Voter support for U.S. military aid to Israel has dropped, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University. Forty-five percent of registered voters said they supported the U.S. sending additional “military aid to Israel for their efforts in the war” with Palestinian militant group Hamas in the poll released Wednesday. This is a drop from...

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said Wednesday that the House Education Committee will expand its investigation into Harvard President Claudine Gay to include allegations that she committed plagiarism in academic work. The Education Committee previously held a hearing on campus antisemitism featuring Gay and the leaders of the University of Pennsylvania and MIT. At that hearing,...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) said her staff encouraged her to listen to Taylor Swift’s music in the wake of the pop star's visits to Kansas City Chiefs games to cheer on boyfriend and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce. “Now that @taylorswift13 has been spending more time in Kansas — thanks @tkelce! — my fearless...

France is prepared to move the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics if needed over security concerns, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and tensions elsewhere in the Middle East have raised concerns about security for the Olympics. The opening ceremony is planned to take place on the River...

The reelection campaign for President Biden said comparisons between former President Trump and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler are “not a coincidence” in a Wednesday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “This is not a coincidence,” read the campaign’s post, which also featured a graphic in which the campaign says the former president...

The Long Beach City Council has formally approved a proclamation calling on the federal government to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.