A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday to designate Russian mercenary company Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). The Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act, sponsored by nine members of the lower chamber, would require the State Department to designate the Wagner Group an FTO within 90 days of becoming...
Meta released its long-awaited announcement Wednesday, saying it will in fact let former President Trump back onto Facebook after his two-year ban. Meanwhile, Republicans introduced a proposal to ban TikTok nationwide following a successful push to ban the Chinese-owned app on government devices. This is Hillicon Valley, detailing all you need to know about...
South Africa and the United States will collaborate to track and cut off the financial flows that connect organized crime to wildlife trafficking, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday. "To help save wildlife populations from further approaching and disrupt the associated illicit trade, we must 'follow the money' in the same way we do other serious crimes,”...
President Biden undoes a Trump-era rollback of protections for the Tongass National Forest. Meanwhile, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) introduces a bill to eliminate a delay on restrictions on EV tax credits in the IRA, and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) hits another snag in his plans to remove the state from a carbon-trading partnership. This...
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff will bring his work fighting antisemitism to the international stage this week, traveling to Europe amid a global rise in hate against Jews and other groups. Emhoff will travel Thursday to Krakow, Poland, and will spend Friday visiting the Memorial and Museum at Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most notorious concentration camps...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its second lawsuit against Google this week, highlighting the ongoing bipartisan angst from regulators and lawmakers against tech giants. The Biden administration’s case, joined by a handful of states, seeks to break up Google to untangle what the antitrust enforcers say is an anticompetitive dominance in the digital ad market. Google denied the allegations...
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday pushed Republicans against taking military spending off the table as the party looks for ways to tackle government funding in talks on how to address the debt limit this year. While speaking at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Paul framed the partisan battle over the nation’s debt limit...
The Young Americans for Liberty organization at Creighton University was ordered to remove posters containing imagery of guns if they wanted to participate in school events
The Biden administration is citing data that it says shows a massive drop in migrant encounters from four nationalities after it implemented new measures this month.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on "the Biden Border Crisis" next Wednesday, Chairman Jim Jordan announced this week after migrant numbers hit a new high.