Schumer looks to expedite $95 billion Israel, Ukraine aid package through Senate
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is looking to quickly pass a $95 billion package with aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan roughly six months after President Biden made his request for additional aid in October 2023. “Now it’s the Senate’s turn, and the finish line is now in sight,” Schumer said in a statement Read More
At a turning point? Columbia arrests and anti-Jewish harassment shut down campus
There were only remote classes at Columbia University on Monday as protests, clashes and arrests rendered the campus a cauldron of tension and fear. A surge in antisemitism, attacks and harassment has made life extremely uncomfortable for Jewish students at colleges across the country, and Columbia has become ground zero after police arrested more than Read More
Top Morning News: Kejriwal administered insulin in Tihar; govt employee shot dead by terrorists in Rajouri, and more
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been administered a ‘low dose’ of insulin after his blood sugar level spiked
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal administered insulin in Tihar jail after spike in sugar level, AAP confirms
The Delhi chief minister was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the Delhi government’s now-scrapped excise policy
Lok Sabha Elections 2024: BJP’s incumbent MP Mahesh Sharma to face SP, BSP candidates in Gautam Buddha Nagar in Phase 2
The Gautam Buddha Nagar constituency will go to polls in the second phase on April 26 along with Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Mathura and Bulandshahr seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Jammu and Kashmir: Govt employee shot dead by terrorists in Rajouri
Mohammad Raziq was shot after leaving a mosque in his village of Kunda Top, located under the Thanamandi police station area
Texas inmates are being ‘cooked to death’ in extreme heat, complaint alleges
With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.
Texas congressman’s office vandalized with red liquid spelling ‘Free Gaza’
Rep. John Carter, R-Texas said “unhinged anti-Israel activists” vandalized his Georgetown office, posting pictures of the display on social media just days after he voted in favor of providing $26 billion in aid to Israel. On Monday morning, Carter posted an image of the door to his Georgetown, Texas office, splattered with red liquid that Read More
Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t have to provide trans patient records to Texas under new settlement
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suspected the hospital was helping Texas kids access puberty blockers or hormone treatments that are outlawed for juveniles.
The US is expected to block military aid to an Israeli army unit. What is the Leahy law?
Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce as soon as Monday that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago. The move would mark the first time in the decades-long partnership between Read More