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But a joint statement they released hours after Mr Biden attempted to resume the assistance along with analysis offered by a pro-Israel think tank in Washington offer some significant clues. “Resuming assistance to the West Bank and Gaza without concessions from the Palestinian Authority undermines US interests,” Mr Risch and Mr McCaul wrote in the statement. “A recent Government Accountability Office report rightly calls for increased oversight of Palestinian assistance to ensure complia...

© MPR News/Getty Images/KJN Biden seen hypothetically at the wall he has never visited. President Biden is canceling projects to build a wall along the southern border using diverted defense funds and will use some funding to counter environmental damage from the walls construction. Then-President Trump had diverted billions in defense and military construction funds toward building the wall, using emergency powers after Congress refused to fully fund the project directly. A Biden administrati...

CHEYENNE — Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Representative Liz Cheney, and other Members of Congress from Montana and Idaho sent a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her to support delisting grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) and Northern Continental Divide (NCDE). In both areas, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has noted that the grizzly bear populations are at carrying capacity and are no longer e...

© U.S. Army Happy Friday and welcome to Overnight Defense. Im Ellen Mitchell, and heres your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: A report on last year’s slaying of Spc. Vanessa Guillén confirmed that she was being sexually harassed before her death at Fort Hood, Texas, but not by the man suspected of killing her, according to Army documents released Friday. Army investigators found that...

Amtrak Joe: Biden pushes for $80B injection into rail service to fight climate change John T. Bennett © Provided by Washington Examiner President Joe Biden made a pitch on Friday for his proposed $80 billion to upgrade and expand Amtrak service, saying the rail system is a key to fighting climate change and could further spur the post-pandemic economic recovery. “When I think about fighting climate change, I think about jobs and rail,” Biden said in Philadelphia. “The ex...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team is renewing the Trump administration’s support for Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly, citing the island democracy’s counter-coronavirus charity in defiance of the mainland Chinese regime.

By Brendan LaChance on April 28, 2021 (Pixabay) CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming’s United States Sen. Cynthia Lummis, Sen. John Barrasso and Rep. Liz Cheney have signed onto a letter sent to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland urging her to support de-listing grizzly bears from endangered species status in both the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Northern Continental Divide. “The facts don’t lie: The grizzly bear has recovered in significant areas in the west, including in Wyoming and the...

Romney says excluding Taiwan from World Health Assembly would 'play right into hands of the CCP' | 2021/04/28

By NICK WADHAMS AND TONY CAPACCIO | Bloomberg | Published: April 28, 2021 The Biden administration is sending a team of senior officials to the Middle East this week as the president seeks to ease allies concerns over Iranian nuclear talks and address issues involving the United Arab Emirates planned purchase of the F-35 joint strike fighter. The team of officials from the State Department, National Security Council and Defense Department will be led by NSC Middle East policy coordinator Bret...

0 shares In this handout provided by the EU Delegation in Vienna, representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel in the Austrian capital, April 15, 2021. (EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images, JTA) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden’s Iran deal inbox has been quite full lately. On March 10, 70 Democrats and 70 Republicans in the House sent the president a letter in the hopes that “any agreement or set of agreements with Iran m...