“We can plunge Lebanon completely into the dark and take apart Hezbollah’s power in days,” former Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz declared Tuesday at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. It was just the latest threat from a prominent Israeli public figure against Lebanon and Hezbollah as tensions flare. It won’t be difficult for Israel to plunge Lebanon into darkness. The country’s power ...
China on Thursday expelled its former Defense Minister Li Shangfu and his predecessor from the ruling Communist Party over corruption allegations, state broadcaster CCTV reported, deepening a sweeping purge within the top ranks of the military. Li was removed in October last year without explanation after he vanished from public view for two months, amid a series of high-level shakeups ...
Prince Harry has opened up about bereavement and grief during a conversation with the founder of a charity that supports children who have lost a parent serving in the British armed forces. “You convince yourself that the person you’ve lost wants you, or you need to be sad for as long as possible to prove to them that they are ...
The Supreme Court on Friday curtailed the power of federal agencies to regulate the environment, public health and other fundamental aspects of American life. The 6-3 ruling, written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., could make it easier for courts to block regulations aimed at addressing air pollution, combating climate change and protecting endangered species, lawyers say. Here’s what ...
President Biden is now threatened by the sentiment that brought him to the White House. Democrats came into 2020 traumatized by their party’s 2016 loss and by four years of Donald Trump’s hard-right presidency. The party internalized the idea that the key to beating Trump was doing better with blue-collar Midwestern Whites, and Biden was the natural guy to fill ...
High-profile Democratic officials, including some who have been floated as possible replacements should President Biden step aside as the party’s nominee, have begun weighing in on his debate performance Thursday night. Some of these Democrats have conceded that the commander in chief had a rocky debate night. But they still broadly defended the substance of Biden’s arguments and the policy ...
The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns with President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct. But the party abruptly jerked its head out of that sand Thursday night, after a meandering, ...
Federal prosecutors improperly charged a Jan. 6 defendant with obstruction, a divided Supreme Court ruled on Friday, likely upending many cases against rioters who disrupted the certification of the 2020 presidential election. After the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, federal prosecutors charged more than 350 participants in the pro-Trump mob with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding. The ...
President Biden and former president Donald Trump took the stage Thursday for the first presidential debate of the general election cycle, and they are scheduled to face off again in less than three months. Biden and Trump agreed in May to participate in two debates: One hosted Thursday by CNN and another hosted by ABC News scheduled for Sept. 10. ...
The victory lap began before the debate was over. Donald Trump’s aides had prepared for him to face the fiery President Biden who showed up to the State of the Union earlier this year. Instead, the former president faced a shaky opponent whose stumbles sent Democrats into a full-blown panic — and Trump largely held back from interrupting to let ...