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Washington D.C. – Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Montana’s U.S. Senator Steve Daines led 15 of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Biden administration officials urging the continued

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Jim Risch, Chair and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Bill Johnson, have introduced a bicameral and bipartisan resolution calling for accountability in Sri Lanka. The resolution urges the Gove

The administration announced on Friday that it was bypassing Congress and selling tank shells directly to Israel.

Idaho government briefs

Hanan Jarrar largely blamed Israel for killing the two-state solution because it failed to implement the 1993 Oslo Accord in which Israel and the PLO agreed to establish a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital. 

Kootenai tribes in Idaho and Montana worried about coal mining in the Elk River basin which continues to show above-normal selenium levels.

Members of the Kootenai Tribe have spent decades and more than $500 million since the 1980s to restore fish populations in North Idaho, and despite pleas to lawmakers and mining

In October 1981, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to block an arms sale to Saudi Arabia that included AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) radar planes, fuel tanks for Saudi F-15 aircraft, more than 1,000 air-to-air missiles, and up to eight tanker-refueling aircraft. Opposit

Your slice of the headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Monday, December 11, 2023.

Your slice of the headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Monday, December 11, 2023.