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Netanyahu rival offers to help quell mutiny for Hamas hostage deal

A top rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to back the beleaguered leader in the event that his government begins to collapse over a hard-right mutiny against a hostage deal with Hamas. “So a hostage deal is doable. It is a difficult deal. This is a deal we might not like, but […]

McConnell calls on Congress to give House-passed TikTok bill ‘urgent attention’

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed his support on Monday for a House-passed bill to push the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest or face being banned in the United States, although the path forward is still unclear in the upper chamber.  “This is a matter that deserves Congress’s urgent attention. And I’ll support […]

Alabama’s crackdown on vaping clouded by smoke over claims it helps ‘Big Tobacco’

Alabama lawmakers are reportedly considering legislation in their final days of the spring session to crack down on underage vaping. The bill received unanimous support in the Alabama House, but it faces an uphill battle in the Alabama Senate as the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association have expressed doubts that the bill […]

Mike Pence slams Trump’s states’ rights abortion stance

Former Vice President Mike Pence sharply criticized former President Donald Trump for saying that abortion policy should be left to states and declining to back a national abortion restriction. “President Trump’s retreat on the Right to Life is a slap in the face to the millions of pro-life Americans who voted for him in 2016 […]

Trump classified documents judge sets hearing over co-defendants’ bid to toss indictment

A Florida federal judge presiding over the criminal classified documents case of former President Donald Trump set a hearing for his two co-defendants’ efforts to toss out their indictments next week. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon called on Monday for a nonevidentiary hearing at 10 a.m. on April 19 over separate motions from Mar-a-Lago property […]