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 […]
Two Israeli airstrikes in the West Bank killed nine Palestinian militants on Saturday as tensions remain high in the region. The Israeli military claimed responsibility for the attack and said its force struck a vehicle in the rural, northwest area of the city of Tulkarem early Saturday. Five people in the car died. Israel’s military...
The Maui wildfire victims have reached a $4 billion settlement agreement, court filings show. Liaison attorneys filed a motion saying the settlement looks to resolve all of the claims from last year’s devastating Maui fire. It asks the judge to order that insurers can’t separately go after defendants who receive money, The Associated Press reported....
Former President Trump announced he has agreed to a Sept. 4 debate against Vice President Harris in lieu of the ABC debate originally scheduled against President Biden before he dropped out of the presidential race. "I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th," Trump posted Friday night on Truth Social....
Former President Trump’s media company announced Friday that it had begun the rollout of its streaming platform, Truth+. “After rigorous stress testing, the initial streaming service is expected to become available to all Truth Social users on the Web, followed shortly by a rollout on Android and iOS,” the company said in an announcement. The...
Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz, who’s emerged as a top contender for Vice President Harris’s running mate, helped turn Minnesota into a refuge for LGBTQ Americans, signing laws that shield access to gender-affirming health care and abortion, ban conversion therapy and make it illegal for libraries to ban books solely because they have LGBTQ themes...
The seismic shift in the presidential race has rattled former President Trump’s once-disciplined campaign and put the GOP nominee on the defensive for the first time in months. Trump coasted through the Republican primary, managed to turn even negative headlines about his legal troubles into campaign and fundraising fodder and had consistently led President Biden...
The Democratic National Committee on Saturday launched a campaign in Atlanta against former President Donald Trump just hours before the GOP candidate is set to arrive in the city. On the mobile billboard of the arena Trump is scheduled to speak at, the DNC played a video of Trump’s previous controversial comments, some of which...
Former President Trump is facing fierce blowback from his line of attack questioning Vice President Harris’s Black identity, risking his efforts to court more Black voters in November. The former president drew shock and outrage from members of the Black community after claiming Harris, who is biracial, had “turned Black” after identifying only as Indian...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) position on the Israel-Hamas war is coming under particularly high levels of scrutiny amid the Democratic divide over the war as Vice President Harris considers adding him to her ticket. Shapiro has emerged as the leading vice presidential contender given his executive experience in the critical swing state, which carries...
Americans are showing more doubt in the U.S. Secret Service's (USSS) ability to protect political candidates following last month's failed assassination attempt on former President Trump, when he was grazed in the ear with a bullet, according to a recent survey. The poll, released Friday by The Associated Press/ NORC Research Center, found that just...
Vice President Harris’s campaign hit Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), who former President Trump picked to be his running mate last month, with a fiery Happy Birthday message online. “At 78 and 40, Donald Trump and his sidekick, the most unpopular VP pick in American history, are running on an agenda to drag our country backwards,...
