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On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) came out in opposition to a bipartisan effort to ban TikTok, condemning Republicans and Democrats for a move he said could chill First Amendment-protected speech."I hope saner minds will reflect on which is more dangerous: videos of teenagers dancing, or the precedent of the US government banning speech," Paul said on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Transgender people in Tennessee fear retaliatory violence after Nashville police said that a recent school shooter may have been trans.After Audrey Hale allegedly killed three children and three adults in a Monday shooting at the Covenant School, a private Presbyterian elementary school in Nashville, local police said they thought that Hale was transgender.

WASHINGTON  TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.The $1.7 trillion package includes requirements for the Biden administration to prohibit most uses of TikTok or any other app created by its owner, ByteDance Ltd.

President Joe Biden cracked a joke about Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and the right is outraged.Since Nashville chief of police John Drake revealed that investigators believe the Nashville school shooter was transgender, many on the right have been trying to paint the shooting as proof that LGBTQ+ people, and particularly transgender people, have declared an existential war against Christians.

Just weeks after a Daily Wire host called for " eliminating transgenderism," Fox News host Tucker Carlson described in apocalyptic terms that transgender people are the "natural enemy" of Christianity on his show last night in a rant about the Nashville school shooter, who is possibly transgender.

A powerful Senate panel is holding a hearing Thursday on the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle call for answers and action in the wake of the disaster.The hearing is taking place after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train on February 3 that released toxic chemicals into the air, water and soil of East Palestine.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who sponsored the measure along with Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.), was still confident Tuesday that the measure would pass."We feel like we're gonna have well north of 60 votes," he said in a brief interview.On its face, the math looks good for the legislation, with 12 Republicans backing the bill - enough to hit the necessary 60 votes, provided Democrats hang together.

House Republicans have introduced a bill aimed at increasing so-called parental rights in the classroom, continuing to emphasize an issue that has emerged as a central party platform.Among other things, H.R. 5, also known as the Parents Bill of Rights Act, would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require schools to provide parents with a list of books and reading materials available in the school library as well as posting curriculum publicly.

US senators said Wednesday that bipartisan support is growing for revising a federal immunity law for tech platforms and websites known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a warning aimed squarely at large social media platforms.Here's a message to Big Tech: Reform is coming, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired a technology subcommittee hearing to consider changes to the law.

A second set of classified documents has been found at an office used by President Biden after he left the vice presidency, according to multiple reports published Wednesday.Neither the location of the office nor the contents of the documents were reported.The White House did not immediately comment.

Say goodbye to dance videos on government phones.The popular app TikTok will be banned on federal government devices once a shutdown-averting $1.7 trillion spending bill is signed into law by President Biden.Though the bipartisan legislation was largely focused on funding the government, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.)

Mario Tama/Getty Images The Senate passed on Wednesday a bill to ban TikTok on U.S. government devices.The No TikTok on Government Devices Act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), passed by unanimous consent, meaning no senator objected to it being passed without a roll-call vote.Tonight the Senate unanimously passed my bill to BAN TikTok on all government devices, tweeted Hawley.