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 Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty ImagesKHARKIV, Ukraine—After months of infighting on Capitol Hill, President Joe Biden has finally been able to sign off on a huge new $61 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Delays to the bill, which got bogged down in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, were widely blamed for impacting Kyiv's ability to defend itself from Russian advances.
After its passage last week, some members of the House waved Ukrainian flags while others cheered in celebration that Ukraine will soon receive new weapons ahead of Russia's expected counteroffensive. Signing it into law at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, Biden promised the arms shipments would begin immediately and hailed what he called "a good day for world peace."
The reaction here, near the front lines of the war, felt very different.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Yuki Iwamura/GettyDonald Trump on Wednesday described a deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville as a "peanut" compared with the current wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations unfolding on college campuses across America.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican noted that his successor, Joe Biden, had cited the Unite the Right rally in Virginia as among his motives for running for president. One woman was killed and almost 40 other people were hurt when a neo-Nazi rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the rally—an event that Trump claimed at the time had been attended by "very fine people on both sides."
"Crooked Joe Biden would say, constantly, that he ran because of Charlottesville," Trump wrote in his post Wednesday. "Well, if that's the case, he's done a really terrible job because Charlottesville is like a ‘peanut' compared to the riots and anti-Israel protests that are happening all over our Country, RIGHT NOW."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 JP Yim/GettyThe Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is calling for MSNBC to ban Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt from its airwaves over recent comments he made about college students protesting against the war in Gaza.
During an appearance last Friday on Morning Joe, Greenblatt railed against the pro-Palestinian protests raging at Columbia University and other college campuses, describing them as antisemitic and threatening to Jewish students. He also took a shot at the two main organizations behind the demonstrations—the Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace.
"Iran has their military proxies like Hezbollah, and Iran has their campus proxies like these groups like SJP and JVP," he declared.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 Mike StobeFormer president Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that his ongoing hush money trial constitutes "election interference," by preventing him from connecting with voters, and so, the Republican presidential nominee spent his one day off from court diligently campaigning.
Just kidding, Trump actually went golfing.
A not-so aggrieved Trump spent his Wednesday puttering around at the Bedminster Golf Club, sources told CNN. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden's presidential campaign released a succinct statement about Trump's campaign events that day: "He had none."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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 AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that is likely to result in a nationwide ban of TikTok.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the bill, which will require the company to part with its parent company, ByteDance, within a year or risk becoming illegal in the U.S.
The president's signing of the bill is a veritable death sentence for the app, as ByteDance has made no indication it intends to part with its social network baby. Now, the company has 270 days, or roughly nine months, to change its position, a deadline which Biden can extend by 90 days if he so chooses.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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