Backers project, based on Forbes’ billionaires list, that the tax would raise $4.4 trillion over ten years for childcare, housing and a $3,000 per person check to many Americans.

Resolution aims to constrain Trump’s war capabilities, but faces uphill battle with veto likely if passed by Congress.

Only Congress can declare war.

Washington, D.C. – The Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) strongly condemns the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the dangerous pursuit of a war of regime change. We mourn the lives a...

Although the United States and ally Israel have a decisive military advantage over Iranian forces, there are ways for Tehran to make any attack painful, officials said.

Boys and girls are arrested to strike the future before the present.

WASHINGTON, DC—Congressman André Carson (IN-07) has reintroduced the Justice for Shireen Act, requiring an independent investigation and report to Congress on the killing of American-Palestinian journ...

We are devastated, outraged, and profoundly alarmed by the escalating state killings, violent kidnappings, and the horrific response to those peacefully calling out injustice in Minneapolis and around...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC — January 21, 2026 — Israeli authorities demolished the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA ) in occupied ...

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

Dorothy Day Catholic Worker participated in the Global Day of Action for Palestine on September 18 in Washington, D.C. and the event launching the Complicit Corporations Campaign

International human-rights advocates, legal experts and drug policy reformers are sounding alarms after a U.S. military strike destroyed a small boat off the Venezuelan coast last week, killing those ...

Far-right Rep. Lauren Boeberg added an amendment to the Pentagon budget that targets the BDS boycott movement against Israel.

"The time is long overdue for Congress to use the leverage we have—tens of billions in arms and military aid—to demand that Israel end these atrocities," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Hassan El-Tayyeb of the Friends Committee on National Legislation returns with an update on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the growing movement to end U.S.

As the UN fails to resolve conflicts around the world, its key peacemaking principle of multilateralism seems to have lost its legitimacy.

'The U.S. must put pressure on Israel to end the blockade, reject the militarization of aid distribution and demand an immediate ceasefire,' writes an L.A. Times reader.

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, demand an end to Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian health workers in Gaza and the West Bank. Among them are doctors, nurses, and other…

What’s happening in Gaza? Since March 2, 2025, the Israeli government has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, driving more than 2 million people into a deepening famine. This comes...

The measure by Democratic lawmaker Tim Kaine comes as foreign policy hawks call on US to join Israel in attacking Iran.

A Democratic senator introduced legislation on Monday to prevent U.S. President Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without Congress's authorization, as an escalating battle between Israel and Iran raised fears of broader conflict.

What’s happening in Gaza? Since March 2, 2025, the Israeli government has blocked almost all humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, driving more than 2 million people into a deepening famine. This comes...

The Trump administration announced a truce with the Houthi rebels on May 6, but this was after the United States had already bombed critical infrastructure for importing food and fuel.