The White House on Friday welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian Authority government, suggesting the West Bank-based PA was on track to take over administration of Gaza from Hamas. President Joe Biden’s administration “looks forward to working with the new cabinet,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement. “A revitalized PA is
Israel must move forward with an incursion into the Gaza Strip city of Rafah so that it can “hunt down and destroy Hamas once and for all,” former vice president Mike Pence will declare on Monday evening, according to an advance transcript of his remarks reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. “Whatever position the current
After years immersed in radical politics, the nominee claims he never knew nothing about it Adeel Mangi (Graeme Sloan/Wikimedia Commons) To hear the Biden White House and their allies tell it, Third Circuit judicial nominee Adeel Mangi—whose nomination is all but dead following three Democratic defections—is the victim of a vicious right-wing smear campaign. White
California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers became law Monday and quickly caused chaos, with pizza chains preparing to cut hundreds of employees, ice cream and pretzel shop franchisees struggling to learn if the law applies to them, and industry leaders eyeing price hikes in the state. California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) last week signed more carve-outs for the law,
Israel is set to ban Qatari state-controlled news outlet Al Jazeera within its borders after passing a law on Monday that allows officials to shut down foreign media networks deemed harmful to Israel’s national security. “The terrorist channel Al Jazeera will no longer broadcast from Israel. I intend to act immediately in accordance with the
Office of Palestinian Affairs under fire for calling on Israel to stand down hours after Hamas terror attack Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Amir Levy/Getty Images) Congress is increasing its oversight on the State Department’s Office of Palestinian Affairs (OPA), which urged Israel to stand down and avoid “retaliatory attacks” just hours after Hamas’s terror
A Russian intelligence unit that specializes in assassinations may be behind “Havana syndrome,” a mysterious condition that afflicted U.S. diplomats, according to a report. A joint investigation by CBS’s 60 Minutes, along with Der Spiegel and The Insider, revealed links between Russia’s GRU Unit 29155 and suspected attacks on U.S. government officials both in the