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Former national security adviser John Bolton criticized President Biden for putting “enormous pressure” on Israel to not “do more” to Iran Friday, after the country launched retaliatory strikes on Israel following an attack earlier this month in Syria. Early Friday, the Israeli military struck close to a major air base and nuclear site in Iran.…

The article explains why the rules do not address the controversial issue of transgender student-athletes.

President Biden celebrated the 75th anniversary of the NATO alliance on Thursday, despite former President Trump's threats to encourage aggression towards member countries who have not fulfilled their commitments. Biden hailed NATO as “the greatest military alliance in the history of the world,” and emphasized that for the past 75 years, the “United States and our fellow Allies have chosen to come together…

Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian American doctor, said he left a meeting at the White House Tuesday evening because he was unhappy about President Biden’s handling of the war in Gaza. Ahmad, an emergency medicine doctor who worked in Gaza in January, said he attended a stakeholder meeting at the White House, which was arranged in…

The Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has selected a new chief diversity and inclusion officer at the State Department. The role had been empty for 10 months, but on Tuesday, the department revealed that Zakiya Carr Johnson will take on the position as the new chief diversity and inclusion officer (CDIO). Johnson will take over from the current acting CDIO, Conny Mayer. “American diplomacy…

President Biden called chef José Andrés to express his sadness after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from his charity group World Central Kitchen, in Gaza. “He called chef José Andrés to express that he’s heartbroken by this news of the airstrike that killed seven aid workers and to express and share…

President Biden chastised what he called an “extreme” Florida Supreme Court ruling upholding the state’s 15-week abortion ban and triggering an even more restrictive policy. “Yesterday’s extreme decision puts desperately needed medical care even further out of reach for millions of women in Florida and across the South,” Biden said Tuesday in a statement. “The…

Most Americans in a new survey said they support the Biden administration hiring more border patrol agents and immigration judges as migrant surges persist at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Associated Press-NORC Center survey, released Friday, found that the majority of the public agrees with policy ideas related to immigration and security at the southern border,…

President Biden said in a statement Thursday that he is “horrified” by a recent stabbing spree in Rockford, Ill. “[First lady Jill Biden] and I were horrified to learn of the brutal attack carried out in Rockford last night, which took the lives of four people, including one fifteen-year-old,” Biden said in the statement. “Seven…

The Biden administration has finalized new regulations for extracting oil and gas from public lands. They claim that this will reduce both wasted fuel and the release of gases that contribute to global warming from the production of these fossil fuels.