Two months into the Biden administration, a top official at the Department of Agriculture fielded a question, from a New York Times reporter about a program, that she couldn’t answer. The reporter emailed Deputy Undersecretary of Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Stacy Dean on March 30, 2021, asking for her thoughts on data that suggest
Republican chances of winning control of the U.S. Senate improved Wednesday when a Washington Post poll showed Larry Hogan (R., Md.) trouncing his potential Democratic opponents by double digits. The popular former governor, known for his independence and common sense, has been supporting Israel as his Democratic rivals squabble for left-wing votes. Though Hogan remains
A bipartisan group of senators expressed alarm as they emerged from a classified briefing on TikTok on Wednesday. The app, owned and controlled by a Chinese Communist Party-tied company, “is a gun pointed at Americans’ heads,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) said. “There was deep concern about the threat of TikTok from both sides of
TEL AVIV—A group of Harvard University professors visited Israel this week in a show of wartime solidarity with the Jewish state. But the visitors seemed to be just as much in need of support as their hosts. In a series of sessions at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday, members of the more-than-50-person delegation—which also included
More than a hundred migrants on Thursday tried to force their way across the U.S. southern border in Texas, overwhelming the National Guard troops deployed there by the state’s governor Greg Abbott (R.). Around 600 migrants showed up at Texas’s border with Mexico, with many in the crowd tearing through razor wire and knocking over
Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) on Thursday reportedly reaffirmed he will not seek reelection, snubbing Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer’s (D., N.Y.) suggestion that he do so to help keep the Senate out of Republicans’ control. “Hell no. Another six-year sentence here? Are you crazy?” Manchin said, according to HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic. The remark
A majority of Palestinians want Hamas to retain control of the Gaza Strip after its war against Israel ends, according to a new poll. “Gazans’ support for continued Hamas control over the Gaza Strip has increased to more than 50 percent, a 14-point rise” during the past several months, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy