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Counterterrorism coordinator leaves out Hamas when discussing how to defeat terrorism in Turkey Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Haniyeh Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via Reuters) The State Department’s top counterterrorism official was in Turkey this week for meetings, but missing from her schedule were discussions about Hamas—an omission that isn’t going unnoticed

Gazan terrorists on Wednesday launched mortar shells at a site off the coast of Gaza where the United States is planning to construct a floating pier to deliver humanitarian aid, according to a report from Israeli outlet i24NEWS. The mortar attack damaged American engineering equipment and left one person injured, i24NEWS reported on Thursday. The

U.S. economic growth in the first quarter fell below the Federal Reserve’s estimates of the economy’s long-run potential for the first time in nearly two years, but the signs of slowing were accompanied with fast inflation that, if sustained, would pose a particular dilemma for the central bank. Fed officials through much of their battle

As Pennsylvania state auditor, Bob Casey disclosed to state ethics officials that his relationship with his lobbyist brother-in-law could be “perceived to constitute a conflict of interest.” More than two decades later, Casey has opened his Senate office to one of that brother-in-law’s clients. Patrick Brier, Casey’s brother-in-law, began lobbying for the Rehabilitation and Care

On the campaign trail, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D.) pitches himself as a populist who shares Ohio’s blue-collar values. But inside a “Women for Sherrod Brown” fundraiser in March, Brown’s wife and a left-wing writer cast a more progressive image, slamming “heteronormal men” and saying Donald Trump will become a dictator if reelected. Brown’s wife, Connie

MANHATTAN—A group of Republican lawmakers, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson (La.), descended on Columbia University on Wednesday and called for school president Minouche Shafik’s resignation. Their remarks, delivered at a press conference on the steps of Columbia’s Low Library, elicited near-constant jeers from the student protesters, many of whom have also been demanding Shafik’s

House speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) and other Republican representatives traveled to Columbia University on Wednesday to denounce the rampant displays of anti-Semitism on the campus. “A growing number of students have chanted in support of terrorists,” Johnson said in an address facing the student protest encampment on the campus lawn. The House speaker said