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The secretary of state is testifying publicly to Congress for the first time since the war began, as the regional conflict worsens and lawmakers' patience runs thin.
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The top Senate Republican said he had been assured that the acting attorney general would make a ‘very definitive, very clear' statement on the fund at a House hearing.
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Israeli drones have killed at least eight people in Lebanon despite an announcement Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump that both Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop fighting. Trump's intervention came as Israel threatened new strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, leading Iran to suspend indirect negotiations with the U.S. to protest Israel's expanding military offensive in Lebanon. Since March 2, Israel has killed more than 3,400 people in Lebanon while seizing large swaths of the country and displacing about one-fifth of the population.
Lebanon is "a weak state, it doesn't have a lot of leverage, and a lot of people are concerned," says Associated Press reporter Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut. "They sort of feel beholden to the regional and global powers on their fate."
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(First column, 9th story, link)
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A Mellon heir transferred the adjacent Connecticut properties, covering about 300 acres, at no cost to Children's Health Defense last year.
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The deep-blue state's primary elections will show how angry voters are at the status quo.
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A month after withdrawing from the state's Senate race, Gov. Janet Mills suggested she remained an option after the likely Democratic nominee, Graham Platner, faced a new scandal.
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The state now has just four congressional districts considered safe for Republicans, and four seen as competitive. The rest of its 52 members of Congress are all but certain to be Democrats.
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An estimated 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, are continuing a hunger and labor strike to demand their freedom. Amid ongoing protests, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill has deployed state police, who erected a barricade around the facility and have reportedly brutalized activists. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has also imposed a nightly curfew around Delaney Hall until further notice.
Local investigative journalist Bob Hennelly joins Democracy Now! to talk about the ongoing hunger and labor strike, launched on May 22, and its historical implications in Newark and the rest of the country. In letters at the outset of their strike detailing the conditions in the ICE jail, detainees have "written something that I think historians will say is equivalent to the Declaration of Independence," says Hennelly, "because they so vividly describe the way they've been deprived of all the basic human rights that we've come to associate with this nation."
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Republican leaders in the state have asked the justices to clear the way for a congressional map that a lower court found discriminated against Black voters.
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