Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) on Tuesday accused former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) of elbowing him as he passed in a Capitol hallway and chased after the former House leader. The incident began as Republicans were leaving a conference meeting on early Tuesday and Burchett stopped to talked to reporters in the hall. Not long after,...
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chair Martin Gruenberg told lawmakers Tuesday he was “personally disturbed and deeply troubled” over systemic sexual harassment allegations in the agency described in a Wall Street Journal report on Monday. Current and former employees at the FDIC said the banking regulator fostered a toxic work environment rife with sexual harassment...
Scammers are taking advantage of unsuspecting online users interested in artificial intelligence through advertising that steals small businesses’ social media passwords, Google alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday. “As public excitement in new generative AI tools has increased, scammers are increasingly taking advantage of unsuspecting users,” Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado wrote in the...
This week, President Biden will meet his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jingping, in San Francisco, with the hope of halting the rise in tensions between their two countries. This engagement is the latest in a series of events involving senior administration officials who have attempted to curry favor with the repressive regime of the People’s...
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday described as “harrowing” a video compilation that was shown to lawmakers of Hamas’s attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, as he pushed for the Senate to pass House legislation that coupled aid to Israel with cuts to the IRS. “We had a large group of Republican and Democrat...
A spokesman for the Israeli government defended his country’s offensive into Gaza on Monday, admitting that “the optics” of the airstrike campaign and ground offensive are “bad,” but that the country is not concerned with the way things look. “You’re right, the optics are bad. But we are not fighting for our image, we are...
The Biden administration announced a slate of new resources Tuesday intended to address a rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia in schools amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The Education Department rolled out a host of additional resources, including funding for school security and a series to increase awareness around bias against Jews and Muslims,...
Tens of thousands of pro-Israel supporters are expected to gather in Washington, D.C., Tuesday afternoon to protest antisemitism and call for the release of the hostages captured by Hamas militants last month. National Jewish organizations called on members of the public to join them for their rally, more than a month after militant group Hamas...
Given the violence directed at Jews and supporters of Israel around the U.S., the thousands who will march on the Mall today are showing incredible courage. It’s an extension of the courage that my family and countless others have had to demonstrate in the face of terrorism and an example of the kind of courage we need from Congress now. For...