Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reversed his decision to cancel a top-level delegation to Washington. The reversal means the U.S. and Israel will continue their face-off over Israel's planned military invasion to remove the last four Hamas battalions from the Gazan stronghold in Rafah. After the U.S. refused to veto Monday's U.N. Security Council Gaza resolution‚ Netanyahu canceled a planned visit to Washington of two war cabinet officials. It was a way to let Hamas...

A growing chorus of Democrats say promising to protect Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) from a budding conservative coup could be their best chance to secure military aid for Kyiv‚ which has been stalled on Capitol Hill for months.  Johnson left Washington last week vowing to take up the explosive issue of foreign aid when lawmakers return in mid-April from a long holiday recess.  But hard-line conservatives in the GOP conference are firmly opposed to sending billions of...

A bipartisan group of legal experts is sounding an alarm about presidential power this election season. They're pushing Congress to update a cluster of laws known as the Insurrection Act and limit how the White House can deploy troops on American soil‚ in case a future president takes advantage of that sweeping power. "It's really up to the president to decide when to use the armed forces as a domestic police force‚" said Elizabeth Goitein‚ senior director of the Liberty &; National...

President Joe Biden is hoping the star power of his Democratic predecessors‚ former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton‚ will shine a light on his campaign against another former president‚ Donald Trump‚ during a high-profile New York City fundraiser. But although his last State of the Union before November’s general election addressed concerns about his age‚ his campaign is under pressure to make sure Biden is not overshadowed‚ particularly...

President Joe Biden will join former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama on stage for a chat at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday night‚ in what will be the most lucrative political fundraising event in American history. In total‚ the event will raise more than $25 million‚ per the Biden-Harris campaign. For context: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump raised $20 million in all of February‚ per his campaign finance filings. More than 5‚000...

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