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The U.S. is imposing new restrictions on firearms exports and increasing scrutiny on transactions to limit diversions of guns to drug cartels, criminal groups, gangs and others, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

Columbia University students heckled House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as he visited the flashpoint of nationwide student demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza.

President Joe Biden signed into law measures to provide aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, as well as force the divestiture of social media platform TikTok from its parent company ByteDance or face a national ban.

The PLA has strong capabilities but the Americans have experience, a US military intelligence official has said.

Police arrested dozens of people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration at Yale University on Monday, just hours after Columbia University cancelled in-person classes.

Columbia University switched all classes to remote on Monday as pro-Israeli keep agitating the protesters and there are fears the protests turn violent.

The president’s latest blunder comes as a majority of Americans doubt his mental capacity for the presidential office.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday with broad bipartisan support passed a $95 billion legislative package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with the TikTok bill infused into the aid package, over bitter objections from Republican hardliners.

Police had earlier said the Florida man was being viewed as ‘sort of a conspiracy theorist’.