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The U.S. secretary of state's visit to Jordan comes as the Biden administration tries to pressure Hamas to accept a deal that would result in a temporary cease-fire in the war in Gaza and the release of some hostages.
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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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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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Republican leaders said they would hold additional hearings with top university administrators and potentially withhold millions of federal dollars from universities that fail to keep Jewish students safe.
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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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Nearly 300 peaceful protesters were arrested over the weekend as student-led Gaza solidarity encampments across U.S. university and college campuses face an intensifying crackdown. Democracy Now! spoke with Columbia University professors and students Monday as they were threatened with suspension but voted to continue the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, which began almost two weeks ago. "Hundreds of our students have been disciplined in the past six months on unfair premises," said Sueda Polat, a Columbia student organizer who is studying human rights. "We are willing to put a lot on the line for this cause. My right to education shouldn't come before the right to education of Gazans."
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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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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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