House Democrats’ campaign arm unveiled a slate of candidates it is backing to challenge potentially vulnerable incumbent House Republicans this year as the party tries to take back control of the lower chamber. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced the 17 “top-tier” candidates in a release on Monday as part of its “Red to...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is calling on the United States to restore the funding to the United Nations agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, which is facing allegations that 12 of its workers were involved in Hamas’s attack on Israel. “Cutting off support to @UNRWA - the primary source of humanitarian aid to 2 million+ Gazans...
The issues are intricate, requiring novel determinations of both fact and law, with an implicit threat of disorder hanging over any outcome adverse to Trump.
Complaints of anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bias jumped dramatically in the United States after the Israel-Hamas war broke out in Gaza in October, according to new data from a leading Muslim advocacy group. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reports that during the final three months of 2023 the organization fielded 3,578 such complaints, a 178...
Nearly a year after a freight train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, a research report published this month estimates that more than 3 million Americans are at risk from potential derailments involving the same substances. The report, issued by the environmental health advocacy group Toxic-Free Future, estimates that at any given moment, American...
Forcing social media companies to put more skin in the game could quickly lead to dramatic improvements in online safety and a reduction in hateful, divisive, and dubious content.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday returned to the Pentagon after working from home since being released from a weeks-long hospitalization earlier this month. Austin had been “conducting his duties from home since his release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Jan. 15,” according to a brief Defense Department statement announcing the transition....
Former national security adviser John Bolton called for “disproportionate” strikes inside Iran after a drone attack killed three U.S. service members in Jordan over the weekend. Bolton said Sunday night on NewsNation that the U.S. needs to carry out retaliatory attacks in the wake of the deadly drone strike. He said the U.S. needs to...
A U.S. defense official denied an unsubstantiated claim from Yemen’s Houthi rebels early Monday that the group attacked a mobile U.S. Navy landing base in the Gulf of Aden. Speaking on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press, a U.S. defense official said there was no reported attack on the USS Lewis B. Puller, as...
The Illinois State Board of Elections is expected to vote Tuesday on whether former President Trump should be removed from the state’s primary ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment. The forthcoming decision comes after retired Republican judge Clark Erickson, who oversaw a hearing on Friday, recommended on Sunday that the state’s election...