President Joe Biden, not investigators, was the one who brought up the death of his son Beau in his interview with a special counsel, NBC News reported Wednesday. Although Biden in a Thursday press conference claimed Special Counsel Robert Hur had asked him in his October interview when Beau Biden passed away, it was the president
After skirting discipline last fall, MIT Coalition Against Apartheid can no longer organize on campus The Massachusetts Institute of Technology suspended an anti-Israel student group that has held unsanctioned demonstrations on campus in the wake of Oct. 7, with university president Sally Kornbluth saying the group disrupted and endangered students. MIT Coalition Against Apartheid “once
An Al Jazeera reporter wounded Tuesday during an Israeli airstrike in Gaza is a Hamas commander who recorded a video on Oct. 7 from within Israel praising Hamas’s terrorist attack, the Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday. Ismail Abu Omar has been serving as a deputy company commander for Hamas’s eastern battalion in the southern
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) says he is “honored” to have the endorsement of a left-wing group that wants to defund police departments and a federal immigration agency. The Indivisible Project, which calls itself one of the nation’s largest progressive grassroots groups, endorsed Gallego on Wednesday, its second endorsement in a 2024 Senate race. Gallego
South Africa’s latest request to the World Court against a possible offensive by Israel in southern Gaza serves Hamas and is an attempt to stop Israel from defending itself, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. South Africa on Tuesday asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to consider whether Israel’s plan to extend its
Climate protesters on Wednesday dumped pink powder on the United States Constitution at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Two young men poured the powder on the Constitution—which is protected by a glass casing in the building’s rotunda—as they called for President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, video showed. Security promptly cleared the
Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D., N.J.) wife, Nadine, used a phone the couple referred to as her “007 phone” in the bribery scheme alleged against the couple, prosecutors said in a Monday court filing. Menendez called his wife in January 2019 on “a phone Menendez and Nadine Menendez referred to as her ‘007’ phone, an apparent