A federal judge ruled DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin cannot withhold Oregon disaster relief over President Donald Trump's 'pronoun' mandates as wildfires burn across the state.In a blistering order on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Michael McShane explained why he granted the city of Salem a prelimin...

Two people familiar with the deliberations tell The Associated Press the Republican administration's proposed changes could significantly reduce the preschool program's quality standards.

President Donald Trump's erratic eruptions as Congress lay "prostrate" before him have led the United States to the "brink of catastrophe" — and it's up to voters to stop it, a furious opinion writer argued Sunday.New York Times columnist David French issued this dire warning to American voters ahea...

NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matter New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has said he was reviewing whether his administration could arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if as expected the Israeli prime minister visits the city for the UN general assembly in September. Mamdani’s comments on Saturday’s episode of the New York Times’s the Interview podcast echoed ones he had made to the publication as he successfully ran for mayor last fall. Continue reading...

Agency seeks to repurpose foreign aid funds to help organisations that support Trump administration policies

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GOP lawmakers raised concerns about the “anti-weaponization” fund and Trump tax settlement.

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ICE agents will stop making most traffic stops, sources told multiple news outlets on Tuesday.

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“We have no choice but to address the challenges created by these massive facilities,” New York governor Kathy Hochul said. The executive order will pause construction for one year.

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Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occu...

Representative Ro Khanna was barred from leaving for 90 minutes. Where past U.S. leaders toured the region to show support for Israel, today’s Democratic presidential aspirants are going to bolster th...

Rep. Ro Khanna Detained By Israeli Settlers During West Bank Visit

Rep. Ro Khanna detained by armed Israeli settlers in West Bank. Settlers also attack CNN, other journalists.

California lawmaker, who is weighing run for presidency, says men with with rifles blocked his group's vehicles for over an hour as he toured destroyed Palestinian village, were then backed up by sold...

<article data-history-node-id="443999" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ro-khanna-detained-israeli-settlers-during-occupied-west-bank-visit" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ro-khanna-detained-israeli-settlers-during-occupied-west-bank-visit" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Ro Khanna detained by Israeli settlers during occupied West Bank visit</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>US Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a visit this week to the occupied West Bank.</p> <p>Speaking with Reuters from a Palestinian village, Khanna said his group's van was surrounded by settlers wielding M4 rifles on Wednesday while touring a part of the southern West Bank where residents face frequent Israeli settler attacks.</p> <p>"We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it," said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the US House of Representatives.</p> <p>"And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans," Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.</p> <p>An aide to Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the US Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.</p> <p>The Israeli military said troops and police officers intervened after receiving a report of settlers blocking vehicles near Khirbet Zanuta, a small Palestinian hamlet whose residents were forcibly displaced by violent settler raids following the start of Israel's genocide on Gaza.</p> <p>"Upon their arrival, the troops dispersed the Israeli civilians and allowed the vehicles to continue on their way," the military said.</p> <p>Israel's police did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the US Embassy in Jerusalem.</p> <p><em>Reporting by Reuters&nbsp;</em></p> </div> </div> </article>

Asked if he was running for president, Khanna said: “I’m strongly considering it, and I’m more resolved to consider it after this trip.”

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is accusing the Justice Department of withholding unredacted Epstein records and delaying access to evidence that state investigators say they need.

New Mexico's top law enforcement official on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Justice of hindering the state's investigation into ​Jeffrey Epstein by withholding unredacted files on the late sex ‌offender.

New Mexico's top law enforcement official on Thursday accused the U.S. Department of Justice of hindering the state's investigation into ​Jeffrey Epstein by withholding unredacted files on the late se...

The senator’s health is shrouded in mystery after he was hospitalized. Why can’t we get a clear answer?

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