As of Wednesday, the national debt was $33,836,693,993,860.35, according to the U.S. Treasury, which updates this startling statistic through a helpful online feature titled "Debt to the Penny." In the meantime, the House Budget Committee got a stark earful from its chairman about the burden of this debt.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday wriggled around answering whether she supports banning TikTok, the China-founded social media platform whose popularity has skyrocketed while concerns have swelled.
The owners of electric vehicles face expensive speed bumps as an increasing number of states tack on costly registration fees to recoup lost gas-tax revenue.
Former President Donald Trump offered up support for two New York Democrats who were sued by women alleging sexual misconduct -- a situation he is familiar with himself.
George Orwell, call your office. That’s my initial and slightly out-of-date response to news stories about the Biden administration’s efforts to stamp out “misinformation.” It’s an interesting irony that covert censorship should be undertaken enthusiastically by those who call themselves “liberal” or “progressive” and who claim the opposition would threaten the survival of liberal democracy.
Just five days after Yuri Kim, the acting assistant secretary of state, told a Senate committee that the United States would not tolerate any military action against the Christian community in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan's dictator ordered his army to attack. Thus ended one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, as Azerbaijani forces pushed the region’s 120,000 men, women, and children into flight.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) on Wednesday said the news of an alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City is "disturbing" and underscores a global rise in transnational repression. “We are witnessing an alarming rise in transnational repression globally, where governments are dispatching assassins and kidnappers or using...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk insisted Wednesday that his trip to Israel was not an “apology tour” amid the backlash he received for endorsing an antisemitic social media post, for which he expressed regret. “Well, the trip to Israel is independent of — it wasn't something like [an] apology tour,” Musk told The New York Times’s...
The Department of Education (DOE) has launched an investigation into Harvard University over claims of antisemitism on its campus. The department launched its inquiry into the Massachusetts-based Ivy League institution on Tuesday, according to a listing on the federal agency’s website. DOE’s inquiry into Harvard stems from a complaint that alleged the school discriminated against...