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“Something that’s very sacred in our country — the difference between the private sector and the public sector — that’s a line that is nonexistent in the way the CCP operates,” Wray said in a Senate hearing last year. “Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price — their lives — to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth,” committee Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement. He also vowed to continue to work to free journalists like Evan Gershkovich and Austin Tice who have been imprisoned unjustly abroad. The cultural reach of TikTok is so great that Biden is campaigning on TikTok, even as the White House calls the app a national security threat. The campaign to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to a U.S. company originated with an executive order during the Trump administration.

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On explicit orders from Biden, White House officials also avoided directly attacking Johnson over the stalled aid. At the time, the House was in chaos because the Republican majority had been unable to select a speaker to replace Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who had been ousted weeks earlier at the urging of restive legislators on the right. ET and can be streamed live online at C-SPAN.org and the C-SPAN Now App. The dinner will be broadcast live on C-SPAN as well as livestreamed on C-SPAN’s website and YouTube at 8 p.m. 'Saturday Night Live' star Colin Jost is set to headline this year's event on Saturday. Looking past the opening of “Cabaret” and the flurry of awards season in May and June, Neuwirth doesn’t know what’s next after her stint in the show ends.

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg quickly called out Trump for putting “American and European soldiers at increased risk.” But in reality, the White House maneuvering to win additional funding for Ukraine started months earlier. Many European leaders have long been nervous that a second Trump term would mean decreased U.S. support for Ukraine and NATO. The European anxiety was heightened in February when Trump in a campaign speech warned NATO allies that he “would encourage” Russia to “do whatever the hell they want” to countries that don’t meet defense spending goals if he returns to the White House. Jost follows in the footsteps of previous comedians who have headlined the dinner over the years, including Roy Wood Jr., Trevor Noah, Jay Leno, Keegan-Michael Key and more. Although so much of Neuwirth’s stage work has taken advantage of her movement background, she dances very little in “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.” As a hoofer who danced through two hip replacements over the years, she’s not doing much dancing at all these days. To the role of Fräulein Schneider, Neuwirth brings both a world-weary resolve and furtive hopefulness.

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President Biden also explicitly said that he would sign the bill if it reaches his desk. And Biden followed through with that statement in signing the bill Wednesday. The bill, known as the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, would make it illegal for software with ties to U.S. adversaries to be distributed by U.S. app stores or supported by U.S. web hosts. Within the bill’s definitions, ownership by an entity based in an adversary country, like ByteDance in China, counts. In March, the House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a new bill designed to pressure ByteDance into selling TikTok.

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The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. Proceeds raised at the dinner, which is a celebration of the First Amendment, go towards the WHCA and the journalists who work to cover the president. This year, Colin Jost, who co-hosts Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment with Michael Che, is the featured entertainer at the event that attracts A-listers, comedians, journalists, prominent politicians and more. President Joe Biden is also set to be in attendance, as well as First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff. Your tax-deductible donation funds lung disease and lung cancer research, new treatments, lung health education, and more.

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The fast-tracked bill passed a full vote in the House on March 13. And the last stage — a race to the president’s desk that led some aides to nickname the bill the “Thunder Run” — played out in seven weeks from when it was publicly introduced, remarkably fast for Washington. A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app. At frustrating moments during the negotiations, Biden urged his aides to “just keep talking, keep working,” according to a senior administration official, who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal discussions.

According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants. Biden began the roast with a focus on Trump, calling him “sleepy Don,” in reference to courtroom scenes of Trump appearing to nap during his New York criminal trial and a nod to a nickname Trump has used against Biden. He went on to say that despite being of similar age, the two presidential hopefuls have little else in common.

Biden’s speech before nearly 3,000 people was followed by entertainer Colin Jost from “Saturday Night Live.” Academy Award winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Hamm and Chris Pine were among other stars. Chants accused U.S. journalists of covering the war too little and misrepresenting it. “Western media, we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point.

Trump’s threats against the company culminated in a plan to force TikTok to sell its U.S. operations to Oracle in late 2020. In the process, TikTok rejected an acquisition offer from Microsoft but ultimately didn’t sell to Oracle, either, in spite of Trump’s efforts to steer the acquisition to benefit close ally and Republican mega donor Larry Ellison. Because the U.S. has not produced any public evidence to back up its serious claims, there’s a major disconnect between how politicians feel about TikTok and how most Americans do. For many TikTok users, the U.S. crackdown is just one more way that politicians are out of touch with young people and don’t understand how they use the internet. For them — and other skeptics of the U.S. government’s claims — the situation looks like pure political posturing between two countries with bad blood, sometimes with a dash of racism.

“We have to take this serious — eight years ago we could have written it off as ‘Trump talk,’ but not after Jan. 6,” Biden told the audience, referring to a mob that stormed the Capitol in 2021 after Trump encouraged supporters to stop the certification of Biden’s election win. “Without TikTok, you can make Facebook bigger, and I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people,” Trump told CNBC. Trump’s tune on TikTok may have changed following a recent meeting with billionaire Republican donor Jeffrey Yass, who owns a 15% stake in TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance.

Far-right Republicans have adamantly opposed sending more money for Ukraine, with the war appearing to have no end in sight. Biden in August requested more than $20 billion to keep aid flowing into Ukraine, but the money was stripped out of a must-pass spending bill. Biden immediately approved sending Ukraine $1 billion in military assistance, the first installment from about $61 billion allocated for Ukraine. The package includes air defense capabilities, artillery rounds, armored vehicles and other weapons to shore up Ukrainian forces who have seen morale sink as Russian President Vladimir Putin has racked up win after win.

Counterprotests back Israel’s offensive and accuse pro-Palestinian activists of antisemitism. Biden, like most of his predecessors, used the glitzy annual White House Correspondents’ Assn. banquet to jab at his rival, Donald Trump. He followed the jokes with solemn warnings about what he said would happen if Trump won the presidency again. "This is definitely the exact kind of house where you would dream," Gambino said in an interview with USA TODAY. "It's a very special house where people immediately get, you know, emotionally connected when they're there." The home at 2538 Sundown Drive is for sale at $2.3 million, listed by Compass agents Carl Gambino and Ariel Putman, and was recently shared on real estate fan account Zillow Gone Wild.

Jost is best known as the co-anchor of the long-running “Weekend Update” segment on “SNL,” and audiences may be unaccustomed to seeing him do a solo stand-up routine. He used his moment at the WHCD to dish out insults across the political spectrum. He cautioned President Biden to step more carefully as he walked up the stairs to Air Force Once and poked fun at Rupert Murdoch, the force behind Fox Corp. and Fox News Channel. Which is strange – I didn’t think there was a step down from Fox News,” Jost said. "Suicide affects everyone. It doesn't matter your age, race or gender," Emhoff said.

The bill marked a fresh push by the U.S. government to separate the company from its Chinese ownership or force it out of the country. “You don’t get many opportunities like this on a major issue,” said Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the Republican majority leader. He was one of 15 lawmakers, aides and officials directly involved in shaping and passing the bill who were interviewed for this article. “The fact is that it’s going to take some time for us to dig out of the hole that was created by six months of delay,” he said. Still, longer term, it remains uncertain if Ukraine, after months of losses and massive damage to its infrastructure, can make enough progress to sustain American political support before burning through the latest influx of money.