BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND MIKE LILLIS |
Jewish Democrats are raging at Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over legislation providing aid to Israel, accusing the newly installed leader of choosing a partisan tack that will only delay emergency assistance to America's closest Middle Eastern ally. All but 12 House Democrats voted against Johnson's $14.3 billion aid proposal Thursday night, with most citing the Speaker's decision to include cuts in equal amounts to IRS funding. |
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EMILY's List added new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to a list of Republicans it is targeting for their views on abortion ahead of the 2024 election. "MAGA Mike Johnson and his supporters have made their plan to ban abortion crystal clear. Every single one of the Republicans EMILYs List has already put 'On Notice' voted to install Johnson as speaker, endorsing his radical agenda and showing their true priorities," said EMILY's List Interim President Jessica Mackler in a Friday release obtained by Punchbowl News. |
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With the world's attention shifting to the Israel-Hamas war, Ukraine fears it is being left behind as it continues a costly struggle against Russian forces and anxiously waits on Congress to pass another aid package before the winter sets in. Ukraine was already concerned before the Gaza war broke out, after Congress failed to include funding for Kyiv in a temporary government spending bill because a faction of House Republicans fiercely resisted it. |
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The Pentagon will no longer allow its senior military leaders to travel to Israel and will discourage members of Congress from making trips amid the country's ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza, according to a memo released Friday. The memo, confirmed to The Hill by a Defense Department official, was dated to go into effect Tuesday. The restrictions do not apply to President Biden, members of Biden's Cabinet, Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Christopher Grady or the service secretaries or chiefs. |
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The publisher of Mark Meadows's book is suing the former White House chief of staff, arguing in court filings Friday morning that he violated an agreement with All Seasons Press by including false statements about former President Trump's claims surrounding the 2020 election. "Meadows, the former White House Chief of Staff under President Donald J. Trump, promised and represented that 'all statements contained in the Work are true and based on reasonable research for accuracy' and that he 'has not made any misrepresentations to the Publisher about the Work,'" the publishing company writes in its suit, filed in court in Sarasota County, Fla. |
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An appeals court Friday ordered an administrative stay of a gag order barring former President Trump from targeting witnesses and the prosecutors in his federal election interference case, temporarily pausing its implementation ahead of further legal battles. The order from the D.C. Circuit court of appeals also expedites the case. |
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The jury in writer E. Jean Carroll's original defamation case against former President Trump will be kept anonymous, a New York judge federal judge ruled Friday. Judge Lewis Kaplan cited Trump's "repeated public statements" about Carroll and in his numerous other court cases as part of the reasoning for his decision. Trump is currently facing a pair of narrow gag orders limiting his speech in two separate legal trials. |
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The New York judge overseeing former President Trump's financial fraud trial on Friday extended a gag order issued in the case to Trump's attorneys, barring them from making comments about his communications with his staff and saying the comments have spurred threats. Judge Arthur Engoron has already prohibited Trump from making public comments about his court staff after the former president attacked one of his clerks on social media after posting a picture of her with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and falsely calling her Schumer's "girlfriend." |
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As the end of daylight saving time looms this year, the U.S. Congress is still hung up on whether to make it permanent. A bill to do so hit a brick wall in the House last year, despite passing the Senate by unanimous consent. The bill, the Sunshine Protection Act, was reintroduced in March by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) in the Senate, and Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.) introduced companion legislation in the House. |
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OPINION | The current debate over another aid package to Ukraine and a new one for Israel are exposing the deep ideological problems with both parties and the reason Congress is so unpopular. Americans have long memories. They recall that the initial popularity of our engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq, and also how both ended with ugly withdrawals. Republicans in particular remember how badly their saber-rattling over Iraq came back to haunt them politically just a few years later. |
OPINION | The courts have been active in striking down congressional maps drawn by Republican legislatures. In June, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower court's ruling that the Alabama congressional map did not provide sufficient district representation for Black voters. A second Supreme Court ruling in September further strengthened the first ruling. More recently, a federal court ruled in the same manner and with the same reason on Georgia's congressional map. |
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BY CHRISTOPH KOETTL, AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER, HALEY WILLIS AND ALEXANDER CARDIA | Israel used at least two 2,000-pound bombs during an airstrike on Tuesday on Jabaliya, a dense area just north of Gaza City, according to experts and an analysis conducted by The New York Times of satellite images, photos and videos. |
BY MATT BARNUM, SARA RANDAZZO AND MELISSA KORN | Rising tensions on campuses related to the Israel-Hamas war have led to widespread calls for colleges to do more to protect Jewish students from bigotry and threats of physical harm. |
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban Saturday appealed to Afghanistan's private sector to help people fleeing Pakistan's mass deportation drive. |
Jewish mortars and loudspeaker trucks shook Arab neighborhoods in early 1948 as sectarian fighting consumed the newly partitioned land that would soon become Israel. Amid the prolonged shelling, the trucks would broadcast the threatening sounds of wailing sirens, fake screams and evacuation warnings. |
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