The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than 1 billion dollars (£794 million) in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said on Tuesday. It is the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, three congressional aides said Tuesday. It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 […]
All the details in our Health Safety stories come from publicly available Final Orders, Consent Orders, Orders of Suspension and other documents from the Virginia Department of Health Professionals. For more information, see the Editor’s note below the story. WAYNESBORO – A resident of the Waynesboro Manor assisted living community was uncomfortable. He’d had a […]
The German far-right AfD party’s top candidate for the European elections, Maximilian Krah, announced on Wednesday that he will continue leading the party’s campaign despite the arrest of an aide on allegations of spying for China. Krah told journalists in Berlin following a 20 minute crisis meeting with AfD party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers on Saturday in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight. Zelenskyy dismissed top aide Serhiy Shefir from his post of first assistant, where he had served since 2019. The Ukrainian president also let go three advisers, and two […]
Gov. Ned Lamont and Connecticut’s largest health care workers union announced a tentative three-year contract this week that would boost minimum wages for home health aides by 26% to $23 per hour by the 2025-26 fiscal year. But the package, which also would provide longevity bonuses, expand paid time off and reduce health insurance costs […]
WASHINGTON — Top advisers to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump have engaged in behind-the-scenes conversations for months that have included efforts to secure an endorsement of the former president by McConnell, sources involved in those discussions said. The conversations, first reported by The New York Times, have been held between […]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A growing chorus of top advisers to Donald Trump is urging him to fixate less on personal grievances and instead focus on hitting President Joe Biden and unifying the Republican Party. The attempt to turn to broader themes comes as the campaign looks ahead to Super Tuesday and the general election, according […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced a new series of arrests and indictments Thursday targeting Russian businessmen and their middlemen in five separate federal cases, pledging that the U.S. would keep up its financial pressure on Moscow as the Ukraine war enters its third grueling year. The action was timed to coincide with the […]
WASHINGTON — The examination of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified material is officially closed as a legal matter, but the political battle is just beginning. At the center of the fight: the contents of special counsel Robert Hur’s five-hour interview with the president. Biden’s aides anticipate a lengthy partisan clash over the transcript, and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday sought to downplay sharp criticism levied against Israel by President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has conducted Israel’s four-month-old war aimed at rooting out Hamas militants from Gaza. Biden, speaking to reporters Thursday evening, called Israel’s military […]
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Several current and former officials working for Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration and the state’s law enforcement agency could be questioned about a behind-the-scenes fight to keep the governor’s travel records from being turned over to The Washington Post. Court records in a lawsuit filed by the Post against the Florida Department of […]