Hamas may be a terrorist group, but for decades, Israel and the wider world have treated it as a fact of life. John Kerry visited the group as a senator, prior to becoming secretary of state. So, too, did many European officials. The Turkish parliament gave Hamas leader Khaled Meshal a rousing ovation during his 2006 visit to Ankara. Today, Qatar competes with Turkey to shower funds and support on the group whose charter calls for the extermination of Jews.
The Wall Street Journal is moving a top Washington editor away from his job leading the DC bureau to focus on securing the release of detained reporter Evan Gershkovich. Paul Beckett, who has led the Journal's coverage from Washington since the Trump administration, will transition into the new role in the coming weeks, editor Emma...
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Wednesday the U.S. government is "not quite sure" how both itself and Israel "missed" foreseeing Palestinian militant group Hamas's surprise attack against the Jewish state over the weekend. "We've heard from the administration, there seems to be a failure of intelligence as well, we're not quite...
Personal autonomy is a right so basic it is often taken for granted. Yet state courts routinely appoint guardians for individuals deemed incapable of making their own personal decisions, stripping them of their personal autonomy. Recently, however, thanks to Brittney Spears, Michael Oher, and other high-profile exposés, the power of court-appointed guardianships to restrict rights...
A new survey asking Americans how they want Congress to address racial equity has shown some variation on the top priorities among different racial groups. The survey, conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and NORC at the University of Chicago, presented Americans with several race-conscious issues and asked respondents to identify...
Story at a glance Like the rest of the U.S., more Asian Americans are distancing themselves from religion. A new Pew Research Center survey found that 32 percent of Asian Americans are now religiously unaffiliated. In 2012, 26 percent of Asian Americans said they were religiously unaffiliated, according to the survey. Chinese...
Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) is in Israel to aid Americans in escaping the country, which has been ravaged by fighting over the last few days. Former Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) posted a photo of the Florida Republican in Israel on social media, saying that he is helping evacuate U.S. citizens in the wake of Hamas's...
The Supreme Court will not take up a lawsuit led by the state of Missouri that sought to block the Biden administration’s “social cost of carbon” measure. The court denied a writ of certiorari Tuesday in the case, Missouri v. Biden, without further explanation. In the case, 11 Republican-led states, guided by Missouri Attorney General Andrew...
Bills introduced in the New York Legislature aim to restrict social media apps' collection of data from minors, as well as allow parents to opt them out of algorithmic exposure.