The U.S. accused Hamas of seizing a major shipment of humanitarian aid delivered to Gaza this week. The supplies were the first to be shipped from Jordan to the Palestinian enclave through a newly reopened border crossing authorized by Israel. President Biden pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza through […]
The Pentagon said Wednesday that a temporary pier under construction off the coast of the Gaza Strip is more than 50% complete and is on track to provide humanitarian relief in the coming days to relieve the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave. On March 8, the Defense Department announced the mission to erect the […]
Republican senators excoriated the Biden administration Tuesday for wasting time on legally dubious student loan forgiveness schemes while ignoring the mismanaged college financial aid process that has left hundreds of thousands of students in the lurch. The government uses the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, to decide how much families can pay […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea. Nearly two months after President Joe Biden gave the order, U.S. Army and Navy troops are assembling a large floating platform several miles off the Gaza coast that will be […]
Humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip will “significantly increase” over the coming days as Israel opens the port of Ashdod, about 25 miles north of the Palestinian enclave, and a new crossing into northern Gaza. Israeli officials over the weekend also said they would facilitate an increase in aid from Jordan through the Kerem Shalom […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel must still do more to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip and that he would use his current Middle East trip — his seventh to the region since the Israel–Hamas war started in October — […]
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza, a spokesman said Friday. The announcement by U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric provided the […]
The U.S. will provide Ukraine additional Patriot missiles for its air defense systems as part of a massive $6 billion additional aid package, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Friday. The missiles will be used to replenish previously supplied Patriot systems. The package also includes more munitions for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems, or NASAMS, […]
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony Blinken has determined that an Israeli army battalion committed grave human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza. But he said in a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson that he is postponing a decision on blocking aid to the unit to give Israel […]
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell took a shot at Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, accusing the former Fox News host of turning Americans against the idea of sending aid to Ukraine. “I think the demonization of Ukraine began by Tucker Carlson, who in my opinion ended up where he should have been all along, which is […]
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