An aide to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin asked a 911 operator that an ambulance retrieving the secretary not use lights and sirens to keep things “subtle.” “Can I ask—can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens? Uhm, we’re trying to remain a little subtle,” said the aide, according to the Daily Beast, which
Anti-Israel government employees planning a “walkout” to protest the Biden administration’s military support for Israel had their plans foiled after a snow day shut down all federal offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Anonymous protest organizers claimed that “hundreds” of employees from the White House and other agencies, including the State Department, the Defense Department,
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) will force a vote on a measure that would threaten to freeze military aid to Israel. The Senate will vote Tuesday on the resolution that would require the State Department to produce a review within 30 days on whether the Jewish state violated human rights during its war against Hamas
American Navy SEALs last week seized Iran-made weapons parts that a small boat was carrying to the Houthis in Yemen, the U.S. military said Tuesday. “This is the first seizure of lethal, Iranian-supplied advanced conventional weapons to the Houthis since the beginning of Houthi attacks against merchant ships in November 2023,” U.S. Central Command said
Pro-Palestinian protesters on Monday chanted at a cancer hospital in New York City, yelling “shame” at the treatment center. “We will continue to march as we talk about another complicit institution, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Center. Make sure they hear you. They’re in the windows,” one organizer told a crowd of marching demonstrators as they
Former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, one of the few Republican presidential hopefuls to forcefully criticize frontrunner Donald Trump, dropped out of the race on Tuesday after struggling to gain traction in the polls. “My message of being a principled Republican with experience and telling the truth about the current front-runner did not sell in Iowa.
Mohammed El-Kurd denounced Israel and called to root Zionism out of the world Mohammed el-Kurd speaks at pro-Palestinian rally in London (Islam Channel/YouTube) The Nation magazine’s Palestinian correspondent is being investigated by the London Metropolitan Police after saying “we must normalize massacres as the status quo” during an anti-Israel demonstration last weekend. Mohammed El-Kurd, who