TIK TOK: The House yesterday passed a bill with strong support from both parties that would force the sale of the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok or ban it with the US.   Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Wisconsin Republican who is among …

REPLAY: The rematch is on. Joe Biden and Donald Trump both won enough delegates in primary races yesterday to put them over the top for their party’s presidential nomination. It will be the first time in 70 years that candidates have …

HUNGER GAMES: Seven Democratic senators and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont have urged President Biden to stop providing weapons to Israel until it stops restrictions on humanitarian aid going into Gaza. The eight senators said in a letter that Biden is in …

RED CARPET: “Oppenheimer,” the movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, won Best Picture, Best Actor, and five other Oscars at the Academy Awards last night.   “Barbie,” the highest grossing movie of 2023, scored only a …

YES, HE’S OLD: President Biden is out there on the campaign trail confronting the age issue and telling voters to get over it. “Look, I’m not a young guy. That’s no secret,” says a smiling Biden in a new television ad. “But …

SUCH A STATE: Joe Biden was energetic, forceful, confrontative, and combatively partisan in his State of the Union speech last night, a performance designed to show the doubters that at 81 he’s fit for a second term in the White House. …

SUCH A STATE: President Biden delivers his State of the Union address tonight to possibly the largest national audience he will have before the November election, an enormous opportunity to sell himself to unenthused voters.   His biggest task will be to …

ON THE BALLOT: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterday that Colorado cannot bar Donald Trump from the election ballot under the 14th Amendment insurrection clause. This also voids attempts in Maine and Illinois to keep Trump off the ballot.   The Court did …

THE POLITICS OF WAR: Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza in stronger language than has been coming from Biden administration but still falling short of condemning Israel for the brutal war it’s waging against Hamas …

WAR ON HUNGER: As many as 100 Palestinians died after Israeli troops opened fire on a hungry crowd of people waiting for an aid convoy, resulting in a chain of events in which victims died of gunshots, were run over by …