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Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is facing increasingly vocal opposition from a small group inside his own party on what they suggest is his bias toward Israel and against Palestinians following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel. Biden has offered full-throated support for Israel, an ally, as its […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (MIAMI) — The judge overseeing the probe into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents is set to hear arguments Wednesday as she considers a request from Trump to extend deadlines in the case. At issue is how the classified materials at the center of the probe are to be handled […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday gave the most specific number to date on how many Americans are trapped in Gaza following Hamas’ surprise terrorist attack on Israel. “We’re working on this every single day. We have about 400 American citizens and their family members, so it’s roughly 1,000 people […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New House Speaker Mike Johnson, as one of his first moves, is forcing a showdown over emergency aid to Israel. He’s pushing a vote Thursday on a bill that would provide more than $14 billion to the American ally — but not include $61 billion in aid to Ukraine as President […]
Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with where to draw the line when it comes to the personal social media accounts of government workers and steps to censor comments or block access for certain individual users. In a pair of cases, citizens who were restricted online by local […]
ABC News (PORT HURON, Mich.) — Kevin Lindke has taken a wrecking ball to old buildings as part of a family business and in his free time uses his small-town influencer status on social media to challenge people in power. “You need anger sometimes,” Lindke said in an interview. The 43-year-old father-turned-provocateur, who is also […]
Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has released the first draft of a debt relief policy targeted at the hardest-hit student loan borrowers, providing more clarity on what the next steps are in a monthslong rulemaking process to make good on President Joe Biden’s efforts to provide debt relief. The […]
Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received a commitment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to try to increase the flow of aid into Gaza, the White House said Monday. Biden spoke with Netanyahu on Sunday as Israeli forces expanded their ground operations in Gaza, in what it called […]
Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI said it’s investigating a potential antisemitic hate crime at Cornell University, as President Joe Biden told ABC News he is “very concerned” about the rise in antisemitism. Over the weekend, numerous threats to the Jewish community at Cornell were posted on a website “unaffiliated” with the […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (DENVER) — Hearings began this week on whether the 14th Amendment disqualifies Donald Trump from running for president in 2024 because of his actions around the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Monday morning in Denver, a historic five-day evidentiary hearing got underway for a lawsuit filed against Trump by […]
