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A U.S. congressional committee has requested documents from the University of Pennsylvania regarding the school’s “abysmal” response to antisemitism on its campus, the committee said Wednesday. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, sent a letter to the university’s leadership asking for all reports of antisemitic occurrences on campus … Read more

The last time President Joe Biden visited Superior, Wisconsin, he warned of the danger posed by the deteriorating John A. Blatnik Memorial Bridge — pointing out the decades-old corrosion that had weakened the overpass connecting the two port cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota and vowing to fix it. Biden is returning to that bridge at … Read more

Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., introduced legislation Thursday that would ban federal authorities from removing razor wire or other barriers from the U.S.-Mexico border. Collins’ move comes after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a narrow 5-4 ruling earlier this week allowing federal authorities to do just that. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is in a pitched … Read more

Author to face to face with former US president again as proceedings resume in New York court after Covid delay Sign up for the Trump on trial newsletter Donald Trump is in the courtroom. The jurors in seats 2 and 3 are going to be socially distanced “out of an abundance of caution,” judge Kaplan … Read more

A super PAC supporting former President Trump’s 2024 White House run hauled in over $46 million in fundraising during the second half of last year. Officials with Make America Great Again Inc. (MAGA Inc.) also confirmed to Fox News that they started the new year with more than $23 million in their coffers. MAGA Inc.’s … Read more

Lobbying group spent nearly $30m on ads touting the ‘clean energy’ potential of propane This story is co-published with Heated Members of a propane industry lobbying group strategized to downplay the full climate impacts of propane and market it as renewable or “clean energy”, recordings reviewed by the climate newsletter Heated and the Guardian reveal. … Read more

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cast doubt on an emerging deal to tighten immigration laws and provide aid to Ukraine.

Fox Corporation must face Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation suit, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday, denying a motion to dismiss defamation claims against Fox News’ parent company.

Navarro, trade adviser during Trump presidency, convicted over refusal to comply with subpoena from January 6 committee The former Trump adviser Peter Navarro faces sentencing on Thursday on two counts of contempt of Congress, arising from his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the January 6 attack on Congress. … Read more

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, says she will not endorse former President Trump for president, even if he were to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 election.  Collins, the ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Committee, is a moderate legislator and one of seven Republicans who voted to convict Trump on the impeachment charge of … Read more