A defiant Benjamin Netanyahu, in an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, dismissed as “utter nonsense” criticisms by the United Nations, human rights groups and others that his government has committed war crimes in Gaza and derided protesters as “idiots” and tools of Iran. The embattled Israeli prime minister told U.S. lawmakers that Israel will settle for ...
An Instagram video posted Wednesday shows hundreds of mealworms, maggots and crickets crawling around the Watergate Hotel where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is staying during his visit to D.C., raising questions about how protesters who claimed to unleash the vermin were able to get onto the property as the area has been under tight security. The video, posted jointly ...
Nine days ago, Donald Trump picked a running mate in Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) that projected confidence about the race ahead. Trump seemed to be choosing a desire to guide his party in a more MAGA direction over expanding his base to improve his chances in the 2024 election. The flip side of that, as I noted at the time, ...
A year before J.D. Vance was elected to the Senate, he advocated for a novel way to enhance the political strength of families — by giving parents the ability to cast tens of millions of additional votes on behalf of their children. Vance, now the Republican nominee for vice president, in a 2021 speech called for encouraging Americans to have ...
When President Biden announced he was suspending his campaign for president, Donald Trump and some of his supporters stitched together a series of conspiracy theories about Biden’s health, his motives for dropping out, and even whether he was still alive. Those false assertions built on years of reality-bending messages from Trump and others on the right that have helped polarize ...
As soon as it became clear that Vice President Harris was going to emerge as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, a certain knowing joke emerged almost simultaneously on social media: images of various “whites” — white wines, white paint chips, white crackers — with captions implying that these were Harris’s vice-presidential choices. “Kamala’s VP options,” posted one user on X, ...
For almost six months, Democrats struggled with a strange paradox in which President Biden lagged behind in critical states while their Senate candidates built clear leads in those same battlegrounds. Even after Biden’s disastrous debate performance at the end of June, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) had an 11 percentage-point lead over his GOP foe, David McCormick, in mid-July, doubling his ...
It had the feeling of a fond farewell. There wasn’t a heavy dose of bitterness, and there was more than a hint of pride. But the man who has probably given more eulogies than any other U.S. politician had a significant amount of wistfulness tucked inside his Oval Office address. A bit like he is starting to reconcile with the ...
Kamala Harris, the country’s first female vice president, is no stranger to being the first in many rooms. Now that she’s the likely Democratic nominee in 2024, Harris has the chance to make history again. As a woman of color, and the daughter of two immigrants, Harris, 59, has talked about the responsibility to blaze a trail for others who ...
As Vice President Harris claims a huge surge in fundraising after President Biden’s stunning decision to step aside in the presidential race, Democrats are crowing about an unusual previous donor to her earlier campaigns: Donald Trump. Campaign finance records show that Trump — before he entered politics — donated $6,000 to Kamala D. Harris’s reelection campaigns while she was California ...