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) are now looking into whether the U.S. intelligence community thought President Joe Biden’s family’s foreign business dealings posed any national security risks and whether the intelligence community warned then-candidate President Biden about these risks in defensive briefings during the 2020 […]

House Oversight Committee Republicans are opening a new probe into the potential for eco-terrorist attacks within the United States, including attacks on energy infrastructure throughout the country. In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) […]

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) is organizing what may be the last chance for the U.S. House of Representatives to implement warrant requirements in a set of U.S. domestic surveillance tools established under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) after a key amendment failed on a tie vote last week. Members of Congress have been […]

Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee enacted a law on Thursday defining requirements for law enforcement officers within the state to work with federal immigration authorities when they encounter illegal immigrant suspects. The legislation, states law enforcement agencies and officials in Tennessee shall “communicate with the appropriate federal official regarding the immigration status of any individual, […]

President Joe Biden’s administration advanced efforts on Friday that would raise the costs for drilling for oil and gas on public lands. The U.S. Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a revised fee schedule on April 12 for its onshore federal oil and gas leasing program. The department said […]

Former President Donald Trump has distanced himself from calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as “Obamacare,” instead vowing the make the healthcare program better and more affordable if he retakes the White House in 2024. The former president and presumptive Republican 2024 presidential nominee shared a video to his Truth social […]

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he and his fellow House Democrats are not planning to provide House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with enough votes to advance a vote on government surveillance authorities, which might help the Republican leader overcome an impasse on the matter. For months, lawmakers have deliberated whether to […]

A state of famine has begun in northern Gaza, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power told lawmakers on Wednesday, adding to potential humanitarian consequences for the ongoing war there. In a prepared statement ahead of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Ms. Powers said nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip […]

A group of Congressional Republicans is raising concerns that President Joe Biden’s administration has underestimated the level of U.S. aid that has flowed to Ukraine since the start of its full-scale war with Russia in February 2022. Several Republicans have been reviewing Ukraine aid figures provided by the White House Office of Management (OMB) in […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a series of letters on Tuesday, seeking to stay current on the FBI and U.S. Justice Department officials’ efforts to communicate with and potentially sway the behavior of major technology companies like Google and Facebook. The FBI and DOJ have come under past scrutiny for their outreach […]

Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) is standing by the impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, even as the Democrat-controlled Senate appears poised to quickly dismiss the case. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives impeached Mr. Mayorkas in February on two articles alleging he has engaged in a “willful and systemic refusal to comply with” U.S. […]

As the U.S. Senate prepares to hold an impeachment hearing against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Derek Maltz says Mr. Mayorkas should be held accountable for the state of U.S. border security, but he doubts Congress will take the kind of steps he’s seeking. The Republican-controlled U.S. House […]

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the government of Switzerland violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to take sufficient action to protect them against climate risks. The Tuesday ruling from the court in Strasbourg, France, comes as a victory for Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz. Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz, whose name translates […]

Investigators now believe a January altercation at a Houston area gas station that ended when a bystander shot and killed a robbery suspect was actually part of a staged attack to facilitate fraudulent insurance and immigration claims. 22-year-old Rasshauud Scott was shot and killed during an altercation at the Chevron gas station at 11095 Ella […]

Shelly Shem-Tov has kept her son’s bedroom exactly as messy as he left it on the night of Oct. 6 when he went to attend a music festival just a few miles east of the Gaza Strip. That bedroom has become a shrine of sorts; a place she visits every morning to pray and find […]

Since the Oct. 7 attacks, former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren says his country has shown itself to be “the strongest and most resilient society on the planet,” but has had to contend with “feelings of loneliness” on the world stage as it continues a multi-month military campaign to defeat the Hamas […]

Tesla CEO and billionaire investor Elon Musk has denied reports published by Reuters that the electric car company has scrapped plans to develop new low-cost models. Reuters first reported on Friday, citing three unnamed officials “familiar with the matter” and alleged company messages, that Tesla had abandoned a multi-year goal to bring a line of […]

