Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Tuesday that Israel would not pay any price for the return of hostages still held by Hamas amid ongoing negotiations to secure their release. Asked about the 134 hostages who remain in Gaza, Smotrich told Kan Radio that their return was “very important”
The Biden administration is scaling back its push to shift Americans from gas-powered to electric vehicles, a move aimed at appeasing automakers and labor unions ahead of the presidential election this fall, according to the New York Times. The Environmental Protection Agency last spring introduced stringent limits on tailpipe emissions, effectively requiring at least 67
Russia‘s Federal Security Service said on Tuesday it had detained a 33-year-old woman with dual Russian-U.S. citizenship on suspicion of treason for raising funds for Ukraine’s armed forces. The Los Angeles resident had been collecting funds for a Ukrainian organization whose ultimate beneficiary was the Ukrainian army, the FSB said in a statement. It said it had opened a treason case against the woman, who was
Harvard University is probing an anti-Semitic cartoon that both faculty and student groups shared Monday, the school announced. “Such despicable messages have no place in the Harvard community,” the university said Monday in a statement. “We condemn these posts in the strongest possible terms. This matter is being reviewed by the university and is being
Diplomats in the Biden State Department privately expressed alarm over a $1 million taxpayer-funded grant meant to bankroll investigations into alleged Israeli human rights violations, contradicting the agency’s public defense of the funding initiative. Now, the State Department won’t say whether it went through with the grant. A State Department official criticized colleagues in the
When Senator Martin Heinrich’s chief of staff Joe Britton left his role, the New Mexico Democrat heaped praise on his former right-hand man, saying Britton would “continue to make a difference in the lives of everyone he meets.” In the years following his departure, Britton did make a difference—to Heinrich’s campaign coffers. After leaving Heinrich’s office,
Imports of Chinese lithium batteries have increased more than 500 percent since Biden took office (White House, via Wikimedia Commons) In July 2022, weeks before President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, the Democrat said the bill would “give us the ability … to compete with China” and its dominant battery industry.