Author: Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner

Chinese leader Xi Jinping led Chinese government officials in blaming the United States for struggles in his country, with the strident anti-U.S. rhetoric by China’s strongman quickly being echoed by his top deputy. Xi made his remarks Monday as tensions have escalated between the U.S. and China following a Chinese spy balloon being shot down…

EXCLUSIVE — The top public school in the United States received hundreds of thousands of dollars from groups tied to China’s military. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST), part of Fairfax County Public Schools, is consistently ranked as the top high school in the nation. However, this element of its ties to…

A top House Republican investigator set a new hearing this week to blast the Treasury Department for failing to hand over suspicious activity reports linked to Hunter Biden following more than a year of the Biden administration dragging its feet. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the new chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee for…

House Republicans are pushing back against efforts to undermine “so-called” whistleblower claims alleging wrongdoing and politicization at the Justice Department and the FBI. House Judiciary Committee Republicans released a report just ahead of the 2022 midterm elections on the “politicization” of the DOJ and FBI, including its handling of investigations related to Hunter Biden and…

A Chinese military company that Hunter Biden’s investment firm teamed up with is now assisting the Russian air force in the war in Ukraine. The BHR Partners investment firm, which counted President Joe Biden’s son as a board member and 10% stakeholder, worked with AVIC Automotive, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation…

Questions remain about the origins of COVID-19 as the Energy Department assessed that COVID-19 likely emerged from a Wuhan lab and as the FBI confirmed that it has long believed in the lab leak hypothesis. The intelligence community still remains largely divided on the lab leak versus natural origin hypotheses, and it is unclear whether…

A longtime Wuhan lab collaborator with ties to Dr. Anthony Fauci has teamed up with the Russian government to suggest hedgehogs could be partly to blame for the outbreak of coronaviruses. Peter Daszak shared a study analyzing a novel betacoronavirus, dubbed “MOW-BatCoV,” was found in bats captured in the Moscow region in 2015, and he…

The head of FBI counterintelligence refused to say whether 50 former intelligence officials signing the letter baselessly alleging Russian involvement in the Hunter Biden laptop stories in October 2020 harms the trust the public has for the U.S. intelligence community. Alan Kohler, the assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division since early 2020, declined to…

The Biden administration faces a self-admitted “trust question” when pushing to renew certain powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, with Republicans on Capitol Hill sure to point to Trump-Russia FISA abuses. The reauthorization, which must be done before it expires at the end of 2023, will meet pushback from at least some congressional Republicans,…

Top Biden administration national security officials kicked off a campaign to reauthorize specific authorities under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ahead of expected pushback from congressional Republicans. Originally conceived as mainly a counterterrorism tool in the wake of the deadly 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda, the Biden administration sought on Tuesday to emphasize the role…