Nick Saban testifies in support of bill to regulate NIL rules: “It’s become an arms race”

Nick Saban testifies in support of bill to regulate NIL rules: “It’s become an arms race” – CBS News Watch CBS News Retired Alabama football coach Nick Saban testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in support of legislation to regulate the NCAA’s name, image and likeness rules. Kelly O’Grady reports. Source link

Navy’s acting secretary says $14 billion Taiwan arms sale put on “pause” over Iran war

The acting secretary of the U.S. Navy said Thursday that arm sales to Taiwan had been put on “pause” to ensure that the American military had sufficient munitions for its Iran operations. Asked at a congressional hearing about the stalled $14 billion weapons purchase by Taiwan, Acting Secretary Hung Cao said that “right now we’re … Read more

Kentucky Republicans race to replace McConnell while carefully keeping him at arm’s length

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell is considered such a titan in his home state that Kentucky lawmakers voted to put a statue of him alongside Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol. After overcoming polio as a child, McConnell rose to become the longest-serving Senate leader in history and helped secure a conservative majority on … Read more

Sen. Raphael Warnock says Supreme Court’s voting rights decision “poured fuel on this redistricting arms race”

Washington — Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia called the Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down Louisiana’s congressional map and narrow the Voting Rights Act “a massive and devastating blow,” while warning of its implications for the redistricting fight.  “The court, sadly, poured fuel on this redistricting arms race,” Warnock said Sunday on … Read more

Los Angeles woman arrested on Iranian arms trafficking charge

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors said a 44-year-old Los Angeles woman was arrested Saturday night at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of helping Iran traffic weapons to Sudan, which is in its fourth year of a bloody civil war. Shamim Mafi will face charges that she brokered the sale of “drones, bombs, bomb fuses, … Read more

Dozens of Dems flip on Israel, vote to ban arms sales in protest of Iran war

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! More Senate Democrats than ever before voted to halt arms sales and military bulldozers to Israel as an act of protest against President Donald Trump’s war in Iran. The late-night vote on Wednesday, which saw both of Sen. Bernie Sanders’, I-Vt., resolutions fail, signaled a shift among … Read more