Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this weekend blamed his intelligence officials for not warning him ahead of the deadly attack by Hamas on Oct. 7 — but just 10 hours later, he retracted those remarks and issued an apology. “I was wrong,” Netanyahu wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday. “Things...

The United States is "prepared" to support a humanitarian pause in the fighting between Israel and the militant group Hamas in an effort to free the hostages being held in Gaza, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday. ABC's Martha Raddatz asked Sullivan on "This Week" how Israel can both eliminate Hamas and secure the...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a 2024 GOP presidential candidate, criticized former President Trump for wanting to split up aid to Israel and Ukraine, saying Trump wants to “coddle” Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This is Donald Trump's bad worldview,” Christie said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “He wants to do...

Socialist Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) pulled a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 30 before a House vote on government funding. After reports of what happened made the national news cycle, Bowman didn’t deny pulling the alarm but said it was done as a mistake because he was running late. He claimed he mistakenly pulled the alarm because he thought it would open the door.

Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said Sunday that he would like to see Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) make a bid for the White House. NBC's Kristen Welker asked the former California governor on "Meet the Press" if there was any candidate in the 2024 presidential field that he feels could "bring the...

Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile panned Dean Phillips’s 2024 challenge to President Biden and underscored her confidence that Democrats would rally behind Biden's reelection campaign. Brazile said she wasn’t sure what Phillips’s “game plan” was, noting the uphill challenge that Phillips would have in order to launch any real challenge to unseat the...

Retired U.S. Gen. Robert Abrams said Israel's mission to destroy militant group Hamas while also protecting the lives of Palestinians in Gaza is "nearly impossible," calling it a "very difficult task." "I think it's going to be what I would consider nearly impossible, to destroy Hamas, to eliminate their capability to do harm to Israel...