Cornell student arrested in connection with antisemitic threats

A 21-year-old student at Cornell University has been arrested and slapped with federal charges following social media posts threatening violence against Jewish students. Patrick Dai, a junior at the Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York, has been charged by the FBI with posting threats to kill or injure another using interstate communications. The posts […]

First foreigners leave Gaza through Rafah crossing

Hundreds of people holding foreign passports began leaving Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on Wednesday for the first time since Israel declared war on Hamas following the terrorist organization’s massive October 7 surprise attack. Five American aid workers were among those who passed through Rafah—the only border crossing between Egypt and the […]

Senate confirms Jack Lew as new Ambassador to Israel

The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm former Treasury Secretary Jacob “Jack” Lew as Ambassador to Israel. The confirmation comes amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza following the terrorist organization’s massive October 7 surprise attack on Israel, and as Congress is debating whether to tie military aid to Israel with further military aid to […]

House Republican moves to make it harder to oust Speaker

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) on Monday introduced a resolution to increase the number of Representatives needed to bring a motion to vacate the Speaker’s chair from the current one. Reducing the number of lawmakers who can call for a motion to vacate—essentially a vote of no confidence against the Speaker—down to a single Representative was […]

FBI Director warns of Hamas-motivated terror threats

FBI Director Chris Wray told the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday that Hamas’ massive October 7 terror attack on Israel could motivate threats similar to those from terrorist organizations like ISIS in years’ past. While citing law enforcement assessments, Wray cautioned that there is no indication that Hamas intends to attack inside the U.S.—nor […]

House Republicans rush to avoid another shutdown deadline

House Republicans, under new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), have been moving quickly to try to pass appropriations ahead of a government shutdown deadline that’s now just 2.5 weeks away. Congress passed a stopgap measure to temporarily fund the government on September 30—the initial deadline to pass a federal budget for fiscal year 2024. That temporary […]

Senate Democrats to subpoena Supreme Court Justices’ wealthy benefactors

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday they plan to subpoena Republican donors Harlan Crow and Robin Arkley II, and conservative activist Leonard Leo on their funding luxury travel for Supreme Court Justices.  Crow’s role as a benefactor of Justice Clarence Thomas has come under scrutiny over in recent months due to extensive investigative […]

Austin and Blinken to push Congress to aid both Israel and Ukraine

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were set to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that the U.S. should immediately send aid to both Israel and Ukraine.  The two Cabinet Secretaries will press their case for funding President Biden’s $105 billion emergency aid request to fund not only Israel’s […]

Supreme Court hears arguments about public officials blocking critics on social media

The Supreme Court on Tuesday hears arguments in two cases on whether public officials can block their critics on their personal social media accounts. One of the two cases, O’Connor-Ratcliff v Garnier, asks whether a public official engages in state action  subject to the First Amendment by blocking a critic on his or her personal […]

Scuffle breaks out at January 6 defendant’s hearing

A physical altercation broke out in a DC courtroom Monday, and Federal Agents were compelled to tackle a January 6 defendant to the ground. Vitali GossJankowski has already been convicted of several charges related to the deadly January 6, 2021 attack upon the U.S. Capitol, but when U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman ordered GossJankowski […]

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