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President Biden laid it out for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel lengthy earlier than letting the general public know. In a dialog bristling with stress on Feb. 11, the president warned the prime minister towards a serious assault on the Gaza metropolis of Rafah — and urged that continued U.S. assist would rely on […] More

Just a few hours after Columbia University canceled its predominant graduation ceremony following weeks of pro-Palestinian scholar protests, Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania was in his workplace in Harrisburg, taking inventory of the methods he sees universities letting college students down. “Our schools, in lots of instances, are failing younger individuals,” he mentioned in an […] More

President Biden started a fund-raising swing via California and Washington on Friday, courting an elite subset of donors in a string of marketing campaign occasions hosted by rich backers. Mr. Biden deliberate two marketing campaign receptions on Friday exterior San Francisco, the primary on the Portola Valley house of Vinod Khosla, a billionaire Silicon Valley […] More

Barron Trump, former President Donald J. Trump’s youngest son who has stayed out of the highlight since his father entered politics, is not going to function one in all Florida’s delegates to the Republican National Convention, the workplace of Melania Trump introduced on Friday. In an announcement launched two days after Barron, 18, was chosen […] More

Happy Friday! You’ve made it by means of per week of dramatic Stormy Daniels testimony, a mind worm and a failed try and oust House Speaker Mike Johnson. Today we’re overlaying a distinct journey Trump took to court docket — and we’ll meet an unlikely surrogate for the Biden administration’s Gaza outreach. Donald Trump was […] More

For months, the Biden administration has pleaded with Israel to do extra to guard Palestinian civilians, who’ve borne the brunt of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s marketing campaign in Gaza to destroy Hamas. But now, on the eve of Israel’s long-threatened main assault on the town of Rafah, the gulf between what the United States is […] More

The president was furious. He had simply been proven photos of civilians killed by Israeli shelling, together with a small child with an arm blown off. He ordered aides to get the Israeli prime minister on the telephone after which dressed him down sharply. The president was Ronald Reagan, the 12 months was 1982, and […] More

Seven months into Israel’s battle in Gaza, Muslim and Arab American leaders say their channels of communication with President Biden’s White House have largely damaged down, leaving the administration and not using a politically invaluable refrain of help for his vital shift on the battle this week. Mr. Biden’s announcement that he had paused a […] More

On the fifteenth evening of Ramadan in a suburb of Belize City, Majid Khan and his household of 4 sat down for a standard iftar meal to interrupt the daytime quick. There was a leg of a lamb that Majid, a former Guantánamo detainee, had slaughtered himself, sweets introduced by a sister in Maryland, dates […] More

To perceive what is occurring now within the Middle East, it could be useful to recollect the dead cat. That was a favourite metaphor for Secretary of State James A. Baker III as he shuttled across the area in 1991 making an attempt to barter a sophisticated deal. With every recalcitrant participant, Mr. Baker would […] More

Former President Donald J. Trump on Thursday assailed President Biden for threatening to halt weapons provides to Israel, and he repeatedly turned to castigating American Jews who assist Mr. Biden, suggesting that they had been betraying their non secular and cultural identification. Outside the Manhattan courtroom the place he’s on trial for costs associated to […] More

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it more durable for individuals whose property had been seized by the police to argue for its swift return. By a 6-to-3 vote, the court docket dominated in opposition to two Alabama girls who had sought immediate hearings to get better vehicles they owned that had been taken by […] More