Month: April 2023

LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (April 27): Trump Targets Biden at New Hampshire Rally; Alleged Pentagon Leaker Poses a ‘Flight Risk’: DOJ

Former President Donald Trump made a campaign stop in New Hampshire on April 27, holding his first rally since President Joe Biden launched his reelection bid. During his speech, Trump criticized Biden’s economic record and didn’t focus as much on other Republican candidates. The Air Force National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified documents appeared…


South Korean President Hails US Ties in Face of North Korea Threat During Address to Congress

The 70-year-old alliance between the United States and South Korea preserved a frail peace that allowed a new nation founded on the principles of free-market democracy to prosper, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said in an address to Congress. And now, in a “decisive moment” in history, South Korea will use its economic prowess as…


3 Orphaned Bear Cubs Rehabilitated and Returned to San Bernardino National Forest

SAN DIEGO—Three orphaned bear cubs, rehabilitated by the San Diego Humane Society’s (SDHS) Ramona Wildlife Center, are back in the wild April 27. The cubs spent nine months at the wildlife center and were released April 26 in the San Bernardino National Forest near Clark’s Ranch. “It is always our goal to rehabilitate and return…


Senate GOP Blocks Resurrection of Equal Rights Amendment

Senate Republicans blocked the efforts of Democrats on April 27 to revive the long-since-expired Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) a century after it was first introduced. Specifically, the vote was to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed in taking up a joint resolution (pdf) to disregard the deadline that Congress set decades ago for the…


California Teachers Sue School District Over Transgender Policy Allegedly Forcing Them to Lie to Parents

Teachers from a California middle school are suing officials in their school district in federal court over policies that they say force them to conceal the transgender status of young students from parents. The lawsuit happens to come after President Joe Biden’s remarks earlier this month in support of the nation’s teacher of the year…


Biden Doubles Down on Call for Clean Debt Ceiling After GOP Debt Bill Passes House

President Joe Biden is ignoring Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and his repeated call for negotiations on the nation’s debt ceiling following House passage of a Republican debt and spending bill. For weeks, Biden has refused to negotiate over raising the $31.4 trillion debt limit saying that doing so would put the “full faith and credit…


Federal Judge Rules Jan. 6 Undercover Video Will Remain Hidden From the Public

Nearly eight weeks after telling the Department of Justice he was not impressed by its arguments to keep a court seal on undercover police video from Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras ruled that the protective order keeping the video from public view will remain in place. The apparent change of heart by…


4 Republicans Explain Why They Opposed Speaker McCarthy’s Debt Limit Bill

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy led his fellow House Republicans in passing a bill on Wednesday that pairs an increase to the U.S. federal debt limit with trillions in future spending cuts. The bill passed mostly along party lines, but four Republicans joined Democrats in opposition to the debt limit arrangement—albeit for different reasons than their…


Republican Lawmakers Unveil Package to Secure US Southern Border

Republican lawmakers revealed on Thursday that five of the nine sectors of the southern border of the United States are controlled by Mexican cartels. House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green (R-Tenn), Vice Chairman Michael Guest (R-Miss.), Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) held a joint…


Mendicino Says RCMP Took ‘Decisive Action’ to Shut Down Chinese Police Stations in Canada

The Chinese police stations operating in Canada have been shut down by the RCMP, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino said as he was pressed by MPs on actions taken by his government to tackle interference. “The RCMP have taken decisive action to shut down the so-called police stations,” said Mendicino while testifying on April 27…