New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has drawn backlash from several pro-Israel political pundits and officials in response to his statement on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, in which he criticized what he called Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. Mamdani, who has been a sharp critic of Israeli Prime […]
Chief Justice John Roberts has handed 99-year-old U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman a lifeline in her yearslong fight against a suspension imposed by her colleagues, transferring the judicial disability dispute to a federal appeals court. Roberts moved the complaint from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit on […]
The State Department sent a demarche to Moscow requesting additional information regarding a purported plague outbreak in the Siberian oblast of Irkutsk. Last week, 28-year-old Russian lab technician Daria Shipilova died two days after being hospitalized, with what has now been identified by Rospotrebnadzor, Russia’s public health and consumer protection agency, as “pneumonia of unknown […]
A Pennsylvania religion professor and campus activist was arrested Tuesday for allegedly making violent threats to a Jewish woman’s family online. Haverford College professor Guangtin Ha’s career studying topics such as “global blackness” and “the gender of sound” was interrupted when the FBI tied him to social media posts advocating a second Holocaust and doxing […]
President Donald Trump is gleaming, golden — and naked, in a new European statue donned the “Orange Plague” displays the president completely exposed. The golden statue was unveiled in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Tuesday. It shows the president sitting on the shoulders of a shorter, thinner man, described as “frail” on […]
With less than a month to go before the general election and early voting set to begin in just 10 days, the two candidates in Texas’s closely watched Senate race are facing unique challenges. Democratic nominee James Talarico has canceled at least two campaign events after coming down with the flu, and Republican state Attorney […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said Republicans were unlikely to lose control of the House of Representatives after the midterm elections, but the future remains uncertain in the Senate. “I don’t think Republicans will be able to hold the House,” York said Tuesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. “For the Senate, I think […]
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday. At 11:30 a.m. Eastern, he will deliver remarks urging countries to join the United States in fostering the revitalization of Western countries. RUBIO SAYS REPORTED RUSSIAN LAB LEAK IS A ‘CAUSE FOR FOCUS’ BUT NOT ‘ALARM’ Rubio will deliver remarks at the ruins of […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has introduced a bill directing the Smithsonian Institution to display the Trump administration’s “propaganda” in the National Museum of American History. The legislation would require the Smithsonian to preserve the banners featuring President Donald Trump outside several federal buildings around the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and any other artifacts “reflecting […]
Washington Examiner executive editor Bob Cusack said Republican candidates face a conundrum in the midterm elections: They need President Donald Trump’s base to turn out, but his “abysmal” numbers make him a liability. “If he goes to Maine, the chances of Susan Collins winning plummets,” Cusack said Tuesday on CNN’s Laura Coates Live. “That’s why […]
