Senate Democrats greenlit President Joe Biden’s renomination of Julie Su as labor secretary in a closed-door, party-line vote Tuesday, sparking criticism from Republicans that the secretive vote has forestalled any further vetting of the controversial nominee. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders (I.), who leads the Senate Labor Committee, sent notice of the vote on Monday, noting
Hamas, along with some prominent left-wingers in the United States, this week valorized an airman who lit himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., in protest of the Jewish state’s war in Gaza—with the terror group saying he would live “immortal” in Palestinian memory. “The heroic pilot Aaron Bushnell will
Rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.) canceled an upcoming appearance at a fundraiser for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an anti-Israel group whose leader recently praised Hamas’s attack on Israel. The Washington Free Beacon reported last week that Lee was slated to speak at a CAIR fundraiser on March 2, and
The White House and President Joe Biden’s campaign team are reportedly in panic mode over an effort in Michigan urging Democratic voters to protest his handling of the Israel-Hamas war by voting “Uncommitted” in the state’s Tuesday presidential primary. “They are freaking out about the uncommitted vote,” a Democrat close to Biden said of the
After President Joe Biden on Monday suggested that a ceasefire deal in the war between Israel and Hamas was imminent, several parties in the negotiations appeared to cast doubt on his comment. “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close,” Biden told reporters in New York. “We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope
WHITEWATER, Wis.—The migrants began to trickle into Whitewater, a sleepy town of 15,000 an hour west of Milwaukee, toward the end of 2021. Prior to their arrival, local news and political debates generally revolved around school fundraisers or the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s D3 athletics. Today, residents are focused on their 1,000 new neighbors, who mostly
During a Jan. 5 interview with socialist podcast Revolutionary Left Radio, Islamic scholar Mohamed Abdou declared his support for Hamas and “the resistance.” The terror group’s “dedicated few,” he said admiringly, worked in “stealth mode” on Oct. 7 to defeat a “larger enemy” in Israel. Just days later, on Jan. 16, Columbia University’s Middle East