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‘Not trying to ban booty videos’: Paul blocks Hawley’s TikTok bill as Rubio weighs in

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ken.) blocked a move Wednesday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to pass his bill that would ban the embattled social media platform TikTok in the U.S., saying the legislation violated First Amendment rights. “The company has bent over backwards to work with our government,” Paul said on the Senate floor. “I will...

Republicans defend Starbucks at tense hearing

Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy   The Big Story Republicans, Democrats split at hearing over Starbucks Democrats went after former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz during a Wednesday hearing on union-busting, while Republicans largely defended the executive. © AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Republicans have long attacked...

Nashville school shooting: Republican congressmen demand AG Garland launch hate crime investigation

Two Republican congressmen sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that the DOJ open a hate crime investigation into the Nashville private Christian School shooting.

Ohio lawmaker moves to force vote on constitutional amendment rules

GOP Ohio state Rep. Susan Manchester pulled a discharge position that, if successful, would allow a proposal to make amending the state constitution harder to bypass via normal processes.

Minneapolis City Council to discuss potential settlement in major Floyd lawsuit

The Minneapolis City Council will hold a special meeting to discuss a potential settlement in a suit by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights over George Floyd's police-involved death.

DOJ charges two more people for attacks against Florida pro-life pregnancy center

The Justice Department charged two more people on Wednesday for carrying out a targeted attack on a pro-life pregnancy center in Winter Haven, Florida

Mel King, Boston civil rights figurehead and former mayoral candidate, dead at 94

Mel King, a prominent civil rights figurehead in Boston credited with much of the city's progress on integration in the 1970s and 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 94.

Sen. Kennedy surprises Mayorkas by interrupting testimony for shoulder pat, handshake after tense exchange

Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was on the receiving end of a shoulder pat and firm handshake on Wednesday from Sen. John Kennedy after a tough exchange on assault weapons.

More than two dozen Democrats join GOP in opposing Biden gas stove ban

The House of Representatives passed an amendment to the GOP's big energy bill on Wednesday that would stop the Biden administration from enacting its proposed rule on gas stoves

Biden admin led massive ‘speech censorship operation,’ former state AG will testify

FIRST ON FOX: The Biden administration has led “the largest speech censorship operation in recent history" by working with social media companies to suppress and censor information that was later admitted to be “truthful or credible," former Missouri attorney general, now-Sen. Eric Schmitt is expected to tell the House Weaponization Committee Thursday.

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