Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon announced Tuesday that his country will ban UNRWA, a Palestinian refugee agency whose members participated in Hamas’s October 7 massacre, from operating in Israeli territory. “UNRWA has miserably failed in its mandate. It has failed the people who are supposed to benefit from its services,” Danon said
Multiple polls have shown a majority of Americans support deporting illegal immigrants MSNBC pundit Anand Giridharadas on Tuesday compared Immigrant and Customs Enforcement’s deportations to “Gestapo raids,” though polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans support the agency’s efforts. “When you start having Gestapo raids in America, and we start becoming a country where, as
‘I know the last administration didn’t see it that way,’ Leavitt tells reporters White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said all illegal immigrants are criminals, as they broke U.S. immigration laws. During Leavitt’s first press conference, a reporter asked the new press secretary how many of the 3,500 illegal migrants arrested by Immigration and Customs
The Senate in a 77-22 vote on Tuesday confirmed Sean Duffy as President Donald Trump’s secretary of transportation. Trump tapped Duffy shortly after his election victory in November, calling the Wisconsin native a “tremendous and well-liked public servant.” The Senate advanced Duffy’s nomination on Monday with a 97-0 vote, following unanimous approval from the Senate
Michigan senator Gary Peters (D.) announced he will not seek a third term, creating a prime opportunity for Republicans to pick up the battleground state even as former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg weighs a bid. Peters, who led Senate Democrats’ campaign efforts in the past two election cycles, plans to leave public office when his
President also signs order barring transgender troops (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that abolishes diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the military. The “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” order, released late Monday night, states that such programs “undermine leadership, merit, and unit cohesion, thereby eroding lethality and force readiness”
Even before the Los Angeles wildfires broke out, 6 in 10 Californians said the state was heading in the wrong direction. Add in the blazes that have since exposed Gavin Newsom’s incompetent governing, and it’s clear that Newsom’s flacks have their work cut out for them. We can almost sympathize, then, with the Newsom administration’s