As criticism begins to mount over whether Israeli intelligence was unprepared for the recent attacks by Palestinian militants, U.S. officials refused Sunday to label it as an intelligence failure. Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented, multipronged attack on Israel on Saturday, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare war on the group. Numerous critics and...
Progress in critical and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, and quantum information science and technology (QIST) are essential to the U.S. innovation ecosystem. Quantum computing, in particular, symbolizes a key challenge and opportunity. Constructing an operational quantum computer ranks as one of the biggest tasks for science and technology and represents the next...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and his staff departed Israel on Sunday, after Hamas’s attacks on Israel forced the senator to shelter in place in Jerusalem on Saturday. A spokesperson for Booker’s office confirmed in a statement that the New Jersey Democrat departed early from a trip to Israel, where he arrived Friday and had planned...
Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog on Sunday said that the time to investigate Israel’s potential security failures in the wake of a "surprise attack" by Hamas in southern Israel and elsewhere Saturday would occur at a later time. “It was a surprise attack,” Herzog said in an interview on CBS News’s “Face...
A string of special election and ballot measure victories is giving Democrats hope heading into 2024 as the party grapples with concerns over President Biden’s low approval ratings. The party has clinched significant wins in races across the country over the past year, including with an abortion-related measure in Ohio and a New Hampshire state House race in...
Former Vice President Mike Pence (R), a 2024 presidential candidate, on Sunday criticized President Biden for his strategic positioning on Iran and suggested the administration’s policies have “set the conditions” for the Hamas attacks in Israel on Saturday. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pence pointed to the recent U.S.-Iran hostage exchange,...
Illinois and New York’s good cop-bad cop routine presents the Biden administration with a choice: Work with fellow Democrats at the state and local level to find creative solutions to welcome asylum seekers or continue to let states take things into their own hands.
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said she believes the $6 billion in frozen funds returned to Iran had a role in the Hamas attack in Israel.