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Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to meet Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli leaders.
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Party leaders said their members would join an effort to table any attempt to remove the Republican speaker after he allowed House passage of military aid to Ukraine.
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Some Republicans who backed the aid encountered little resistance from voters, who were far more willing to embrace it — and less interested in ousting the speaker over it — than their right-wing colleagues.
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 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyIf you want to understand why Donald Trump could win in 2024, look no further than Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu. These three top Republican voices who previously condemned Trump now say they plan to vote for him again this November.
Let's start with McConnell, who on Sunday (re)asserted that he would be voting for Trump for president. McConnell's reason? "Because the voters of my party across the country have made a decision. As the Republican leader of the Senate, obviously, I'm gonna support the nominee of our party."
Keep in mind, following Trump's second impeachment trial in 2021, McConnell said that "Trump's actions preceding the [Capitol] riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty," and that "There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Representative Don Bacon accused Representative Ilhan Omar of antisemitism in suggesting some Jewish students were "pro-genocide." Democratic leaders have said little about their colleague's language.
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 Khadejeh Nikouyeh/The Charlotte Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty ImagesA police officer and three members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force were shot and killed in Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday when gunfire erupted as they were trying to serve a warrant, authorities said. Four other law enforcement officers were wounded in the shootout.
The suspect the officers were pursuing was also killed. That person was not immediately identified.
During a news conference at which Johnny Jennings, the chief of police for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, laid out the timeline of events.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Saturday as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged ships under pressure from Israel and the United States. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla brings together a "cross-section of humanity" in hundreds of community leaders from all walks of life to raise awareness of Israel's blockade of Gaza and rally support for its end. "We are determined to stop this by direct action" where international governments "have sadly failed," says one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla, the Palestinian American human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf. "This is not the end. We are pursuing this legally and politically," she says about this latest "minor setback." Arraf was part of the previous iteration of the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in which 10 participants were killed in an attack from the Israeli Navy when it raided the ships in international waters.
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