Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s eighth trip to the Middle East since the terrorist atrocities of October 7, 2023, has gone about as well as the previous seven. That is to say: Not well at all. Blinken went to the region to pressure Israel and Hamas into accepting President Biden’s latest ceasefire proposal for the
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) denounced the rise of anti-Semitism in the progressive movement at an event with liberal Jewish leaders on Monday. Weeks earlier, the “Squad” member requested $1.5 million in taxpayer funds for a New York City law group accused of hostility towards Jews and Israel. Ocasio-Cortez requested an earmark on May 17
President Joe Biden wandered away from a group of foreign leaders at the G7 summit in Italy on Thursday, only to be corralled back to the group by Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni. Video of the incident shows foreign leaders visibly confused as Biden turns and walks away from them during a demonstration of Italian
Maine Superior Court judge Julia Lipez suspended sentence of man convicted at trial of sexually abusing two girls Judge Julia Lipez and convict Michael T. Smith (@libsoftiktok/X) One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had “a lot of good in him” during a court hearing
Russia on Thursday indicted American reporter Evan Gershkovich on charges of espionage after more than a year of imprisonment in Moscow. Gershkovich was detained in March last year while on assignment in Yekaterinburg for the Wall Street Journal. Russian prosecutors on Thursday alleged without evidence that Gershkovich was gathering intelligence for the CIA about a
A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to “reduce the CO2 footprint” at Defense Department outposts. BioMADE, a public-private company that has received more than $500 million in funding from the Defense Department, announced earlier this month that it is seeking proposals to develop “innovations in food production that
Dave Min, a California Democratic state senator vying to succeed Rep. Katie Porter (D.) this fall, has joined his party’s effort to kill a popular statewide voter initiative that would crack down on retail theft and open-air drug markets—an effort that has local law enforcement officials crying foul. Min authored one of 14 criminal justice