Joseph Clark

Mountain of tough-on-China bills stuck in Congress despite bipartisan fury at Beijing

Just three of Congress' record 238 bills targeting Beijing in 2021 passed both chambers, with key legislation languishing in committees.

December 27, 2021

Kerik wants public deposition to House Jan. 6 committee

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik is demanding a deposition in public after being subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 committee.

December 24, 2021

Russian court hammers Google, Facebook with huge fines for content the Kremlin labeled illegal

A Russian court on Friday slapped the parent companies of Google and Facebook with record-high fines for failing to take down content that the Kremlin deemed illegal.

December 24, 2021

Trump wins hypothetical 2024 rematch with Biden: Poll

Voters would pick former President Donald Trump over President Biden by six points if the 2024 election were held today, revealed a new poll.

December 24, 2021

Georgia election workers sue OAN, Giuliani over 2020 fraud claims

Two Georgia election officials are suing the parent company of news outlet One America News Network and former President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani over election fraud claims following the 2020 presidential election.

December 24, 2021

Trump spars with conservative host Candace Owens over vaccines, receives praise from White House

Former President Donald Trump is pushing back against vaccine skepticism and, in a rare truce, the current White House is echoing his remarks.

December 24, 2021

Omicron grounds thousands of holiday flights

Airlines have canceled thousands of flights on Christmas Eve as cases of the new omicron variant skyrocket.

December 24, 2021

Targets of House Jan. 6 committee strike back with lawsuits challenging subpoenas for phone records

Rally organizers, journalists and former Trump advisers caught up in the House Jan. 6 committee's sweeping troll for phone records are fighting back in court.

December 24, 2021

GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn: U.S. should focus on its own border before Ukraine’s

Rep. Madison Cawthorn wants the U.S. to focus on pressing issues at home before spinning its wheels over the brewing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

December 23, 2021

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, wife splitting after a brief marriage

Rep. Madison Cawthorn is divorcing his wife after less than a year of marriage.

December 23, 2021

China puts 13 million residents in lockdown ahead of the Winter Olympics

China has put 13 million residents on lockdown amid a spike in coronavirus cases as the nation prepares to host the Winter Olympics in Beijing in a matter of weeks.

December 23, 2021

House Jan. 6 panel sets sights on Jim Jordan in expanding probe of Trump-allied lawmakers

The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Wednesday sent a letter to Rep. Jim Jordan seeking further information regarding his alleged correspondence with President Donald Trump.

December 22, 2021

Former Sen. Chuck Robb, wife hospitalized after Virginia house fire

Former Sen. Chuck Robb and his wife, Lynda, have been hospitalized after sustaining injuries from a fire that engulfed their home in McLean, Virginia, early Wednesday.

December 22, 2021

Harvard professor found guilty of lying about his links to China and its efforts to steal technology

The former chair of Harvard's chemistry department has been convicted of lying to federal authorities about his ties to the Chinese government and a Communist Party program prosecutors say is designed to steal technology secrets.

December 22, 2021

Russia’s hockey team sports Soviet uniforms, riling its European neighbors

Russia has stoked further tensions with its European neighbors when its national hockey team took the ice against Finland sporting Soviet-era jerseys.

December 21, 2021

House Jan. 6 committee goes after GOP lawmaker for correspondence, escalates probe of Trump allies

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Monday sent a letter to a Republican congressman requesting his correspondence with the Trump White House about installing a Trump ally as acting attorney general in the final days of the administration.

December 20, 2021

Jan. 6 committee open to issuing subpoenas for sitting members of Congress

The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is leaving open the possibility of compelling testimony from sitting members of Congress as part of its probe.

December 20, 2021

Biden floats doubling child tax credit payments in February if January payments skipped

President Biden wants to double the child tax credit to send one-time payments of as much as $600 per child to most parents in February.

December 17, 2021

Roger Stone pleads Fifth before Jan. 6 panel, calls the probe ‘witch hunt 3.0’

He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination for every question during a deposition that lasted 90 minutes.

December 17, 2021

Jan. 6 panel subpoenas retired Army colonel linked to election-fraud PowerPoint

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Thursday subpoenaed the retired Army colonel behind a plan to overturn the 2020 election that circulated the White House during the final days of the Trump administration.

December 16, 2021