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new video loaded: Funeral for Rosalynn Carter Held at Her Georgia Church transcript Back transcript Funeral for Rosalynn Carter Held at Her Georgia Church Family and friends honored the former first lady Rosalynn Carter in a funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., where she and Jimmy Carter had worshiped for decades. “She …
Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the annual United Nations climate summit in Dubai on Friday and Saturday, standing in for President Biden, who will skip the event for the first time since taking office. A spokeswoman for Ms. Harris said in a statement on Wednesday that while at the summit, known as COP28, the …
Two Republican county supervisors in Arizona were indicted Wednesday on felony charges related to their attempts to delay the certification of 2022 election results. Kris Mayes, the state attorney general, announced in a statement that Peggy Judd and Tom Crosby, two of the three supervisors in Cochise County, face charges of interference with an election …
new video loaded: Schumer Condems Bigotry Against Jews in Senate Floor Speech transcript Back transcript Schumer Condems Bigotry Against Jews in Senate Floor Speech Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader and highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress, warned young people against “unknowingly aiding and abetting” antisemitism in the name of justice. I feel compelled to speak …
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, on Wednesday warned that some liberals and young people were “unknowingly aiding and abetting” antisemitism in the name of social justice, fueling a dangerous rise in bigotry against Jews amid Israel’s war against Hamas. In a deeply personal speech from the Senate floor aimed …
A group of entrepreneurs is forming a super PAC to try to draw independent voters to Nikki Haley, in the latest sign that many opponents of former President Donald J. Trump in the business world are coalescing around Ms. Haley as their favored alternative. The super PAC, called Independents Moving the Needle, will initially focus …
In the opening minutes of a debate during Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 campaign for Senate, the Republican incumbent attacked him over “partial-birth abortion,” a phrase often weaponized by conservatives at the time to paint Democrats as somewhere between immoral and murderous. Mr. Brown, a Democrat from northeast Ohio in the House at the time, glanced …
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and top Western diplomats vowed on Wednesday to sustain support for Ukraine and its bid to join NATO despite dwindling military supplies and competing crises. Mr. Blinken’s remarks came at the tail end of a NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, where he and other Western diplomats sought to assuage …
Democrats in Congress are clashing with each other and the Biden administration over a push from the left that would attach conditions to an emergency infusion of security aid for Israel during its war with Hamas, the latest reflection of a growing rift within the party over support for the Jewish state. The debate is …
In a packed opera house on Tuesday night in Derry, N.H., Hannah Kesselring had a pressing question for Nikki Haley, one that many voters in the room appear to have been considering as Ms. Haley has climbed in the 2024 Republican presidential contest. A punchy 9-year-old decked in a red and navy blue Haley cap, …