The invitation was extended a few months after Mr. Schumer decried Mr. Netanyahu’s handling of the Israel–Hamas war and called for new elections in Israel. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) explained his support behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s addressing a joint session of Congress on July 24. “I have clear and profound disagreements
The US ambassador to China described ‘a battle of ideas’ between democracy and authoritarianism. NEW YORK—The United States is looking to strengthen alliances with China’s neighbors in response to an increasingly aggressive and repressive regime, according to Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China. At a moderated discussion at Manhattan’s Asia Society, the U.S. diplomat
The US ambassador to China described ‘a battle of ideas’ between democracy and authoritarianism. NEW YORK CITY—The United States is looking to strengthen alliances with China’s neighbors in response to an increasingly aggressive and repressive regime, according to Nicholas Burns, the U.S. ambassador to China. At a moderated discussion at Manhattan’s Asia Society, the U.S.
The Westhill High School Warriors varsity sports teams boast an impressive display of regional and state championship banners in Syracuse, New York. But by this time next year, those teams will be rebranded under a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) mandate by the New York State Department of Education. The mandate prohibits districts—under the threat
State lawmakers will consider implementing the election method during the 2025 legislative session. Connecticut’s Democrat Gov. Ned Lamont tasked a working group with developing a legislative proposal to allow ranked-choice voting in caucuses, conventions, primaries, and certain municipal elections. Connecticut law does not currently permit ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates by order
The first lady has only been absent for one day of the trial when she attended the D-Day 80th anniversary ceremony in France on June 6. WILMINGTON, Del.—First Lady Jill Biden arrived at the Delaware courthouse on June 7 for the fifth day in the federal gun trial of her stepson, Hunter Biden, after attending
Five Republican lawmakers are calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to immediately blacklist two leading Chinese battery companies, on the basis that their supply chains are “deeply compromised” by the communist regime’s state-sponsored slave labor and Uyghur genocide. Led by Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist