At least nine Americans are dead and more are missing after the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel over the weekend, the State Department said Monday, as the death toll rises in the region's bloodiest fighting in decades.

Sen. Josh Hawley criticized President Biden for hosting a barbecue Sunday evening at the White House during an American hostage crisis in Gaza.

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer told Chinese President Xi Jinping in a rare meeting Monday that he was "very disappointed" by China's failure to strongly condemn the recent Hamas attack on Israel and show sympathy for the country and its people.

Israel’s defense minister on Monday ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip as retaliatory action ramps up against the Palestinian militants who launched a deadly surprise attack over the weekend. The militant group Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel on Saturday, leading Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to formally declare war on Sunday. Israeli...

The GOP has it right: Abolishment of the Department of Education can’t come soon enough.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Monday that he is “very disappointed” that Beijing has not condemned the Hamas attack on Israel in more definitive terms. “The ongoing events in Israel over the past few days are horrific,” Schumer said at a meeting with Xi. “I urge you and...

Helping Ukraine is still the right thing to do. But helping Ukraine “as long as it takes,” as Biden and his team are prone to say, is fundamentally unsatisfying.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) late Sunday described the Hamas attack on Israel as “heart wrenching” and “unprecedented.” “The viciousness and brutality of this unprecedented attack from Hamas targeting innocent civilians — children, families, seniors — is overwhelming and heart wrenching,” Schumer, who is in Beijing for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, wrote in...

About a dozen beneficiaries of Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) leadership PAC have either given back or plan to donate thousands of dollars they received from him in recent election cycles. They include his allies in the Senate as well as rising stars in New Jersey politics. Menendez, along with his wife, Nadine, and three businessmen,...

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