Politics

Federal health department to investigate medical schools over pro-Palestinian graduation protests

Funding is on the line for at Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Johns Hopkins, as a new federal agency opens antisemitism investigations for the first time.

To Israel’s far right, Trump’s proposals for Gaza keep sounding ‘better and better’

The call to relocate Gaza Palestinians matches proposals laid out by Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, two far-right ministers.

Contradicting Trump, Saudi Arabia says no change in its demand for Palestinian state

Trump announced in a press conference on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia was not requiring a state as a condition for peace with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip’

Meeting with Netanyahu, Trump doubles down on relocating ‘all’ Palestinians from Gaza

Darren Beattie, the former white house speechwriter who attended a conference with white supremacists, speaks at a "Symposium at the Wall" in 2019. (Screenshot)

Speechwriter fired over white nationalist ties appointed to high-level State Department role

One point of consistency amid Trump’s rapid changes: a drumbeat of federal campus antisemitism investigations

South Carolina’s Holocaust council is divided after chair cuts rabbi’s ‘political’ remarks from Auschwitz memorial broadcast

Netanyahu heads to Washington for what Trump says are ‘very big meetings’

A rabbi stands at a podium during a Holocaust memorial event

A South Carolina rabbi’s Holocaust memorial speech was pulled from public TV for being too ‘political’

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