Iran’s president has warned that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response‚ as the region braces for potential Israeli retaliation after Iran’s attack over the weekend. President Ebrahim Raisi spoke Wednesday at an annual army parade that was moved to a barracks north of the capital‚ Tehran‚ from its usual venue on a highway in the city’s southern outskirts. Iranian authorities gave no explanation for its relocation‚ and state television didn’t broadcast it...

The Chinese Embassy has held meetings with congressional staff to lobby against the legislation that would force a sale of TikTok‚ according to two of the Capitol Hill staffers. TikTok‚ which is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance‚ has repeatedly denied a relationship with the Chinese government and sought to distance itself from its Chinese origins. But now‚ with the fate of legislation to force the sale of the company facing an uncertain path forward in the Senate‚ the Chinese...

Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Republicans that the House would vote Saturday evening on his foreign aid package for Israel and Ukraine‚ pushing through resistance in his own party to advance a long-stalled national security spending package for U.S. allies. His announcement came amid a crush of opposition from Republicans who are vehemently against sending more aid to Ukraine‚ and have vented for days as congressional aides race to write the legislation Mr. Johnson proposed on...

American teens are smuggling migrants illegally into the United States at alarming rates. And law enforcement officials told Newsweek that money is the No. 1 reason that juveniles are entering into transnational crime. Human smuggling is defined by the federal government as the illegal importation of people into the county by evading federal immigration laws‚ as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of noncitizens already illegally in the country. U.S. Immigration and Customs...

Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter has been given a lifetime ban by the NBA for breaching betting rules. An NBA investigation found the 24-year-old disclosed confidential information about his fitness to sports bettors and limited his participation in games for betting purposes. Porter also bet on NBA games using a friend's online account. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Porter's &;quot;blatant violations&;quot; warranted the &;quot;most severe punishment&;quot;. &;quot;There is nothing more important than...

A quartet of Columbia University officials largely avoided a viral breakout moment in a Wednesday House hearing on antisemitism‚ but they still struggled in multiple areas when peppered with questions from Republican lawmakers.   The viral question that last year stumped the presidents of Harvard University‚ the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was asked early of the Columbia officials.  Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) asked all...

Another state university system is moving to eliminate diversity‚ equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements and roles from its campuses‚ as part of a growing backlash to DEI ideology in schools across the country. The University of North Carolina (UNC) board of governors committee voted in less than four minutes on Wednesday to repeal and replace the system's existing diversity and inclusion policy and replace it with a different policy‚ The Associated Press reported. Seventeen college...

A California bill that would make purchasing child sex a felony up from a misdemeanor moved forward on Tuesday‚ but not before Democrats made significant changes. The bipartisan bill would raise solicitation of a minor from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by up to four years in prison‚ and a fine of up to $25‚000. The bill would also require a person convicted of soliciting a minor to register as a sex offender for 10 years. However‚ the new version of the bill would only allow...

A watchdog group is calling on the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using video of House proceedings in the promotion of her election campaign. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust’s report highlighted four instances in which Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign social media account reposted videos of herself speaking on the House floor. Federal law and House rules prohibit congressional members from utilizing official House resources‚...

“You hear people say, ‘Well, we did the best we could with what we knew.’ No, they did not," he says.