The House this week passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act with bipartisan support. Jonathan Hullihan, the general counsel and director of legal operations at Citizens Defending Freedom, tells NTD that he is skeptical about the bill giving the Department of Education more authority.
Moscow authorities on Friday raided the homes of Falun Gong practitioners—a group heavily persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party—amid Russia’s closer ties with communist China. Levi Browde, executive director of the Falun Dafa Information Center, says targeting Falun Gong allows Russia to “get in the good graces” of the Chinese communist regime.
The Los Angeles Lakers parted ways with head coach Darvin Ham on Friday, concluding his two-year run at the helm. This unexpected move throws the spotlight on the Lakers’s quest for a new leader, one who can navigate LeBron James’s twilight years and shepherd the team back to championship glory. Lakers Vice President of Basketball […]
The UK’s landmark Cass Review concluded that the use of puberty blockers and hormonal treatments for children is completely unsupported by scientific evidence. As a result, Scotland and England have stopped prescribing these drugs to minors. Colin Wright, NTD contributor, evolutionary biologist, and the founding editor of Reality’s Last Stand, tells NTD that the Cass […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on May 2, probing worldwide threats against the United States. They focused on China and how the country is strengthening its ties to Russia and other malign actors.
Residents in the Gaza Strip, displaced to Rafah, are now considering leaving Rafah because of potential Israeli ground operations. On Thursday, Israel’s prime minister said they will do what is necessary to win the war, including in Rafah.
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding, who served as senior director for strategic planning on the White House National Security Council, tells NTD about his assessment of the Chinese communist regime and global events. He includes comments on the war in Ukraine, trade relations, unrest in the Middle East, and tensions in the Indo-Pacific.
Former President Donald Trump gave a substantially different answer when asked on May 2 whether he would testify in his own defense at trial. “Well I’m not allowed to testify, I’m under a gag order,” he told reporters before leaving court on Thursday afternoon. On several previous occasions, President Trump’s response was an emphatic “yes” […]
President Joe Biden on May 2 decried the violence stemming from pro-Palestinian protesters across American college campuses. “Violent protest is not protected,” he said in an unscheduled speech from the White House, affirming his dedication to both the right to free speech and peaceful protests and the rule of law, adding that America is not […]
Just before daybreak, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and other law enforcement agencies had encircled defiant protesters at the University of California’s Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after declaring the pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus illegal. Some of the protesters disregarded messages sent out that told them to leave and even chanted “We’re not leaving” […]
Former Team USA soccer standout Carli Lloyd happily announced that she and her husband are expecting their first child in October. The 41-year-old retired three years ago after winning two Olympic gold medals and two World Cup titles.
House lawmakers last week sent a letter to the IRS, calling on the agency to investigate U.S.-based nonprofit groups with financial links to China, which are helping to organize anti-Israel protests. Retired Col. Grant Newsham, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the author of “When China Attacks,” tells NTD that supporting […]
A new law went into effect in Utah on May 1, which stops health insurance companies from paying for organ transplants in countries such as China, due to the Chinese regime’s practice of forced organ harvesting. Dr. Torsten Trey, founder and executive director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting, says more doctors should learn about […]
WESTWOOD, Calif.—Students walking past a barricaded quad area May 1, where violent clashes erupted overnight on the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, said they feared for the safety of their classmates. Hundreds of student protesters sympathizing with Palestinians, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, occupied Royce Quad on […]
Documents released by the Department of Homeland Security show that more than 160,000 migrants were flown into Florida cities during an eight-month period in 2023, with another nearly 40,000 entering other major U.S. cities. The data was subpoenaed by the House Homeland Security Committee and released on Tuesday. The CHNV parole program, formerly known as […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz, on Wednesday as the United States hopes to facilitate a temporary ceasefire in the ongoing Israel–Hamas war and advance other humanitarian considerations amid the conflict. “The Secretary discussed ongoing efforts to reach an immediate […]
A group of six Republican state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Department of Education on Tuesday over what they said were “radical and illegal” changes to Title IX rules. The lawsuit, led by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, was filed in the U.S. District Court […]
The judge in former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush-money” trial ruled that the former president violated the gag order with nine social media posts, and fined him $9,000. Janice Hisle, reporter at The Epoch Times, says the gag order is one-sided, therefore making it very debatable.
