Two seafarers were killed in a Houthi missile attack on a Red Sea merchant ship on Wednesday, British and U.S. officials said, the first fatalities reported since the Iran-aligned Yemeni group began strikes against shipping in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes. The Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack, which set the Greek-owned, Barbados-flagged
Sen. Cotton and others say admin’s efforts ‘undercut our most valuable’ ally Sen. Tom Cotton (Getty Images) The Biden administration is under congressional pressure to explain a series of executive orders targeting Israeli Jews with sanctions and undermining what a group of GOP senators says is the Jewish state’s effort to eradicate Hamas. Nine Republican
Elizabeth Bagley bemoaned ‘influence of the Jewish lobby’ Elizabeth Bagley (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images), Lula da Silva (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) The U.S. ambassador to Brazil—who once bemoaned “the influence of the Jewish lobby” in politics—will not publicly comment on a series of anti-Semitic remarks by far-left Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, raising concerns on
New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) announced on Wednesday that she will send in National Guard troops and additional police officers to help secure New York City’s subway amid crime surges in recent months. The governor will deploy 1,000 service members to patrol and “conduct bag checks in the city’s busiest stations,” including 750 members
Adeel Mangi also serves on the board of a group founded by cop-killing domestic terrorist Adeel Abdullah Mangi (Twitter) The White House is in overdrive to save a Biden judicial nominee who has served on the boards of an anti-Israel think tank and a group that wants to free convicted cop-killers from prison. White House
‘If we do not stand up to antisemitism now, our universities and our country will be less safe,’ says Talia Khan MIT student Talia Khan speaks at the U.S. Capitol on December 5, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MIT Israel Alliance president Talia Khan will attend the State of the Union as a guest of House
City votes to crack down on drug users and boost police powers A San Francisco police car sits parked in front of the Hall of Justice (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) San Francisco residents on Tuesday voted to let police conduct more vehicle chases and deploy drones and surveillance cameras to fight crime. They also ordered mandatory