Senator Ed Markey is fighting to stop a potential TikTok ban in the United States.

On Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat introduced the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act, aiming to prevent the platform’s shutdown, which could disrupt the lives of 170 million American users.

Markey warns that the “stakes are high,” as a sudden ban would upend a "one-of-a-kind informational and cultural ecosystem.” He has proposed extending the deadline by 270 days.

On Thursday night, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) participated in a “Politics and Pints” conversation at a community college in the Philadelphia suburbs. Paul was the guest of Dom Giordano, a radio talk show host on Philadelphia’s WPHT 1210 am. Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd at Zlock Performing Arts Center at Bucks County Community College in Newtown, Pa., Kentucky’s junior senator took questions from Giordano as the two sat in two chairs on a stage. They touched on many political topics, including the COVID pandemic, masks, vaccines, congressional hearings with Dr....

Senator Rand Paul questions the diagnosis put forward about Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s episodes ‘freezes’ that have happened recently. He isn’t buying the Capitol Hill physician’s report that lays the blame on dehydration. Rand Paul is an ophthalmologist who has practiced medicine for more than 25 years. Dr. Brian Monahan said that there is no evidence that McConnell had a stroke or seizure. Paul said it looks like a “focal neurological event.” Rand Paul went on to say it doesn’t mean that McConnell can’t serve. Paul is the junior senator...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared to disagree with the Capitol Hill physician's diagnosis of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) sudden freezes this summer. Paul, who spent more than 25 years as an ophthalmologist, said McConnell's episodes appeared more like a "focal neurological event," such as a seizure or a stroke. However, Dr. Brian Monahan, the Capitol's attending physician, said there was no evidence the 81-year-old senator had a stroke or seizure. “I’ve practiced medicine for 25 years, and it doesn’t look like dehydration to me,” Paul told a group...

PROBABLY NEWS TO TRUMP’S LAWYERS — On HUGH HEWITT’s show today, DONALD TRUMP said he will testify at his trial: “Oh, yes, absolutely.” (h/t Philip Wegmann) HAPPENING NOW — The first televised hearing of Trump’s election interference case in Georgia is underway. Fulton County Superior Court Judge SCOTT McAFEE will hear requests filed by former Trump lawyers SIDNEY POWELL and KENNETH CHESEBRO to sever their cases from the other 17 defendants. The hearing comes a day after Chesebro’s attorney requested McAfee to drop him from the RICO indictment and a...

Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is not buying what the Capitol doctor is selling when it comes to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) following two instances of seizing up, calling them “neurological events.” According to the Capitol physician, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with McConnell. He was simply dehydrated. A claim that no one is buying. “My examination of you following your August 30, 2023 brief episode included several medical evaluations: brain MRI imaging, EEG study and consultations with several neurologists for a comprehensive neurology assessment,” Dr. Brian P.