Grassroots organization Mom’s for Liberty seeks to mobilize everyday people against the sweeping changes to protections for women and girls in federally funded institutions that could be brought on by the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX. We spoke with the group’s co-founder, Tiffany Justice, about how her organization is empowering a nationwide response to […]
TikTok sued on Tuesday to block a new law that requires the sale of the app from its Chinese parent company or its ban from app stores and web-hosting services. About two weeks ago, President Joe Biden signed the bill, which passed both legislative chambers with broad bipartisan support. In a filing with a federal […]
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden declared on May 7 that hatred of Jews “continues to lie deep in the hearts of too many people” and urged all Americans to support his administration in its battle against “a ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world.” Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Remembrance Day event, […]
Russia’s jailing of a Falun Gong practitioner amid growing ties with the Chinese regime is stirring alarm in Washington, with the State Department and lawmakers condemning the move. A Moscow court on May 4 placed a Falun Gong practitioner in detention for nearly two months on the basis of her faith, the day after police […]
The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to mark up a resolution on May 16 to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. The committee’s reason was Mr. Garland’s refusal to turn over audio tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with President Joe Biden over his alleged mishandling of classified information, a source […]
GOP senators have demanded that the Biden administration stop its plans to accept Gazan refugees into the United States over concerns of possible terrorist ties. In a letter dated May 1 to President Joe Biden, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and 34 other GOP senators raised national security concerns if the White House allows these refugees […]
The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group to provide advice on intelligence and national security efforts. […]
After Friday’s proceedings at his so-called hush money trial ended, former President Donald Trump took aim at the Department of Justice, the New York Attorney General’s office, and other members of the government he says are persecuting him. President Trump criticized the Biden administration with respect to the April jobs report, crime in cities, and […]
President Joe Biden said this week that U.S. ally Japan is “xenophobic.” NTD spoke with Japan Chair and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Riley Walters, for more on the president’s controversial statement.
President Joe Biden appeared in Wilmington, North Carolina, on May 2 to announce an additional $3 billion for his administration’s ambitious plan to replace all of the nation’s lead pipes in the name of providing clean drinking water to everybody in the state and beyond. “There’s no–no—safe level of lead exposure. None,” he said. “The […]
President Joe Biden broke his silence this week by condemning the violence at pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses. Gerard Filitti, a civil and human rights attorney who is also a senior counsel at The Lawfare Project, tells NTD this his remarks will not affect President Biden’s campaign. He says that that’s because the President’s messaging […]
WASHINGTON—The Biden administration announced on Friday a final rule that will expand access to affordable healthcare coverage for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final rule, which will remove the prohibition on DACA recipients’ eligibility for Affordable Care Act (ACA) coverage […]
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued an executive order on Thursday directing state schools to defy the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX protections to include students identifying as transgender. The Republican governor’s order, signed on Thursday, asserts the state’s commitment to preserving the traditional understanding of sex as an “immutable characteristic of the human […]
President Joe Biden on Friday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 19 individuals, including politicians, celebrities, and civil rights leaders. “President Biden often says there is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together,” the White House said in a statement announcing the list of recipients. These 19 individuals […]
President Joe Biden stopped in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 2 to pay his respects to the law enforcement officers who were killed and wounded in the line of duty earlier this week in what is being called the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement in one incident in eight years. “We mourn for the […]
President Joe Biden’s executive policy that grants “humanitarian parole” to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals is at risk of exploitation by human traffickers. To help us understand the law, NTD spoke with Andrew Arthur, a fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies and a former immigration judge.
Attorneys general from Tennessee and Kentucky are leading six more states to challenge the Biden administration’s changes to Title IX that could open the door to men playing on women’s sports teams. To find out more, NTD spoke with the general counsel and director of legal operations for Citizens Defending Freedom, Jonathan Hullihan.
