Middle East crisis live: US and Israel in talks to revive Washington trip to discuss Rafah

Israeli PM had cancelled officials’ US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire

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A gunman in military uniform opened fire on vehicles in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, wounding at least three people, including a 13 year-old boy, emergency services said.

The Israeli military said soldiers had blocked routes in the area, adjacent to t...

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Trump planning to attend the wake of slain NYPD officer

Former President Trump will attend the wake of an New York Police Department (NYPD) officer killed in the line of duty earlier this week, his campaign announced.

Officer Jonathan Diller was killed during a traffic stop Monday in Queens; he's the first NYPD officer to die on the job in more than two years. His wake is scheduled for Thursday.

“President Trump is moved by the invitation to join NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller’s family and colleagues as they deal with his s...

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Youngkin vetoes Virginia assault weapons ban, signs 2 gun control measures

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed an assault weapons ban that passed the state Legislature last month, alongside multiple other gun control bills, in a 30-bill veto session on Tuesday.

“I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that absolutely includes protecting the right of law-abiding Virginians to keep and bear arms,” Youngkin said in a statement after vetoing the bills.

The governor did...

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Youngkin vetoes Virginia assault weapons ban, signs 2 gun control measures

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) vetoed an assault weapons ban that passed the state Legislature last month, alongside multiple other gun control bills, in a 30-bill veto session on Tuesday.

“I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of Virginia, and that absolutely includes protecting the right of law-abiding Virginians to keep and bear arms,” Youngkin said in a statement after vetoing the bills.

The governor did...

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Biden’s progressive voter strategy must include a Gaza cease-fire

Young progressive voters, the backbone and the future of the Democratic Party, are at an increasing risk of turning against the party wholescale each day the war in Gaza continues. 

Foreign policy rarely tops the issues people rank when casting their votes unless something has gone horribly wrong. But this is one of those times when U.S. involvement in multiple wars abroad, especially in Gaza, is shifting more people to prioritize foreign policy in their 2024 is...

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Gun safety advocates plan human chain to honor Covenant school shooting victims

Thousands of people will form a four-mile human chain in Nashville on Wednesday to honor the anniversary of the Covenant school shooting and demonstrate their support of gun law reform.

The event’s nonprofit organizer, Voices for a Safer Tennessee, was created in the aftermath of the shooting by a group of Tennessee moms spurred to action. The group has called its work since then “a marathon."

A year ago, a gunman broke into Covenant — a private, religious school ser...

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The Supreme Court heard arguments to outlaw access to the abortion pill today — here’s what happened 

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard consolidated oral argument in two cases, the importance of which cannot be overemphasized.  

The subject of both cases — Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine — is mifepristone, a medication used as part of a two-drug regimen to terminate early-stage pregnancies.  

The ultimate issue to be resolved by the court is whether mifepris...

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