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Virginia Sens. Tim Kaine (D) and Mark Warner (D) say they won’t agree to fast track a one-week extension of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act unless colleagues commit to holding a vote on their amendment to eliminate a provision to add five new round-trip flights to Reagan National Airport. The senators argue that…

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said he received a voicemail in which someone threatened to “find” and “shoot” him over a potential TikTok ban Wednesday. “This is a voicemail my office received last night,” Tillis said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “TikTok’s misinformation campaign is pushing people to call their…

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stated in an interview on Wednesday that users would gain from the controversial bill aiming to make TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, sell the popular app or potentially face a ban in the United States. After a classified intelligence briefing on TikTok, Cruz argued for blocking the Chinese Communist…

The leader of TikTok expressed dissatisfaction after the House approved a bill on Wednesday that could prohibit the well-liked social media app and urged users to contact their U.S. senators and urge them to vote against the bill, which now goes to the upper chamber. In a video shared on TikTok, CEO Shou Chew…