Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., announced that he will soon release a report revealing new information about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to his office, the report will include previously undisclosed documents and a mountain of circumstantial evidence that the virus likely began after a lab accident in Wuhan. “We have enough pieces put…

Has the federal government gone too far with its investigation of Twitter and controversial owner Elon Musk? The Federal Trade Commission has demanded the social media giant turn over all internal communications related to Musk as well as details on journalists who had access to its records for the recent “Twitter Files” reports. FTC head…

The United States Air Force has submitted its budget request for fiscal year 2024. The USAF wants $215 billion, a slight increase over last year’s figure. If approved, the Air Force wants to invest the extra funding in developing and buying the technology it said America needs to maintain air dominance over countries like China–specifically…

President Joe Biden is poised to sign an executive order designed to increase the number of gun background checks; the legal stay of tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in the U.S. is set to expire this spring; China is reopening its borders this week; and Uber and Lyft scored a victory in court. These…

It only took 48 hours for Silicon Valley Bank, formerly the nation’s 16th largest bank, to collapse. Then Signature Bank followed suit, while First Republic Bank and others showed signs of contagion. SVB, with roughly $200 billion in deposits, became the second biggest bank failure in U.S. history last week. This week, regulators are scrambling to…

President Joe Biden on Monday said the U.S. banking system is safe in the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. The banking failures caused concerns of broader contagion in the sector. “Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe,” Biden said before departing on a trip to the West…

The Justice Department is officially coming out in support of the RESTRICT Act. The bipartisan proposal would allow the federal government to regulate and ban foreign technology that is deemed a national security risk. This bill applies to all companies that pose a national security risk including Huawei, ZTE and Russia’s Kaspersky Lab. Lately, the…

The Pentagon is blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence of Russian war crimes with the International Criminal Court. A New York Times report states the Defense Department is concerned that assisting The Hague will set a precedent of cooperation and lead to the possible prosecution of Americans. Congress made an exception for this type of cooperation…

Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, two of the journalists credited with publishing “The Twitter Files,” testified at a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Thursday. Taibbi and Shellenberger published Twitter Files threads on the social media app after Elon Musk gave them access to internal communication.…

A pair of controversial bills approved by the Washington, D.C. City Council has put the district in the national spotlight and at odds with the federal government. Congress is expected to use its oversight power over city matters to override a crime bill that would reduce maximum sentences for violent crimes in D.C. The House…