By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other top U.S. officials in Washington on Monday as the White House ramps up pressure on Israel to protect civilians in Gaza during its war with Hamas. Gantz, a political rival to Israeli Prime Minister […]
Downing Street has said there is no difference between the UK and US positions on the Gaza war following American Vice President Kamala Harris’s call for an immediate ceasefire. Britain is “entirely aligned” with Washington in wishing to see a pause in the fighting as soon as possible, Number 10 said on Monday. In some […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday is hosting a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival of Netanyahu, is sitting down with several senior Biden administration officials this week, including Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken […]
By Jeff Mason (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel on Sunday for not doing enough to ease a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to rein in its close ally while it wages war with Hamas militants. Harris, speaking in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge […]
Simon Harris has indicated a new chair of RTÉ could be appointed in the week ahead. The Minister for Further and Higher Education also described as “sensible” a proposal to put the national broadcaster back under the control of the Comptroller and Auditor General. It comes amid continuing turmoil at RTÉ, including the resignation of […]
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to be among those marking the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day Alabama law officers attacked Civil Rights demonstrators on the iconic Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The demonstrators were beaten by officers as they tried to march across Alabama on March 7, […]
Vice President Kamala Harris took to social media to praise the efforts of poll workers, amid the presidential primaries and just months ahead of the 2024 election, but her complimentary remarks quickly backfired. “Our democracy could not function without nonpartisan poll workers like Vasu and Rob whom I met in Georgia. President Biden and I […]
If in 2019 a Democratic strategist peered five years into the future and learned Joe Biden was president and his health was failing, news of Biden’s veep pick would come as sweet relief. Glamour Magazine’s 2018 “Woman of the Year,” a former California attorney general and US senator, Kamala Harris looked like the bright future […]
President Joe Biden on Thursday ripped into the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent decision on in vitro fertilization as Vice President Kamala Harris and their campaign cast blame on former President Donald Trump for rolling back abortion rights with his appointments of conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Biden condemned the […]
Wednesday marked five years since North Carolina Republican Mark Harris called for a new election after a ballot fraud scandal brought his down. Now, Harris is running for Congress again. And for the first time since Channel 9′s Joe Bruno broke the news of the fraud, Harris sat down with him for an interview. On […]
The Scoop SFA Fund, the main pro-Nikki Haley super PAC, launched a new ad on Wednesday hitting Donald Trump on immigration that will run across South Carolina through the primary. The ad, called “Donation,” homes in on Trump’s past donations to now-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2011 and 2013, contrasting his actions then with an […]
A Texas woman was shot multiple times by Harris County sheriff’s deputies while in her friend’s home earlier this month. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump likened it to the events that led to the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020. His client, 28-year-old Eboni Pouncy, was reportedly hit five times in the early hours of Feb. 3 […]