Greg Abbott under fire over police response to protesters

newsweek.com Texas Governor Gregg Abbott has come under fire after police arrested pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Texas at Austin. Large crowds gathered at the UT campus…

It's Not Clear the TikTok Ban Will Survive Constitutional Scrutiny

vox.com President Joe Biden has signed a bill to ban TikTok, starting a nine-month countdown until the social media app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance will be forced to sell it…

The place to be for politicians and protesters

politico.com With help from Shawn Ness. New from New York Happening now: Columbia University is now a gathering place for protesters and political leaders. A new push for wage parity…

15 photos that show how divided Congress has become

businessinsider.com Marjorie Taylor Greene gives a thumb down as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address. Jim Watson/Getty Images Photos show how breaches of decorum have…

Trump allies zero in on hush-money prosecutor

axios.com Donald Trump's allies have quickly found a target in Matthew Colangelo, the Manhattan prosecutor who delivered the opening statement in the historic hush-money case against…

Trump VP Pool, Including A Mystery Candidate, Put On Notice By Anti-Abortion Group: 'GOP Ticket Poses A Significant Threat'

benzinga.com In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, EMILY’s List, a pro-abortion rights organization, has issued a warning to 14 potential Republican VP candidates for their hardline…

America's campuses reach boiling point

axios.com All eyes are on America's college campuses as simmering tensions over the Israel-Hamas war boil over into outright confrontation. Why it matters: The growing intensity of…

Columbia strife ensnares Hochul, Adams

politico.com With help from Shawn Ness New from New York Happening now: Gov. Kathy Hochul visited Columbia University amid the rancor there. A new bill aimed at curbing consumption of…

Why Elise Stefanik’s vote against security aid for Ukraine matters

msnbc.com While there are some Republicans in Congress who’ve been accused of siding with Russia in its war with Ukraine, House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik has not been among…

Tensions are so high at Columbia ahead of Passover that all classes will be virtual today

aol.com Officials at Columbia University, facing surging tensions on campus that have raised safety concerns, have announced all classes will be virtual on Monday as Passover…

The Intel Agencies Of Government Are Fully Weaponized

zerohedge.com The Intel Agencies Of Government Are Fully Weaponized Authored by 'sundance' via TheConservativeTreehouse.com, Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ…

Behind the Curtain: Speaker Johnson's historic road-to-Kyiv conversion

axios.com Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) did something rarely, if ever, seen in the MAGA era when he won passage Saturday of a $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and…

WATCH: Democrats Admonished For Cheering, Waving Ukrainian Flags After Aid Bill Passes

mediaite.com Some House Democrats cheered, chanted, “Ukraine, Ukraine!” and waved small Ukrainian flags on the House floor following passage of the aid bill, causing the Chair to bang…

Trump Campaign Denies Press Credentials for Several Journalists

vanityfair.com Last week, Washington Post reporter Isaac Arnsdorf published his book, Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy. The book has been praised by…

Why the GOP’s Columbia University antisemitism hearing should trouble everyone

msnbc.com Since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, and Israel’s subsequent onslaught on Gaza, American college campuses have been seized by protests as the death toll in Gaza has…

Professor who Columbia president said was ‘spoken to’ for calling Hamas invasion ‘astounding’ says he wasn’t disciplined

aol.com Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s Wednesday testimony before a House committee on how the school responded to a professor’s controversial piece labeling Hamas’…

Columbia's president managed to avoid the missteps of other elite colleges in heated congressional grilling

businessinsider.com Columbia University President Nemat "Minouche" Shafik at a congressional hearing on April 17, 2024. Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images Columbia University's president took a…

Columbia leadership's "gross negligence" endangered Jewish students, Foxx says

axios.com Columbia University's leadership is guilty of "gross negligence at best" for its failures to respond to allegations of antisemitism on campus, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.)…

WATCH LIVE: Columbia University’s president testifies at House antisemitism hearing

pbs.org Four months after a contentious congressional hearing led to the resignations of two Ivy League presidents, Columbia University’s president is set to appear before the same…

These US lawmakers voted for TikTok ban but use it themselves

newsweek.com House representatives who voted to potentially ban TikTok in the United States still have accounts on the Chinese social media platform that they continue to use, a Newsweek…

Republicans Fan Out to Defend Trump in Hopes He’ll Notice and Pick Them to Be His VP

vanityfair.com As Republicans have proven countless times over the past eight years, they don’t need a reason to go on TV and defend Donald Trump against whatever awful, possibly criminal…

Vladimir Putin hardly needs to interfere in American democracy

economist.com President Vladimir Putin of Russia must get a kick out of spreading disinformation to Americans for its own sake. Otherwise it is hard to see why he would bother. As has…

GOP Lawmakers Slam Biden After Trump-Era Exemption Results In Huawei Unveiling Laptop With New Intel AI Chip

benzinga.com Republican lawmakers have expressed their discontent with the Joe Biden-led administration after tech giant Huawei, a major Chinese telecom company, unveiled a new laptop…

Trump Wants a Good-Looking, Election-Denying, Shorter-Than-Him Running Mate Whom He Doesn’t Have to “See Too Much”: Report

vanityfair.com At some point in the next several months, Donald Trump—having parted ways with his veep, whom he almost got killed—is going to have to announce a 2024 running mate. Who is…

‘You’re Done!’ Charlie Kirk Tells Elise Stefanik Her Trump VP Chances Are Over After Latest Vote

mediaite.com Conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk claimed that Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) has ruined her chances of being former President Donald Trump’s VP after her latest vote to…