The Senate on Thursday has cleared procedural hurdles for two bills that protect children’s safety and privacy online, readying them for a floor vote with a guaranteed passage next Tuesday. The new legislation significantly updates a decades-old law to safeguard children’s safety on the internet. The rules for the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has announced that he will bring two bills related to children’s online safety and privacy to a floor vote this week. One of the bills, known as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), requires social media companies to take measures to prevent the spread of harmful content related to […]
TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, filed a legal brief on June 20, kicking off a fast-tracked schedule to challenge a divest-or-ban law signed by President Joe Biden on April 24. The law gives ByteDance a year to sell the short-video app, or it will be banned from mobile app stores and web-hosting services. […]
Primary contests were held in several states on June 18, with most national attention turning toward Virginia. In the Old Dominion State, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-Va.) is in the political fight of his life against state Sen. John McGuire. The night finished with the race still too close to call. Other primary races […]
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.—An Army veteran and a key figure in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment will vie for a Virginia congressional seat in November that may decide the next House majority. On June 18, the 39-year-old Army veteran Derrick Anderson and the 48-year-old Yevgeny “Eugene” Vindman, a former ethics lawyer at the National Security […]
U.S. governors and lawmakers have proclaimed Falun Dafa’s values—truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance—and adherents’ contribution to local communities, at the 32nd anniversary of the spiritual practice’s introduction to the public by its founder Mr. Li Hongzhi. “Celebrating this festive occasion allows us to reflect on the indispensable values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance for ourselves and […]
The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles (EVs) imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum products, lithium-ion batteries, and solar cells. According to White House officials, the tariff […]
TikTok sued on Tuesday to block a new law that requires the sale of the app from its Chinese parent company or its ban from app stores and web-hosting services. About two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the bill, which passed both legislative chambers with broad bipartisan support. In a filing with a federal […]
Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), the new chair of the House China panel, has set his priorities largely following his predecessor’s: deter the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) military aggression on Taiwan, protect American technology and supply chain, and prevent CCP proxies from harassing people on U.S. soil. In a video released on Monday, Mr. Moolenaar highlighted […]
A U.S. District Court sentenced a Chinese national to nine months in prison, three years of supervised release, and deportation afterward for cyberstalking and threatening a fellow student in Boston. He will self-surrender to a designated jail on June 7. Wu Xiaolei was found guilty on both counts three months ago. The sentence is less […]
President Joe Biden signed the TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law. Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate passed the legislation, 79–18, as a part of the foreign aid package. The law gives ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, a year to sell the app, or it will be banned from mobile app stores and web-hosting services. The initial […]
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed their outrage at the Chinese embassy’s reported lobbying against a TikTok bill. They said the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) actions showed the importance of forcing a sale of TikTok to free the social media platform from communist control. Politico reported on Wednesday that the Chinese embassy met […]
WASHINGTON—Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley secured her first GOP primary win over former President Donald Trump on March 3, winning 62.8 percent of the vote in Washington D.C.’s primary. President Trump won 33.2 percent. Because Ms. Haley won more than 60 percent, she now gets all of the district’s 19 delegates. The district is […]
RICHMOND, Va.—Former President Donald Trump urged Virginians to vote for him on Super Tuesday at a rally on March 2 during which he made no mention of his rival Nikki Haley. Trump took the stage at about 6:40 p.m. ET at Richmond’s Convention Center to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” He stood there for […]
A hyperactive second grader is famous at his school. By leaving his seat and talking a lot, he distracted other students and dragged the entire lesson into chaos. Adel Mansilla, his Spanish teacher, remembered often having to take a deep breath before teaching his class. She had looked for a solution for a while. Little […]
WASHINGTON—The next call between U.S. President Joe Biden and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping is likely to occur in the spring, according to a U.S. senior administration official. She didn’t disclose a specific date at the press call on Jan. 27. She added that the United States and China would launch […]
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va.—In a stunning upset, Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s party is projected to lose both legislative chambers on Tuesday night. Although not all races have been called, Democrats have secured narrow majorities in both chambers: 21 out of 40 Senate seats and 51 out of 100 House seats, according to Decision Desk HQ. […]
News Analysis LEESBURG, Va.—Abortion may prove to be the make-or-break issue in Virginia’s off-year election, traditionally a bellwether for the nation. With Election Day just around the corner, each party sprints toward the finish line: both with the goal of keeping their narrow majority in one legislative chamber and flipping the other. To achieve that, […]
The U.S. House China panel has requested details about Sequoia Capital’s Chinese investments in national security technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and semiconductor companies. The panel is concerned that the company’s spinoff of its China operations will enable it to evade new controls on U.S. outbound investment to China. Silicon Valley-based Sequoia Capital, […]
A congressional hearing sounded the alarm about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) using Mandarin language programs to spread communist ideology and grow its soft power in America’s K-12 classrooms. Confucius Classrooms, the K-12 version of Confucius Institutes (CI) in universities, are language programs for which the CCP provides funding and controls curriculum and teacher vetting. […]
