‘Parental rights’: GOP warns Dem Senate bill is about more than contraception
Republicans slammed the bill before the Senate on Wednesday afternoon, claiming that Democrats are “fear-mongering” about access to contraception to “score easy political points.” “There is no threat to access to contraception because it is legal in every state and required by law to be provided free by health insurance companies,” more than two dozen […]
House Republicans pass VA, military construction funding bill
House Republicans on Wednesday passed their first budget bill for fiscal year 2025, which lays out a blueprint for the Department of Veterans Affairs and military construction and includes partisan riders on areas such as abortion that are unpalatable to Democrats. The House passed the bill 209-197 on Wednesday morning, despite a veto threat from […]
Senate crafts defense bill without abortion drama
Senate Republicans won’t be reviving a fight over the Pentagon’s abortion policy as the chamber negotiates this year’s annual defense bill. Next week, the Armed Services Committee will approve the National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the priorities of the U.S. military, without the drama that accompanied last year’s legislation. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a […]
NJ Rep. Bill Pascrell easily defeats Mohamed Khairullah in primary
Longtime Rep. Bill Pascrill (D-N.J.) on Tuesday defeated an anti-Israel New Jersey mayor in the Garden State’s 9th District Democratic primary, a contest that centered on the conflict over Israel’s war with Hamas. Pascril, 87, was elected as the Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives, defeating Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairulla by a 54-point […]
Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan Charged in Alleged $67m Global Money-Laundering Scheme
Chief financial officer of the conservative Global News Network Epoch Times He was arrested on suspicion of involvement in a large-scale international money laundering scheme. The federal government suspects there was a long-running scheme to launder at least $67 million in illicit funds. The prosecutor Monday. According to the indictment, Bill Guan, 61, led the […]
Epoch Times CFO Weidong ‘Bill’ Guan charged over $67M money laundering scheme
The chief financial officer of The Epoch Times, a New York-based weekly newspaper critical of the Chinese government, has been charged by federal investigators with money laundering, U.S. authorities said. According to an indictment filed Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice, Weidong “Bill” Guan, the CFO of the news site, which also distributes newspapers […]
EXCLUSIVE: House GOP Touts Removal Of ‘Far-Left’ Initiatives In Defense Spending Bill
Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) are touting provisions to the annual defense spending bill targeting several left-wing policies and initiatives, according to a memo on the bill’s provisions obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The HASC passed on May 22 its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), an $883 […]
Bill Maher Predicts Joe Biden ‘Is Going to F***ing Lose’
Comedian Bill Maher made a bold prediction this week following former President Trump’s conviction, telling tech journalist Kara Swisher that Joe Biden “will definitely lose.” Maher said, His podcast episode“I still support Biden, but I feel he has not handled this situation well,” he said. “I [Biden’s] I stuck my head in a bottle of […]
Bill Maher claps back at CNN’s Chris Wallace for bringing up 9/11 comments: ‘This is so old’
Bill Maher was outraged when he spoke out against CNN’s Chris Wallace after Disney-owned ABC canceled the comedian’s show over controversial comments he made about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks more than two decades ago. “First of all, this is so old,” Maher told Wallace, adding, “Really? Is it still interesting?” Maher, who is […]
Teachers, librarians caught giving ‘obscene’ materials to kids could be charged with felony under new Ohio bill
A Republican congressman from Ohio has introduced a bill that, if passed, would ban teachers and librarians from showing obscene materials to children. Last month, state Rep. Adam Matthews (R-Lebanon) HB556 This would create “criminal liability for certain teachers and librarians for promoting obscene material.” HB 556 would prevent educators from producing, publishing, or performing […]