When President Trump sits down with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House next week, he will be flanked by the architects of America's tech economy.
“I am a Jew.” Those four words should be an ordinary declaration of identity. At a prayer vigil outside the New York mayor’s office on Sept. 18, they became a statement of resolve. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, senior rabbi of Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in Manhattan, built his remarks around “Ivri Anochi,” עברי אנכי, drawing on the […]
Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) dismissed concerns from members of both parties who say he was the “wrong pick” for former President Trump’s running mate, calling the criticism “a badge of honor,” in an interview on Sunday. On Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo pressed Vance to respond to the criticism “on both the...
Olivia Troye, an ex-national security adviser to former Vice President Pence, called on Sunday for her former boss to endorse Vice President Harris's presidential run, calling it the "right thing" to do. Troye, who emerged as a vocal Republican critic of the Trump administration since leaving the White House in 2020, told MSNBC anchor Alex...
The pro-Palestinian activists who disrupted campuses across the nation are plotting their return for the new academic year. Demonstrators say all forms of protest are still on the table, despite the more than 2,000 arrests so far, as students try to figure out a new strategy to demand their schools divest from Israel, among other...
Belgium's mixed triathlon team withdrew from Monday's mixed-relay triathlon race after one of its triathletes fell ill after swimming in last week's race in the Seine River, the country's Olympic committee said. “The BOIC and Belgian Triathlon must unfortunately announce that the ‘Belgian Hammers’ will not be starting the mixed relay at the Paris Olympic...
Nearly 100 people were killed in antigovernment protests in Bangladesh on Sunday, according to local media reports. The Associated Press (AP) reported that one of the country’s top newspapers, Prothom Alo, reported that at least 95 people, including at least 14 police officers, died in the new wave of antigovernment protests, while Channel 24 said...
More than 30 people were killed by Israeli airstrikes on a pair of schools in Gaza on Sunday, as tensions rise in the Middle East amid fear of a wider regional war between Israel and Iran. The Israeli military struck the Hassan Salama and Nasser schools in Gaza City, where thousands of displaced Gazans were...
Democratic Senate candidate and Rep. Ruben Gallego (Ariz.) is attempting to shore up Republican and independent voters through a new coalition in the swing state. Gallego's campaign on Sunday announced the launch of "Republicans and Independents for Ruben," a coalition of 40 Republican and Independent leaders backing the Democrat for the Senate. "I am running...
Congress must pass the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act to raise the asset limit for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients and improve their financial security. We must make sure that everyone and anyone who lives with a disability can earn and save enough money to live a fulfilling, flourishing life.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Sunday that he believes his state will vote for a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in more than a decade this November. Cooper, once considered a top vice presidential option for Vice President Harris’s campaign, said in an MSNBC “The Weekend” interview that Harris is a...
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) defended his decision on Sunday to withdraw from consideration to be Vice President Harris's running mate. “Yes, I did let the Harris campaign know early in the process that this was just not the right time for me or my state,” Cooper said Sunday on MSNBC’s “The Weekend.” MSNBC hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders-Townsend noted that...
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain on Sunday pointed to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) as the union’s top two picks to serve as Vice President Harris’s potential running mate. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Fain praised both candidates as supportive of workers and...
Major global groups are finding it difficult to overtly condemn apparent fraud in Venezuela’s presidential election, with key member states instead playing defense for President Nicolás Maduro. The Organization of American States (OAS) and the European Union (EU) top the list — both organizations were barreling toward full-throated censure of Maduro until the Venezuelan regime’s...
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said that former President Trump is retreating to his "greatest hits" by attacking Vice President Harris on her race. Christie said on ABC’s “This Week” that Trump falsely questioning Harris’s racial identity at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference last week was an “impulse” move, not...
White blindness, the phenomenon of racism being invisible to white people, is a result of society's actions and assumptions, and can be overcome by being open to learning and engaging in authentic relationships with people of color.
