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Democratic voters are slightly more sympathetic to Palestinians amid the ongoing conflict with Israel, according to a

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Menendez The announcement comes after the decision was initially reported Tuesday. Sources with knowledge of the situation said the administration would issue waivers for both the company and CEO Matthias Warnig, an associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin The administration reportedly made the decision to avoid straining Washington’s relationship with Germany, which the natural gas pipeline is set to pass through. Reports said U.S. officials...

A group of progressive House Democrats led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) is planning to introduce a resolution aimed at blocking a $735 million arms sale to Israel, according to a letter to fellow lawmakers obtained by The Hill.

© Getty Images Seventeen Democratic attorneys general wrote to top senators on Tuesday urging them to confirm President Biden The attorneys general wrote in support of David Chipman, who spent more than two decades as an ATF special agent before joining Giffords, a gun control group formed by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) after she survived a 2011 shooting. "As the chief law and law enforcement officers in our respective states and territories, many of us regularly work with ATF...

“A proposed increase of $13 billion in defense spending is far too much given its already rapid growth at a time of relative peace. We cannot best build back better if the Pentagon’s budget is larger than it was under Donald Trump “We recognize that non-defense spending has a proposed 16% increase, versus the 1.7% increase in defense spending,” he added. “But increased spending on the Pentagon on fraud, waste, and zero accountability is still just that, and takes away from funding tha...

Last modified on Wed 16 Dec 2020 09.58 EST In a recent essay for Harper’s magazine the author Garth Greenwell wrote about his problem with creating work that is described as “relevant”. He argued that there is “something demeaning about approaching art from a predetermined angle”, and that increasingly artists are being asked if their work is timely and therefore of importance. No one knows whether Sault were asking themselves that question when they made Untitled (Blac...

Want medicare for all. they dont want green energy investment. they want a green new deal. biden is behind the curve of what democrats want. they are going for him because they think he is the guy that can beat trump and he really isnt. >> bill: did you see this story in the daily beast earlier today? top dem tank warrens party. losing immigration messaging war to trump. i dont know what you took from that piece. what i took is its rule of law on one side versus open borders on the other and tha...

Wish we were in a less political environment where we could take on major challenges like health care and like entitlements. thats not the environment you and i find ourselves in right now, but every one of us needs access to health care and health insurance. if someone has a good idea, im all ears. >> see what they announce this afternoon. okay. lets talk about something you are intimately connected with. that, of course, house oversight as well as intel, and the ongoing russia investigations. ...