New York Governor Kathy Hochul is terrible. No, she isn’t a racist, but what she said about black kids certainly sounds so. It’s not vicious, certainly, nothing you’d hear at a Klan rally. But it’s the racism that leeches out of white liberals, who think they’re helping these communities but are keeping them in the wilderness for another generation. Only they can help these people–it’s that type of dialogue.  Hochul stepped on this landmine on Monday when she said that black...

There were further warning signs for Donald Trump in the Indiana GOP primary as Nikki Haley received more than 20 percent of the vote despite dropping out of the race two months ago. Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican candidate, easily won the race on Tuesday with 78.3 percent of the vote, continuing his dominance overall in the GOP primary, but the former South Carolina governor still received 21.7 percent in Indiana, which amounted to more than 128,000...

Republican lawmakers incensed over antisemitism on college campuses are now directing their wrath at elementary and high school administrators. School officials from California, New York and Maryland are set to testify before a House Education and the Workforce subcommittee on Wednesday to address what conservatives describe as a streak of hateful rhetoric in K-12 schools that’s intensified during the Israel-Gaza conflict. The magnitude of the campus protests, the myriad ways...

Pro-Hamas protesters show who they are. Most protesters, no matter how deep their disaffection from this country, at least try to hide their anti-Americanism. That’s not true of the pro-Hamas agitators, who can’t be bothered. Such is their hatred of America — and its symbols, history, and heroes — that they casually engage in profoundly unpatriotic acts of desecration. In New York City on Monday, on their way to disrupt the Met Gala, they vandalized a World War I memorial in...

The Biden administration confirms reports that it held up a shipment last week of 2,000 and 500-pound bombs that it fears Israel might use in a major ground operation in Rafah. This is the first time since October 7 that the US has held up a weapons shipment earmarked for Israel. Washington adamantly opposes a major offensive in the southern city of Gaza, convinced that there is no way for Israel to conduct one in a manner that would ensure the safety of the over million Palestinians...

The Biden administration paused the supply of thousands of large bombs to Israel last week in opposition to apparent moves by the Israelis to invade the Gaza city of Rafah, US officials have confirmed. The US president, Joe Biden, has been trying to head off a full-scale assault by Israel against the southern city, where more than a million displaced Palestinian have sought refuge from combat elsewhere in Gaza. The highly significant move comes amid mounting...

The U.S. withheld certain bombs from Israel to prevent their use in an attack on Hamas battalions in the town of Rafah, according to multiple news reports Tuesday evening. The news, ironically, came on Israel’s Holocaust memorial day, hours after President Joe Biden told Jews: “Never again.” The reports confirmed stories that first appeared in Axios earlier in the week. The White House, when asked on Monday and Tuesday, refused to confirm or deny withholding weapons from Israel...

The US last week paused a bomb shipment for Israel over concerns it was going ahead with a major ground operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a senior US administration official said. The shipment consisted of 1,800 2,000lb (907kg) bombs and 1,700 500lb bombs, the official told the BBC. Israel has not "fully addressed" US concerns over humanitarian needs of civilians in Rafah, the official said. An Israeli military official appeared to play down the US move.  

President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on the city of Rafah, administration officials said on Tuesday night, a sign of the growing rift between the United States and Israel over the conduct of the war. The president withheld 1,800 2,000-pound bombs and 1,700 500-pound bombs that he feared could be dropped on Rafah, where more than one million Gazans have taken refuge, the officials said. The...

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene put her campaign to oust Speaker Mike Johnson on an indefinite pause Tuesday, saying she was no longer committed to forcing a vote on vacating the speaker’s office this week. After meeting with Johnson for the second time in as many days, Greene and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said they would wait to hear how the embattled speaker responds to four “suggestions” they made on policy changes they want to see enacted. “Right now, the ball is in Mike Johnson’...