Tony Bobulinski, a former Biden family business associate and witness in an ongoing Republican-led impeachment investigation, has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) accusing the lawmaker of defamation. The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Washington and first reported by The Daily Caller on Friday, accuses Mr. Goldman of repeatedly lying about […]

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their role in a series of drone strikes on April 1 that resulted in the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers in the embattled Gaza Strip. The IDF announced the punitive actions in a press statement Friday after the Israeli military […]

The growing U.S. national debt presents a “great concern” to attorney and tax reform advocate Steven L. Hayes, but he’s skeptical about whether either of the two major U.S. political parties has what it takes to address the issue. The U.S. national debt currently sits at over $34.6 trillion. That figure has grown over the […]

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking for ways to de-escalate the ongoing Red Sea standoff with Yemen’s Houthi rebel faction and may revoke a terror designation placed against the rebels if they stop attacking commercial shipping going through the waterway. The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, are a Shiite Islamic faction that has intermittently […]

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee opened a new line of investigation on Wednesday into a sharp rise in the number of immigration cases that have been dismissed since President Joe Biden took office. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research organization sponsored by Syracuse University, released a report last month estimating 192,861 immigration […]

Former President Donald Trump is cheering an effort, led by Republicans in Nebraska, to switch the state’s electoral college system to a purely winner-take-all contest. Nebraska is currently one of two U.S. states that award some of their presidential electors to the winner of district-level contests, with Maine being the other state to follow a […]

As federal, state, and local officials continue to assess the damage and repair costs following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) is arguing that international shipping companies should be held liable. A portion of the bridge over the Patapsco River collapsed on March 26 after the container ship MV Dali struck […]

Republican House Committee leaders are now probing whether the U.S. Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have taken part in an alleged effort to retaliate against IRS employees who raised concerns about misconduct by federal officials tasked with investigating President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and […]

A group of 20 Republican state attorneys general filed a legal brief on Monday, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in favor of fossil fuel companies facing civil liability in Hawaii for their alleged role in causing global climate change. In an amicus curiae “friend of the court” brief organized by Republican Alabama Attorney […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is looking at legislative options to ensure federal court cases are randomly assigned after a top U.S. district court judge in Texas rejected Mr. Schumers calls to change his court’s case assignment methods. Mr. Schumer has urged courts to adopt a randomized case assignment process to curtail a practice […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing ahead with calls to block Qatari news broadcaster Al Jazeera from operating in Israel, alleging the foreign broadcaster has harmed national security in his country. Israel’s unicameral legislature, the Knesset, approved legislation on Monday giving Israel’s prime minister the authority to block any foreign broadcaster from operating in […]

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) has said his recent comments about treating the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip “like Nagasaki and Hiroshima” were not meant to convey support for nuclear strikes on the embattled territory, but were taken out of context and distorted. Mr. Walberg was speaking with constituents at a town hall in Dundee, […]

A couple in Washington state is suing the heads of the state’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) in federal court for blocking their ability to serve as foster parents for refusing to affirm the state’s views on gender ideology. Religious liberty advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the federal lawsuit this week […]

A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a Virginia man, alleging he plotted and took steps to kill congregants at a church in Park Valley in September. Rui Jiang, 35, of Falls Church, was charged last month in a federal complaint alleging he posted online threats against church congregants last fall. On Wednesday, […]

Michael Stumo, the CEO of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, is predicting U.S. markets could soon see a massive influx of cheap products produced by Chinese firms in an event similar to the “China Shock” era of the early 2000s. “We had China shock 1.0 after China was let into the [World Trade Organization] […]

President Joe Biden is rolling back a Trump-era policy that expanded the availability of limited health insurance policies that are exempted from coverage requirements under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “Obamacare.” These limited health insurance policies, commonly described as “short-term” policies and referred to by President Biden as “junk health insurance,” […]

