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A report on the human rights situation in Gaza It was 93 degrees in Gaza on Wednesday, and the best that most survivors of Israel’s war there could manage was to find shade under a tent. The Israeli air force, unchallenged by anti-aircraft defenses, has damaged or destroyed 92 percent of the territory’s homes and apartment buildings, leaving the Palestinian survivors of the war lucky, but surely not grateful, to have a tent over their heads. The Israeli bombing of Gaza has now gone on for more than thirty months. It began immediately after Hamas’s attack on Israel of October…

The clock appears to be ticking on the scandal-ridden government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with half of the UK public believing he should resign, as controversy reigns over his decision to appoint Lord Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States. With just two weeks to go before British voters will head to the polls for local elections across the country, Prime Minsiter Starmer and his left-wing Labour Party continue to struggle with convincing the public of their worth. According to a UK Political Pulse survey from Ipsos for broadcaster LBC, a survey of 2,262 British adults conducted earlier this…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said a Secret Service agent was shot in the bulletproof vest by the would-be murderer who attempted to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night. Trump informed the press that the agent had been shot but is in “good spirits,” during a White House press briefing shortly after the event was canceled at the Washington Hilton hotel. “One officer was shot, but saved by the fact that he was wearing obviously a very good bulletproof vest,” Trump said. “He was shot from very close distance with a very powerful gun, and the vest…

“It could have been much worse … It was incredible to witness these highly trained experts spring into action,” evangelical leader Franklin Graham said in a late-night statement Saturday after the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington, DC. Graham, the president of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said: I was at the Washington Hilton tonight for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as the guest of NEWSMAX President Chris Ruddy, and Greta Van Susteren and her husband John Coale. We are still learning details, but I am grateful to God that…

Welcome to another grueling week in the House. A growing list of deadlines is bearing down on Speaker Mike Johnson as House Republicans try to push through an extension of an expiring government spy power Tuesday, a budget plan to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown Wednesday and a farm bill many members say is key to midterm victories Thursday. Each legislative undertaking is deeply complicated and rife with intraparty warfare — from a MAHA revolt over the farm bill to a rebellion from ultraconservatives who blocked Johnson’s last bid to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…

Tehran has proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz first, and then focus on nuclear talks, according to the report Iran has made the US a new proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the war – postponing nuclear negotiations to a later stage to break the deadlock in the high-stakes talks, Axios reports, citing sources.An unnamed US official and two other sources familiar with the matter told the outlet that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi mentioned the plan during back-to-back visits to Islamabad, informing the Pakistani, Egyptian, Turkish, and Qatari mediators that Iran’s leadership has no internal consensus…

The suspected White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner shooter donated money to ActBlue, the Democrat fundraising arm, according to reports. The suspect, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, meant for the money to go to former Vice President Kamala Harris’s (D) presidential campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The newspaper said officials have not shared a possible motive behind the shooting that happened at the Washington Hilton hotel where President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were in attendance for the event: In October 2024, Allen donated $25 to ActBlue, a political action committee that raises funds for Democrats,…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said they believe the suspect in last night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting was targeting members of the Trump administration. Host Dana Bash said, “First question is, what has law enforcement learned so far from the gunman? Have you been able to determine a motive?” Blanche said, “Good morning. So we executed a number of search warrants last night. FBI worked through the night, along with state and local law enforcement at both coasts in Los Angeles and here and in D.C. We executed search warrants on devices, electronic…

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said he did not have a personal problem with President Donald Trump when he called him an “authoritarian.” Host Dana Bash said, “You have, and as many of your fellow Democrats have used some heated rhetoric against the president. And do you think twice about that when something like this happens?” Raskin said. “But what rhetoric do you have in mind?” Bash said, “Just talking about some of the the fact that he, you know, is terrible for this country and so on and so forth, I understand that…

The armed man who breached security at a press dinner attended by President Trump detailed his motives in a manifesto, naming US officials as targets “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”The attacker, identified as 31-year-old California teacher Cole Allen, sent a note to relatives roughly ten minutes before Saturday’s attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, according to the New York Post, which first published the text.In the 1,052-word manifesto, signed Cole “coldForce” “Friendly Federal Assassin” Allen, the suspect described himself as a “half-black, half-white” American citizen and framed his actions as a matter of personal…