President Joe Biden on Thursday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during a phone call with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “[Biden] underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the Prime Minister to empower his negotiators to conclude
Rep. David Trone (D., Md.) on Wednesday backed out of a televised debate with his Senate primary opponent, a black woman, amid ongoing fallout from his use of a racial slur. Trone’s refusal to participate in the April 23 debate with Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks comes amid fallout from his “mistaken” use of
Iran and its military forces in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon held a series of joint war drills on Thursday aimed at supporting “Palestinian Intifada” and sending a warning signal to Israel in the wake of a major strike this week on Tehran’s consulate in Damascus. A more-than-3,000-ship convoy, composed of Iran’s volunteer Basij forces,
Effort to boost the embattled judicial nominee also highlights his radical ties Adeel Abdullah Mangi (Twitter) Senate Democrats are touting letters of support from dozens of liberal groups in a last-ditch effort to save Adeel Mangi’s nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. But some of the organizations share the radical positions that imperiled
A Chinese biotechnology company linked to the Chinese Communist Party has hired the lobbying firm of Sen. Bob Casey’s (D., Pa.) brother as it fights legislation that would restrict its business in the United States over national security concerns. WuXi AppTec hired Dentons Global Advisors last month to lobby on “federal matters regarding biotechnology,” according
A new poll this week shows Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D., N.Y.), a “Squad” member known for his anti-Israel stance, is down 17 points in his bid for a third House term. Westchester County executive George Latimer (D.) is leading Bowman 52 percent to 35 percent among Democratic primary voters in New York’s 16th Congressional District,
Tareq Baconi says Israel’s ‘regime of oppression’ to blame for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack Tareq Baconi (Institute for Palestine Studies) Harvard University invited a Hamas apologist, who has described the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack as “anti-colonial violence” that was “inevitable” and motivated by “oppression,” to speak on its campus. The event, slated to take