A federal appeals court has ruled that Pennsylvania election officials should throw out mail-in ballot envelopes with missing or erroneous dates. In a 2-1 decision on Wednesday, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld state election laws requiring mailed-in ballot envelopes to include an accurate handwritten date. The appeal’s […]

Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle expressed confusion at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pick for a presidential running mate as his campaign is in talks with running on the Libertarian Party ticket. On Tuesday, Mr. Kennedy announced Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate for his 2024 presidential campaign. Reacting to the announcement […]

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) revealed on Tuesday that a department policy to reimburse service members for leave time and travel expenses for abortion-related travel was used 12 times in a seven-month period last year after the policy went into effect. The DOD announced last February that it would grant administrative absence time and […]

Tony Bobulinski, a former Biden family business associate and witness in an ongoing Republican-led impeachment investigation, is threatening to sue Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) for defamation. On March 26, attorney Jesse Binnall sent a letter to Mr. Goldman demanding the retraction of a March 21 post on the X social media platform in which the […]

A Kansas man is suing Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) for defamation, arguing the congressman incorrectly identified him as one of the shooters involved in the Kansas City Super Bowl Parade shooting last month. The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. Federal District Court for Kansas on Monday, argues plaintiff Denton Loudermill received death threats after Mr. […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant at the Pentagon on Tuesday, amid growing tension between the administrations of U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Austin is set to speak with his Israeli counterpart about a range of issues stemming from the Oct. 7 […]

Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Sasha Baker is set to step down from her Pentagon role at the end of April, ending her time there at about the nine-month mark. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder announced Ms. Baker’s resignation at a press briefing on Monday afternoon. The Pentagon spokesman said Amanda […]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to more rapidly drive Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) out of Congress so that his district can select a replacement to finish out his term. Mr. Gallagher announced last month that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2024. On March 22, he indicated that he […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) issued a new joint letter on Monday threatening to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt if the Department of Justice (DOJ) did not turn over investigative materials stemming from the Special Counsel investigation into President Joe Biden’s handling […]

A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk and the X social media platform against a self-styled hate speech watchdog organization called the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). X Corp. had filed a complaint in July last year, alleging the CCDH had illegally scraped data off the social […]

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed President Joe Biden’s ghostwriter, Mark Zwonitzer, on Friday, pressing for details about the president’s handling of classified documents. Last month, Special Counsel Robert Hur published his findings from his investigation into President Biden’s handling of classified documents. Among the findings, Mr. Hur said in 2016 then-Vice President […]

The Chinese and Russian delegations at the United Nations on Friday vetoed a U.S.-led resolution that expressed a need for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. delegation had announced the U.N. Security Council resolution earlier this week. A draft version of the resolution was presented before the 15-member council […]

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a pair of Department of Justice officials alleged to have defied subpoenas relating to the department’s prosecution of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The civil complaint, filed in a Washington federal court, seeks a judge’s order compelling DOJ tax division attorneys Mark Daly […]

Nearly 200,000 deportation cases have been thrown out since the start of President Joe Biden’s administration because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) hadn’t filed the necessary court appearance paperwork to proceed with the removals, according to a new analysis of the cases. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a data research organization sponsored […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Thursday he will invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. Rumors first began to swirl on Wednesday that the Republican house speaker was considering inviting the Israeli leader to address Congress. Asked again about the idea during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” program on Thursday morning, […]

Less than a third of U.S. military families would recommend others join the military and embrace their lifestyle, according to a new survey by Blue Star Families. Among its new findings, Blue Star Families’ “2023 Military Family Lifestyle Survey” revealed that 32 percent of respondents would recommend military service. That figure is down from 55 […]

Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is deploying some of her state’s National Guard troops to Texas to help slow illegal border crossings into the state. On Tuesday, the Arkansas governor announced plans to deploy 40 National Guard troops from her state. She said this deployment would begin on April 1 and last approximately two […]

