On Thursday’s Front Page: The Chinese Foreign Ministry has refused to answer questions about ByteDance being forced to divest from TikTok in the U.S., D.C. residents say they’re still wary after often-brazen violence last year, and more.


House Speaker Mike Johnson called on Columbia President Minouche Shafik to resign over her handling of anti-Israel protest turmoil, chiding school officials for allowing “lawless agitators and radicals” to take over the campus.
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China’s Foreign Ministry refused to answer questions on Wednesday about a new U.S. ultimatum ordering China-based ByteDance to sell the American arm of its wildly popular app TikTok or face a ban in the U.S., in sharp contrast to the loud approach Beijing and the app’s supporters have previously pushed.
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D.C. residents say they’re still wary after the rampant and often brazen violence that plagued the city in 2023, despite assurances from local officials and police leaders that every major crime category is down so far this year.
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Former President Donald Trump has shown an uncanny ability to grow politically stronger in the face of numerous legal challenges that threaten to land him in jail and would almost certainly have doomed more conventional candidates.
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Republicans in critical congressional races are reshaping their stances on abortion, in some cases backing away from stricter limits in the wake of public backlash.
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China’s military is conducting research on sea-based neurotoxins, raising new fears among U.S. officials and analysts that Beijing is secretly developing deadly biological weapons for use in a future conflict.
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