Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said the Baltimore bridge recovery operation is “remarkably complex” as crews work to remove the cargo ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge last week as well as the debris. Moore joined NewsNation’s 'Cuomo' late Thursday, telling host Chris Cuomo the ship is “literally the size of the Eiffel...
The U.S. economy added 303,000 jobs in March, and the unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.8 percent, according to new Labor Department data released Friday. The March jobs report once again beat expectations. Economists had expected that the economy would gain 200,000 jobs and that the jobless rate would dip to 3.8 percent. The latest...
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that Israel’s efforts to increase aid to civilians in Gaza is encouraged but may not be enough to meet expectations. Blinken said that opening more border crossings has the potential to help the civilians stuck in Gaza, but the U.S. also wants to see the Israel Defense Forces...
Ukraine, having invited in missionaries since independence, is the "Bible Belt" of Eastern Europe. Russian authorities view and treat evangelicals very differently both in Ukraine and inside Russia.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Friday dismissed two officers after finding that a fatal strike this week killing seven workers with the charity group World Central Kitchen (WCK) should not have occurred. A preliminary investigation carried out by the Israeli Joint Chiefs of Staff found that the IDF mistakenly thought a convoy carrying the...
“The temptation of our day is to accept the intolerable, for fear of still worse to come,” wrote German politician Hermann Rauschning in his prescient 1939 book, "The Revolution of Nihilism." Today, this formulation is useful in understanding the reaction by Russia’s elites to President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, as well as the West’s response to...
President Biden’s escalating messages of frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over events in Gaza are pointed and apparently partially persuasive. There has been no change in U.S. policy or arms sales. There are warnings without specifics. There is no set timetable. But Thursday presented the first signal that Biden would reassess backing Israel’s...
The House Freedom Caucus is staking out an official position amid talks about what role Congress has to play in reconstruction of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.