The money will cover pensions, compensation, and benefits. Another deficit is expected next fiscal year. The House passed a bill on Sept. 17 to give additional funding to the Department of Veterans Affairs as the agency faces a budget shortfall. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) and would give the VA
Israel’s astonishing attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday culminated in the explosion of thousands of Hezbollah terrorists’ pagers. It left at least nine dead and 2,800 injured, according to the latest reports. But it left many wondering why it wasn’t followed by a larger offensive incursion into Lebanon, from which Hezbollah has for the
Senator Gary Peters, who has been vocal about combating Islamophobia, declines to put name on statement condemning attack Pro-Palestinian protest during University of Michigan’s 2024 commencement ceremony (Nic Antaya/Getty Images) Days after a group of young men attacked a University of Michigan student after overhearing him say he was Jewish, most of the state’s top
Group behind affirmative action ban says decline in Asian students is evidence of discrimination The view across Hewitt Quadrangle of Commons, Yale University / Facebook The group behind the lawsuit that brought down affirmative action in college admissions is demanding answers from universities that saw almost no change in the racial breakdown of their classes
A United Nations official who blamed Israel for Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack called the Jewish state a genocidal “military dictatorship” during a Brown University panel on Monday evening. At the event—”Anatomy of a Genocide: A Failure of the International System?”—hosted by Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for the West
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat down with the National Association of Black Journalists for a Tuesday panel discussion, during which she struggled to convey her position on the Israel-Hamas war and repeatedly sparred with the friendly moderators. During one exchange, moderator Tanya Mosley of Philadelphia radio station WHYY asked Harris where she draws “the
The Senate on Sept. 17 failed to advance for the second time a bill that would create the federal right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The Senate on Sept. 17 failed to advance for the second time a bill that would create the federal right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The upper congressional chamber failed