The House of Representatives has passed a bipartisan bill to strip communist China of its international status as a developing nation, thereby limiting the regime’s access to certain aid from the United States and other nations. H.R. 1107, colloquially referred to as the “PRC is Not a Developing Country Act,” aims to ensure that China’s […]
The House on March 27 overwhelmingly passed a bill to punish communist China for its forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. The move marked the first non-symbolic legislative measure in the United States to counter the atrocity. H.R. 1154, dubbed the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2023, passed by a vote of 413 […]
House Republicans recently passed the Parents Bill of Rights legislation that aims at giving parents more information about their children’s education in school. NTD spoke to Lily Tang Williams, a former New Hampshire congressional candidate and a survivor of communist China’s Cultural Revolution, for her take on the bill.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Sunday that his chamber would be moving forward with legislation to ban the controversial video app TikTok. The move was expected after testimony from Singapore-based TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi before members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday failed to convince lawmakers that […]
WASHINGTON—Two women who experienced life in Chinese “reeducation” camps for Uyghurs told lawmakers Thursday of lives under imprisonment and surveillance, rape and torture as a special House committee focused on countering China shined a light on human rights abuses in the country. Qelbinur Sidik, a member of China’s ethnic Uzbek minority who was forced to […]
RODANTHE, N.C.—A house collapsed into the ocean Monday on the string of islands just off the coast of North Carolina, according to U.S. National Park Service officials. Officials warned visitors to the Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the state’s Outer Banks to watch out for debris from a collapsed one-story house along the beach and […]
What are the origins of COVID-19? And why did the lab leak theory surface only now? These are the questions being asked on Capitol Hill. One of the members asking questions at the hearing is Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.), who joins us with key takeaways and with what questions still remain. The deaths of U.S. […]
A GOP-led House committee said Sunday it uncovered new email evidence suggesting Dr. Anthony Fauci “prompted” the drafting of a “proximal origin” publication meant to “disprove” the COVID-19 lab leak theory. The Republican-led subcommittee on the COVID-19 pandemic issued a memo (pdf) Sunday saying that there is new evidence on the “proximal origin of Sars-COV-2,” […]
SIEM REAP, Cambodia—A Cambodian man, inspired by a lifelong dream of flying, has built a home that is modeled on a plane, complete with a fuselage-like structure standing 6 meters (19.69 ft) above the ground housing his two bedrooms and bathrooms. The concrete construction, which has mock engines, wings, and a tailplane, was built by […]
The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee and the incoming Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing at 10:30 a.m. ET on Feb. 1, on enhancing American global technology leadership to counter competition from China and preventing the Chinese Communist Party from deciding the economic future. NTD will livestream the event.
