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Biden officials meet with Jewish leaders to discuss rise in antisemitism

WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials on Monday met with top Jewish leaders at the White House to discuss the rise in antisemitism, according to a meeting participant. Amy Spitalnick, chief executive of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, confirmed to NBC News that she joined a meeting that included White House coordinator for the Middle East […]

Biden to meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy as U.S. funding for war runs out

Biden to meet with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy as U.S. funding for war runs out – CBS News Watch CBS News President Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Washington, D.C., Tuesday as the White House continues to press Congress to pass additional funding to aid Ukraine’s war against Russia. CBS News senior White House […]

UN Appeals for $46 Billion to Meet Humanitarian Needs in 2024

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations on Monday appealed for $46 billion in funding for 2024 to help millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the globe, including in the occupied Palestinian territories, Sudan and Ukraine. In its Global Humanitarian Overview for 2024, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said […]

Florida LGBTQ Teens Meet At GLSEN Conference

Most prominently, there was the passage in March last year of the Parental Rights in Education Act, known widely to critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which restricted “classroom instruction … on sexual orientation or gender identity” for children up to the third grade and discussions of those subjects “in a manner that is […]

Meet the woman steering Biden’s bipartisan winning streak on Capitol Hill

Washington CNN  —  The Biden administration managed to rack up a long list of major legislative wins in its first two years despite facing one of the most closely-divided Congresses in history.From bipartisan action on infrastructure, gun safety and same-sex marriage to party-line bills tackling climate change and expanding health care coverage, it’s a record […]