Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin (D-Md.) on Wednesday said the news of an alleged plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City is "disturbing" and underscores a global rise in transnational repression. “We are witnessing an alarming rise in transnational repression globally, where governments are dispatching assassins and kidnappers or using...
Tech billionaire Elon Musk insisted Wednesday that his trip to Israel was not an “apology tour” amid the backlash he received for endorsing an antisemitic social media post, for which he expressed regret. “Well, the trip to Israel is independent of — it wasn't something like [an] apology tour,” Musk told The New York Times’s...
The Department of Education (DOE) has launched an investigation into Harvard University over claims of antisemitism on its campus. The department launched its inquiry into the Massachusetts-based Ivy League institution on Tuesday, according to a listing on the federal agency’s website. DOE’s inquiry into Harvard stems from a complaint that alleged the school discriminated against...
The American families of hostages who were kidnapped by Hamas are issuing urgent warnings that time is running out to get their loved ones back from captivity, amid the expiration of a tenuous truce between Israel and Hamas that has seen more than 80 people released. The parents of three young men, dual citizens serving...
Beginning on Thursday, world leaders, climate negotiators, activists, corporations and lobbyists will gather in Dubai for the COP28 global climate summit. The annual United Nations conference serves both as a forum for nations to highlight progress and make announcements in the fight against climate change and as the stage for formal negotiations for global agreements on key climate issues. This year,...
Republican Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Wednesday led a group of 11 Republicans in congratulating Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei, a populist libertarian who has been compared to former President Trump. "Rep. Roy was proud to lead his House Republican colleagues in congratulating President-elect Milei on his decisive victory in Argentina," Roy's press office posted to...
An FBI agent was carjacked near Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon as the number of armed carjackings has surged over the past year in the nation’s capital. The FBI confirmed to The Hill that one of its employees was carjacked on Wednesday, adding that the FBI Washington Field office and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department's (MPD) Carjacking Task...
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk told the companies pulling advertisements from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to "go f--- yourself" following the companies' decision to nix ads from the platform after Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic remark earlier this week. Asked Wednesday in an interview at The New York Times Dealbook Summit if...