U.S. senator Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) pleaded not guilty on Monday to a new indictment charging him with obstruction of justice, as the embattled Democratic lawmaker’s corruption trial draws near. Menendez entered the plea at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in Manhattan. Menendez was charged last year with taking bribes from New Jersey businessmen to impede law enforcement probes they
Italian police have arrested three Palestinians based in central Italy who they said were planning attacks in an unspecified country, a police statement said on Monday. The three men living in l’Aquila, about 75 miles northeast of Rome, had set up a cell linked to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, it said. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades is an armed group that is linked to Palestinian president
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israel Defense Forces will launch an offensive into Rafah, the Gaza Strip’s southernmost city, defying President Joe Biden’s warning that such an invasion would cross a “red line.” “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave them,” Netanyahu said during a Sunday interview when asked about the IDF’s
President Joe Biden said he regretted calling Laken Riley’s alleged murderer an “illegal” during his State of the Union address in an interview that aired Saturday. “I shouldn’t have used ‘illegal.’ It’s ‘undocumented,’” Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “And look, when I spoke about the difference between Trump and me, one of the things I
One grant went to a college in Massachusetts to study how floodplains respond to climate change (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Since January 2023, President Joe Biden’s National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent millions of dollars on grants funded by the American Rescue Plan, Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package. The grants have nothing to do with
It was October 10, three days after Hamas had murdered 1,200 Israelis and abducted hundreds more, and Jewish students at Middlebury College were trying to organize a vigil for the victims. They reached out to Middlebury’s dean of students, Derek Doucet, with a draft poster promoting the event, which they invited administrators at the elite
Increasingly our best works of American history are being authored by writers who’ve never attended a faculty meeting. Think James Rosen on Antonin Scalia, Jonathan Eig on Martin Luther King Jr., or Joshua Prager on Norma McCorvey and Roe v. Wade. Add to that list Jared Cohen, president of global affairs at Goldman Sachs, who