Nation and World Politics
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Jun 30, 2025 10:07 am - Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire that left 23 dead as Palestinians tried to get desperately needed food aid, witnesses and health officials said.
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Survivor of Israel’s attack on Iran’s Evin prison describes a ‘slow death’ after 12-day war
Jun 30, 2025 9:59 am - Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran's Evin Prison, where she was held. She had just stepped out of the prison's clinic moments before it was destroyed.
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Trump administration finds Harvard failed to protect Jewish students, threatens to cut all funding
Jun 30, 2025 9:56 am - Harvard University failed to protect Jewish students from harassment, the Trump administration concluded after an investigation, threatening to cut all federal funding from the Ivy League school if it fails to take action.
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How Democrats in America’s most Jewish city embraced a critic of Israel for New York mayor
Jun 29, 2025 4:57 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — In choosing Zohran Mamdani as their candidate for mayor, Democrats in America’s most Jewish city have nominated an outspoken critic of Israel, alarming so...
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Israelis love Trump. But some are unnerved by his vow to save Netanyahu from his corruption trial
Jun 29, 2025 6:00 am - JERUSALEM — President Donald Trump's call for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial to be thrown out has plunged the American leader into one of Israel's m...
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Immigrants drive population growth in a graying America, census shows
Jun 29, 2025 6:00 am - Immigration is driving U.S. population growth and helping offset a broader demographic shift as the baby boom generation ages, according to data from the U.S. Census Bure...
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White House seeks to cut nation’s only federal after-school programJun 28, 2025 4:55 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to cut the only federal after-school programming in the nation. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers, a program created by the ...
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Beloved dog joined Minnesota lawmaker, husband as they lay in state
Jun 28, 2025 4:17 pm - Thousands of people lined up at the Minnesota Capitol to pay tribute to slain lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, as they lay in state Friday, ahead of Saturd...
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‘Kisses yes, Bezos No,’ protesters say, as Bezos wedding bonanza stirs controversy in Venice
Jun 28, 2025 4:13 pm - VENICE, Italy — Hundreds of protesters marched through Venice's central streets on Saturday to say “No” to billionaire Jeff Bezos, his bride and their much-awaited weddin...
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Trump says he will move aggressively to undo nationwide blocks on his agenda
Jun 28, 2025 3:30 pm - An emboldened Trump administration plans to aggressively challenge blocks on the president’s top priorities, a White House official said, following a major Supreme Court ...