Alana Goodman

The Department of Energy loan office quadrupled its available lending budget to over $240 billion this week, as Biden officials rush to approve a flurry of "green energy" loans before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D., Wis.) said this week that men and boys' competing in women's and girls' sports is "not a burning issue," even as she faces a barrage of negative attack ads over transgender issues.

The Washington Post’s opinion editor privately blamed owner Jeff Bezos for barring the paper’s editorial board from publishing an endorsement of Kamala Harris, likening the decision to a "bomb" that "went off and now we are picking up the pieces," according to an audio recording of a tense and angry Monday editorial meeting. The recording was obtained and reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.

Kamala Harris once suggested it "would be great" to ban all gun ownership but said such a policy was unlikely and a "long way off" due to constitutional obstacles, according to a previously unreported audio recording.

At a 2014 congressional hearing held to mark the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tim Walz, then a congressman representing Minnesota’s first district, recalled being in Hong Kong when the Chinese Communist Party crushed the student protests that had roiled the country since mid-April of 1989. The unforgettable crackdown came on June 4 of that year.

Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz "was so proud of his extensive experience" traveling to China that he "occasionally used to exaggerate it" by claiming to have visited the communist country twice as often as he actually did, Minnesota Public Radio reported on Monday.

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin, who has been slamming her opponent for taking donations from the pharma industry, raked in over $90,000 from candidate political action committees backed by drug and medical companies since last year.

Congress is probing Chinese automakers over concerns that electric cars sold in the United States could be used by the Chinese government for "nefarious purposes" such as data collection, spying on American citizens through in-car cameras, and remotely hijacking vehicles.

Corporate tax hike advocate Tim Walz had his China travel company shut down by the Nebraska government for failing to pay a minor business operating tax in 1998, according to corporate records.

As a high school teacher in the 1990s, Democratic vice presidential candidate and Minnesota governor Tim Walz appeared to extol life under Chinese communism, telling his students that it is a system in which "everyone shares" and gets free food and housing.