NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed during a fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that his country would continue its military operation in Lebanon in defiance of a U.S. cease-fire proposal demanding a temporary halt in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. His swaggering, bellicose remarks included a warning to all of Israel’s enemies, namely ...
U.S. officials on Friday said they have agreed to a two-stage shift in the American military presence in Iraq that will allow for continued operations against Islamic State militants in Syria, but pointedly disputed Baghdad’s earlier assertions that a near-total withdrawal is underway. The announcement, coming two weeks after the Iraqi government said it had reached a deal with the ...
“It [the 2019 impeachment] was over a phone call with the president, and … he could have grandstanded and played cute. But he didn’t do that. He said President Trump did absolutely nothing wrong. He said it loud and clear.” —Former president Donald Trump, remarks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Trump Tower, Sept. 27 Zelensky was largely silent and ...
It’s been evident for some time that Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) underwent a politically convenient evolution on Donald Trump. A staunch critic of Trump when he first ran for president in 2016, Vance gradually reinvented himself publicly and then fully embraced Trump for his own Senate race in 2022 — when he needed the votes of Trump supporters in a ...
With fewer than six weeks left until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign is significantly outspending Donald Trump’s on television and digital advertising, according to a new report from the Wesleyan Media Project released this week. Over the past two weeks, Harris’s campaign and supporting groups spent nearly $73 million on almost 73,000 broadcast television ads promoting her White ...
Mayra Vélez Serrano drove to work Wednesday along Puerto Rico’s Highway 18, one of the island’s busiest freeways. It would’ve been a normal drive — had it not been for a new, giant billboard that left her “absolutely floored,” said the political science professor at University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras. There, in Spanish on a black background, was ...
Shortly after Kamala Harris took control of Joe Biden’s campaign, her top advisers began holding senior staff meetings unlike any that had happened before. New strategists appeared on Zoom calls with the Wilmington brass, and a transformed decision-making process took over. The competing power centers that had defined Biden’s world — a headquarters staff, a White House operation and a ...
CHARLOTTE — North Carolina Republicans were in a panic last week as CNN prepared to drop a devastating story about their nominee for governor, Mark Robinson. Some sought help from the man who had supercharged Robinson’s candidacy: Donald Trump. A member of Robinson’s own team asked the Trump campaign for help persuading their boss to drop out, according to a ...
Jamaal Sanford received a disturbing email in May of last year. The message, whose sender claimed to be part of a “Russian shadow team,” contained Sanford’s home address, social security number and his daughter’s college. It came with a very specific threat. The sender said Sanford, who lives in Springfield, Missouri, would only only be safe if he removed a ...
Japan’s ruling party will elect its new leader Friday, and the winner will become the country’s next prime minister. Out of a record nine candidates, three frontrunners are fighting a very close race that will likely end in a runoff vote. The winner will take the helm of the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of rising living costs, exacerbated by ...