The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will implement visa bans on Israelis viewed as “extremist settlers” in the West Bank. The policy move follows President Biden's warning last month that sanctions could be imposed on individuals the U.S. views as involved in violence against Palestinians, particularly in the larger territory. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller...
The fourth Republican primary debate will take place Wednesday night as the last chance for the GOP candidates to speak to a national audience before the end of the year. The two-hour debate in Tuscaloosa, Ala., will air at 8 p.m. EST on NewsNation, a cable channel owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also owns...
An Alabama man featured on the popular podcast "S-Town" was shot and killed after a standoff with police in Alabama over the weekend, according to local authorities. Joseph Tyler Goodson, 32, of Woodstock, barricaded himself inside of a house early Sunday, prompting a standoff with officers from the Woodstock Police Department, the Alabama Law Enforcement...
The Biden administration pledged $1 billion for a new rail connection between Richmond, Va., and Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, as part of public transit grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. “Great news!” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) celebrated. “This project is a big win for economic development in the region and I want to thank Secretary...
CVS Pharmacy is revamping how it prices prescription drugs, doing away with a complex and opaque formula system to a much simpler model that could have major implications for how pharmacies get reimbursed. In an announcement Tuesday, the company said its more than 9,000 pharmacies will be reimbursed by contracted pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and...
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has now spent 250 days in a Russian prison, marking a somber milestone for the journalist who the U.S. says is being wrongfully detained amid high tensions with Russia during the war in Ukraine. Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the Journal, said in a joint statement with Almar Latour,...
FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of an increased threat of terrorism stemming from the Israel-Hamas war, saying at a hearing Tuesday that the FBI was working around the clock to prevent potential attacks inspired by Hamas. “Given the steady drumbeat of calls for attacks by foreign terrorist organizations since Oct. 7, we're working around the clock...
Several prominent Jewish Democrats will withhold their support for a Republican-sponsored resolution condemning antisemitism, accusing GOP leaders of using the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 — and the spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes that followed — to divide Democrats for political ends. Instead, Reps. Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Jamie Raskin (Md.) and Dan Goldman (N.Y.) said they will...
Republicans on the House Small Business Committee demanded answers from the Biden Department of Commerce on the 90-day pause on issuing gun export licenses.