Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer didn't hold back Tuesday in trashing GOP senators' border security plan that they want to couple with war aid to Ukraine and Israel.
Former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of 2020 are unprecedented in U.S. history, special counsel Jack Smith says in a new court filing that opposes the ex-president's attempt to dismiss the federal conspiracy case against him.
Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said it is a “lie” to claim Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is calling for genocide in Israel. After a brief review of Tlaib’s comments, this fact check confirms that Bush’s pants are on fire.
Without King Abdullah II's monarchy, the general stability and peace of the Middle East, including the peace of Israel, would likely not exist. Without Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate, many American soldiers and civilians in the Middle East would be dead. Many civilians in Europe, including American tourists, would be dead. The GID is viewed by U.S. intelligence officers as the most reliable counterterrorism partner in the Middle East — more so even than Israel's Mossad intelligence service. The GID's infiltration of the Islamic State and al Qaeda and its cooperation with Israel have been of exceptional value.
As five Republican presidential candidates gather Wednesday night for a make-or-break debate, they should focus not on each other but on the candidate not there. They must make the case that Donald Trump was a bad president who would be even worse, an utter disaster, if he took office again.
Israel will likely have to occupy Gaza post-war, due to fears Hamas would reestablish a stronghold in the region, according to former CIA director and military expert David Petraeus. “This is about ensuring that Hamas cannot reconstitute itself,” Petraeus said. Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sat down with...
National Jewish organizations are asking for the public to join them in Washington, D.C., next week for a pro-Israel protest on the National Mall. The Jewish Federations of North America is joining forces with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to hold a protest that will allow people in the U.S. to...
The House advanced a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Tuesday, teeing up a final vote on legislation penalizing the Michigan Democrat for her criticism of Israel following Hamas’s attack on the U.S. ally last month. The chamber defeated a Democratic-led motion to kill the resolution 208-213-1. One Democrat voted to advance the...
House Republicans are at odds over how to prevent a government shutdown that would begin in a little more than a week, raising questions over whether the conference will be able to rally behind its new Speaker on an issue that has long divided it. Lawmakers emerging from a House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday...
The campaign for GOP presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis is reportedly focused on denying former President Trump a “big win” in Iowa after the Florida governor secured the endorsement of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). The Associated Press reported that DeSantis’s senior advisers outlined a path to secure DeSantis the GOP nomination in a memo sent to his...