Nation and World Politics
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Netanyahu says Israel ‘will stand alone’ if it has to after threatened US arms holdup
May 09, 2024 6:58 am - NICOSIA, Cyprus — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu minister said Thursday that his country will “stand alone” if it has to in its war against Hamas — threatening...
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Stormy Daniels spars with Trump defense attorney in tense exchange over cash-for-silence transaction
May 09, 2024 6:54 am - NEW YORK — Donald Trump's defense attorneys grilled Stormy Daniels Thursday on the transaction at the center of the former president's hush money trial, pressing her on w...
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Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case
May 08, 2024 9:29 am - ATLANTA — A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday agreed to review a lower-court ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the ele...
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Biden lauds new Microsoft center on the same site where Trump's Foxconn project failed
May 08, 2024 7:02 am - President Joe Biden on Wednesday laced into Donald Trump over a failed project in the previous administration that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southe...
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Police clearing pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University, dozens arrested
May 08, 2024 6:58 am - Police began to clear a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University early Wednesday and arrested dozens of protesters, hours after dozens left the sit...
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Israel says it reopened a key Gaza crossing after a rocket attack but the U.N. says no aid has entered
May 08, 2024 6:56 am - JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said Wednesday that it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, a key terminal for the entry of humanitarian aid that was closed...
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Russia hits Ukraine’s power grid with a ‘massive’ attack on a day marking the WWII defeat of Nazism
May 08, 2024 6:54 am - KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces unleashed a nighttime barrage of more than 50 cruise missiles and explosive drones at Ukraine’s power grid Wednesday, targeting a wide area...
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Israeli forces seize Rafah crossing in Gaza, threatening aid and putting cease-fire talks on edge
May 07, 2024 7:27 am - CAIRO — Israeli troops seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing on Tuesday in what the White House described as a limited operation, as fears mount of a full-...
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Stormy Daniels describes meeting Trump during occasionally graphic testimony in hush money trialMay 07, 2024 7:24 am - NEW YORK —With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor sa...
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University of Chicago clears a pro-Palestinian demonstration as MIT confronts a new encampment
May 07, 2024 7:15 am - Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe.