White House advisers expressed doubt that a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas will happen anytime soon, despite President Joe Biden insisting last week that negotiators were “very close” to a final proposal, Axios reported Sunday. “It’s a rough period. People at the White House are sad, upset, and frustrated,” a U.S. official told Axios.
Former exec warns of ‘institutional crisis’ at British broadcaster Anti-Israel protests at the BBC (Carl Court/Getty Images) The BBC systematically “downplayed Hamas terrorism” and portrayed Israel as a pariah state in its coverage of the ongoing Hamas war, breaching its journalistic guidelines 1,553 times, according to an independent review of the network’s reporting. “Israel was
As governor of Minnesota, Walz oversaw some of the most aggressive corporate tax hikes in the country Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) Corporate tax hike advocate Tim Walz had his China travel company shut down by the Nebraska government for failing to pay a minor business operating tax in 1998, according to corporate
Slotkin prioritized ads for users interested in ‘Islamic studies’ Rep. Elissa Slotkin speaks at the 2024 DNC (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D., Mich.) will need all the help she can get to clinch victory in her competitive race for Michigan’s open Senate seat in November. But there’s one portion of the electorate she
The Biden-Harris administration abandoned $57.6 million in American funds, a “significant amount of classified information,” and advanced biometric data that enabled the Taliban to hunt down nearly 500 former Afghan officials during its bungled 2021 withdrawal, according to the findings of a three-year long congressional investigation. The report, published Monday by the House Foreign Affairs
Sean McMeekin’s new book about the trajectory of the most consequential political movement of the 20th century, To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, is an ambitious effort to chronicle an ideology birthed in the early 1900s by a heretofore obscure exile that managed to seize power in Russia, inspire
Prolific author, historian, and former senior government official Tevi Troy is out with a new book about politics. This one takes a close look at 18 iconic CEOs—men like Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Bill Gates, Lee Iacocca, and Elon Musk—and their interactions with multiple presidents. Troy (a friend) is the author of