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Will Hezbollah ignite Israel’s northern front?

Hamas’s operation was a failure of imagination and interpretation of information that was available to the Israelis.

The Hill’s Morning Report — Will President Biden go to Israel?

Editor’s note: The Hill’s Morning Report is our daily newsletter that dives deep into Washington’s agenda. To subscribe, click here or fill out the box below. The immensity of the ongoing tragedy in Israel and Gaza is told with rising statistics and explained in emotionally vivid descriptions not often woven into remarks by seasoned Western diplomats. “No country can accept...

What makes presidential campaigns successful?

The most critical factor in American presidential campaigns since the 1970s is not candidate qualifications, name recognition, financial backing, or the burning issues of the day.

House GOP barrels toward uncertain Speaker floor vote

House Republicans are barreling toward a floor vote on their Speaker nominee — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) — this week even as the Judiciary Committee chairman remains far from the 217 votes needed to win the gavel on the House floor. Jordan clinched the nomination for Speaker in a 124-81 vote on Friday, beating his last-minute...

Senators flummoxed, ‘horrified’ by House leadership vacuum  

Senators return to Washington this week feeling completely flummoxed by the turmoil in the House and with no clear idea of whether House Republicans will elect a Speaker anytime soon. Republican senators have called on their House colleagues to unify behind a Speaker as quickly as possible, but that plea has fallen flat. Instead, House...

Biden: US ‘workin’ like hell’ to free Gaza hostages

President Biden says the U.S. is “workin’ like hell" to free American hostages in Gaza and doing “everything in our power to get them home."

White House names ex-ambassador to Lebanon, Turkey as US special envoy to Middle East ‘humanitarian issues’

David Satterfield, former U.S. ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey, was named the U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues and will travel to Israel.

DeSantis says nearly 300 Floridians returned to Sunshine State after being stranded in Israel

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said more than 270 people who were stranded in Israel during the country's war against Hamas terrorists arrived in the Sunshine State on Sunday.

FLASHBACK: Nikki Haley warned United Nations of Hamas threat to Israel, sought to label terror group

Nikki Haley, when serving as U.N. ambassador, pushed the international body to take tougher action on Hamas -- years before the group would launch a terror attack on Israel.

Senate to hit the ground running this week on funding packages, negotiations on aid to Israel

The Senate will reconvene this week after a recess, with funding the government and providing aid to war-torn nations the top priorities for the upper chamber.

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