Tag: threat

LIVE NOW: Children Under Threat: Drag Queen Story Hour: A Discussion by the New York Young Republican Club

Drag queen story hour events have become the new culture war battleground in New York and other big cities such as Dallas. Ashley St. Clair, a conservative strategist and author of “Elephants Are Not Birds,” and Matt Antar, New York Young Republican Club finance chairman, host of the MANTAR Podcast, and Gays Against Groomers contributor,…


Children Under Threat: Drag Queen Story Hour: A Discussion by the New York Young Republican Club

Drag queen story hour events have become the new culture war battleground in New York and other big cities such as Dallas. Ashley St. Clair, a conservative strategist and author of “Elephants Are Not Birds,” and Matt Antar, New York Young Republican Club finance chairman, host of the MANTAR Podcast, and Gays Against Groomers contributor,…


LIVE NOW: Senators Announce Bipartisan Bill to Address Technology Threats From TikTok and Other Adversaries

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and a bipartisan group of co-sponsors hold a press conference at 3:00 p.m. ET on March 7 to announce legislation that will comprehensively address the ongoing threat posed…


Senators Announce Bipartisan Bill to Address Technology Threats From TikTok and Other Adversaries

Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; John Thune (R-S.D.), ranking member of the Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, and a bipartisan group of co-sponsors hold a press conference at 3:00 p.m. ET on March 7 to announce legislation that will comprehensively address the ongoing threat posed…


US Blacklists 37 Companies, Including China’s BGI, Inspur

The Biden administration on Thursday added 37 companies to a trade, including units of Chinese genetics company BGI and Chinese cloud computing firm Inspur, in a move that promises to further ratchet up tensions with Beijing. The Commerce Department, which oversees export controls, added BGI Research and BGI Tech Solutions (Hongkong), over allegations that the…


Beyond Balloons: The Other Threats Posed by China, and What Can Be Done to Counter Them

Commentary “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon,” or so the great writer A.A. Milne would have us believe. In Milne’s defense, this line was written long before China got into the balloon-making business. Unless you happen to live under a rock on a distant planet, you are no doubt familiar with the infamous Chinese…


North Korea Makes Fresh Threats, US Bombers Fly After ICBM Test

SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea said Sunday its latest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test was meant to further bolster its “fatal” nuclear attack capacity and threatened additional powerful steps over upcoming military drills between the United States and South Korea. The United States responded by flying long-range supersonic bombers in a show of force later Sunday…


Report: FBI Says Bomb Threat to Texas Flight Not Credible

EL PASO, Texas—A bomb threat against an American Airlines flight that diverted the plane from the tarmac of a Texas airport Friday was not credible, a law enforcement official said. An FBI official said the passengers on the noon flight from El Paso, Texas, to Chicago were not in danger despite the threat, KVIA-TV reported….


LIVE NOW: House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing on Pressing Threat of Chinese Communist Party

U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 7 on “The Pressing Threat of the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Defense.” The committee will receive testimony from Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, former national security advisor; Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former commander, U.S. Pacific Command; and Dr….


House Armed Services Committee Holds Hearing on Pressing Threat of Chinese Communist Party

U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee holds a hearing at 10 a.m. ET on Feb. 7 on “The Pressing Threat of the Chinese Communist Party to U.S. National Defense.” The committee will receive testimony from Ambassador Robert C. O’Brien, former national security advisor; Admiral Harry B. Harris Jr., USN (Ret.), former commander, U.S. Pacific Command; and Dr….