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is insisting a recent encounter he had with former President Donald Trump was unplanned and that the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee did not ask him for money or a loan. Mr. Musk faced questions about his potential financial support for President Trump during a contentious interview with […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is again signaling plans for an Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, even as the Biden administration has increasingly pushed back on the idea. Mr. Netanyahu reiterated his plans for a Rafah offensive while addressing Israel’s unicameral legislature, the Knesset, on Tuesday. “We have been […]

A U.S. interagency group launched a new website on Tuesday to provide details about the oversight work being done to ensure U.S. aid to Ukraine is not being misappropriated or misused. This new website comes more than two years on in the Russia-Ukraine war, as approximately $113.4 billion in U.S. taxpayer funds have been appropriated […]

Eric Schwerin, an associate of President Joe Biden and his family, appears to have confirmed allegations that the president and several of his family members relied on aliases and personal email accounts to communicate amongst themselves during his term as vice president. In a transcribed interview conducted on Jan. 30 and released on Monday, Mr. […]

Republican House Oversight and Accountability Committee members are investigating the Biden administration’s January order blocking certain new licenses to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Reps. Pat Fallon (R-Texas) and Clay Higgins (R-La.) sent a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on Monday, pressing her for documents and […]

Seth Markin, a former FBI trainee, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after he pleaded guilty in December to engaging in an insider trading scheme. Mr. Markin, 32, was arrested in July 2022 and charged with securities fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Prosecutors alleged Mr. […]

Haitian nationals attempting to illegally enter the United States by sea crossing face immediate repatriation back to their home country, according to a new warning shared by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In a statement shared with NTD News on Friday, DHS said it remains watchful for heightened numbers of individuals attempting to […]

A top Senate Democrat has raised concern that U.S. troops could find themselves “in harm’s way” if Congress doesn’t approve an additional $61 billion in support for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, reiterated calls for the House of Representatives to pass a […]

Thousands of unmanned drones may be transgressing U.S. airspace via the southern border every month, according to U.S. Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot. Gen. Guillot—who assumed command of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORTHCOM) last month—was asked about the threat posed by unidentified drone aircraft operating on the Southern […]

Former President Donald Trump has vowed he will “never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare” clarifying his stance on the programs after he elicited pushback from his political opponents with other recent comments about entitlement programs. Sitting down for an interview with Breitbart News on Wednesday, President Trump indicated he […]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday morning to deliver a speech in which he cast doubt on the current Israeli administration and urged for new elections in the country. The top Congressional Democrat said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “lost his way” and become one of four […]

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed telecommunications company AT&T for 13 years of phone records for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The committee’s Democrat minority first revealed the subpoena in a memo between the minority members on Tuesday. Republican majority staff confirmed the AT&T subpoena in an email to NTD News on Wednesday. The […]

New polls suggest President Joe Biden gained no traction with the American public during his State of the Union address last week and may have even lost some ground. On Tuesday, Yahoo News previewed the results from their latest poll, conducted in partnership with YouGov. The survey of 1,482 U.S. adults, conducted in the days […]

Montana’s Republican attorney general is cheering on U.S. lawmakers weighing legislation to restrict the Chinese-owned TikTok social media platform, and is taking these recent congressional actions as vindication of Montana’s own efforts to ban TikTok throughout the state. Last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted 50–0 to advance legislation that could significantly […]

The Israeli military has concluded Itay Chen, a 19-year-old U.S.-Israeli dual citizen, was likely killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in southern Israel. Mr. Chen had been serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the time of the Hamas attacks and has remained missing in the months since. Mr. Chen was one of […]

Hamas could continue to trouble Israel for years to come, according to a new global threat assessment prepared by the U.S. intelligence community. Israeli forces have been fighting in the Gaza Strip against Hamas—a Palestinian faction designated by Israel, the United States, and several other nations as a terrorist group—since the group attacked southern Israel […]

