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Flyers indicate protesters came from as far as Florida, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin to protest war and US aid to IsraelThousands of marchers descended on Washington DC on Saturday to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to protest US aid to Israel, more than three months into an Israeli offensive against Hamas that is killing 250 Palestinians per day, according to the...

Kerry’s office announced the news on Saturday after he had informed his staff and spoken with Biden earlier in the weekJohn Kerry, the United States’ special climate envoy and former secretary of state and presidential contender, plans to leave the Biden administration later this winter and switch to helping Joe Biden campaign to be re-elected to the White House, Kerry’s office said.Kerry informed his...

In today’s newsletter: With the 2024 election likely to hinge on just thousands of votes in swing states, the president needs every vote he can get• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. No Republican presidential candidate has received more than 13% of the votes of Black Americans since the civil rights era. In the race against probable nominee Donald Trump,...

Hospital stay that Joe Biden did not know about was for prostate cancer surgery and to treat urinary tract infection, doctors sayJoe Biden did not learn that his defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, had prostate cancer until Tuesday, the White House has said, minutes after it was disclosed to the public along with news of an infection that had also been kept under wraps.Austin prompted...

Suit is aimed at stopping a law allowing police to detain people suspected of crossing the US border without authorizationThe US Department of Justice has sued Texas and its Republican governor, Greg Abbott, to block a new and controversial state immigration law from going into effect.After threatening the state with legal action after last year’s passage of SB4, a new Texas law which allows...

Over 300,000 people were on track to cross as Biden makes urgent efforts to curb migrant flows that have become political liabilityMore than 300,000 people were on track to cross the US-Mexico border in December without authorization and are being processed by American immigration officials, a tally that sets the latest monthly record, according to government figures obtained by CBS.The number of crossings, averaging...

On Saturday, Kaine joined chorus of Democrats criticizing Biden for going around Congress and demanded an explanationVirginia senator Tim Kaine has added his voice to a rising chorus within the Democratic party questioning the Biden administration’s legislatively unconstrained transfer of US munitions to Israel.In a news release on Saturday, the Democratic senator – a member of the Senate armed services committee – said weapons...

Antony Blinken tells Congress he made second emergency determination covering $147.5m sale for equipmentFor the second time this month the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas in Gaza under increasing international criticism.The state department said on Friday that the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, had told Congress that...