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.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign announced it has fired a third-party vendor responsible for an email championing Jan. 6 "activists."
After Kansas GOP leaders and Gov. Laure Kelly struck a deal on tax cuts, state lawmakers voted it down. Republicans said the cuts were too few and Democrats said it favored the wealthy.