Former President Donald Trump announced his support on Monday for Republican Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers in the Republican 2024 Senate primary. “Mike has served his Country during a career loaded up with accolades and wins, from the Army to Congress, and now, hopefully, the U.S. Senate,” President Trump said in a post on his Truth […]

Canada and Sweden are restarting financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), reversing a decision to pause payments after the Israeli government accused members of that U.N. agency of supporting the Hamas terrorist group. UNRWA was established in 1949 to provide humanitarian assistance to […]

As most Americans reset their clocks and adjusted to daylight savings time on Sunday, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) renewed calls to do away with the practice and “lock the clock” on a set time. Daylight savings came into widespread practice during the First World War as a method to maximize daytime productivity and save energy […]

House Education and Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) is pressing forward with her probe into antisemitism on U.S. university campuses, now calling on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to answer for what she described as the university’s failure to protect Jewish students and faculty. In a Friday letter, Ms. Foxx called on MIT […]

House Democrats are pressing SpaceX and its CEO, Elon Musk, for answers on allegations coming from Ukrainian intelligence officials that Russian forces are using SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service in their ongoing war with Ukraine. On Wednesday, March 6, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) sent a letter […]

The Biden administration is moving forward on plans to open a sea route for humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces continue their military operations there. The U.S. military will oversee the establishment of this maritime humanitarian corridor, and the effort will begin with the establishment of a port along Gaza’s Mediterranean […]

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen castigated House Republicans on Thursday for not approving a new round of funding to bolster Ukrainian forces in their war with Russia, casting Republican opposition as “nothing short of a gift” to Russian President Vladimir Putin and other adversaries of the United States and its allies. In remarks shared with the […]

First Lady Jill Biden is set to host 20 guests at the annual State of the Union Address on Thursday night, each of whom is meant to personify themes central to President Joe Biden’s address. “Each of these individuals were invited by the White House because they personify issues or themes to be addressed by […]

Three merchant mariners were killed after a Yemeni Houthi missile struck their cargo vessel as they transited the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday. The Barbados-flagged bulk carrier vessel True Confidence was struck as it passed near Yemen on its way from Singapore to the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)—the […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is sharing optimism at the thought that the 2024 presidential election is increasingly shaping up to be a rematch of the 2020 contest. Former President Donald Trump was already a distant frontrunner in the Republican primary contest before the Super Tuesday primary results and won all but one of the […]

The Council of the District of Columbia passed a crime prevention omnibus bill on Tuesday evening, advancing measures aimed at reversing rising crime trends. The 13-member council, which serves as a legislative body for the District of Columbia, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill, dubbed the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024. In […]

Federal prosecutors hit Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Nadine Menendez, with new criminal charges on Tuesday, alleging they obstructed justice in hopes of concealing a bribery scheme. Mr. Menendez and his wife were originally indicted in September for conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit […]

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued records requests from the crowd-funding platform GoFundMe and the event-organizing platform Eventbrite, asking whether either organization helped federal authorities keep tabs on supporters of former President Donald Trump. Mr. Jordan sent letters to GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan and Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz on Monday, seeking communications […]

Houthi terrorist forces struck another cargo ship sailing near Yemen on Monday, setting off a fire on board the Djibouti-bound vessel. The container ship MSC Sky II, operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), was targeted with a pair of anti-ship ballistic missiles launched from Yemen on Monday as it neared the southern Yemeni port […]

Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, is suing former Trump White House aid Cassidy Hutchinson, alleging she lied about him in a book she recently published. Mr. Bobulinski filed his defamation lawsuit against Ms. Hutchinson in the U.S. District Court for northern Georgia on Monday. Mr. Bobulinski garnered widespread public attention in […]

Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira pled guilty on March 4 to leaking a trove of U.S. military planning documents, including documents about the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Mr. Teixeira, 22, initially pled not guilty after being arrested and charged with the leak last year. Appearing before a federal court in Boston, his […]