Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden declared Saturday that the Equality Act would be his top legislative priority, an effort to enshrine LGBTQ protections into the nation’s labor and civil rights laws.
A judge issued an order Friday to keep Missouri’s only abortion clinic operating over the objections of state health officials, delivering abortion-rights advocates a courtroom victory after a string of setbacks in legislatures around the U.S.
Just weeks after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a renewed ‘pressure campaign’ targeting Iran’s energy sector, America’s top diplomat said Sunday the Trump administration is willing to talk with Iran ‘with no preconditions’ — but he added that debilitating sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy will remain in effect.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that his Shi’ite organization has enough precision missiles to hit all the targets it has marked throughout the State of Israel.
The rockets fired at Mount Hermon on Saturday are an indication as to what Iran is trying to push Syria to become: a testing ground for experiments in the battle against Israel and the United States, with the help of the pro-Iranian militias it has established there.
A Saudi-hosted Islamic summit on Saturday threw its support behind Palestinians ahead of a US-led peace plan Arab leaders suspect to be skewed in favor of Israel, as Muslim states rallied around Saudi Arabia over tensions with Iran.
US stocks fell sharply on Friday after the Trump administration threatened tariffs on all imports from Mexico if the country did not do more to reduce illegal crossings at the southern US border. China’s confirmation that it has planned out how to restrict America’s supply of critical rare-earth metals, and a decline in Chinese manufacturing in May, also weighed on markets.
The UN atomic watchdog said Friday Iran continues to stay within the limitations set by the nuclear deal reached in 2015 with major powers, though its stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water are growing.
US President Donald Trump on Sunday told Syria and Russia to stop ‘bombing the hell’ out of Syria’s last jihadist stronghold Idlib.
Syrian state media reported that Israel attacked the T-4 airbase near the northern city of Homs just after midnight Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding two others. A watchdog group said 5 people were killed.
Clashes broke out at the Temple Mount on Sunday between Palestinian worshipers and Israeli security forces after some 120 Jews had been allowed to enter the compound as part of Jerusalem Day celebrations.
Fewer and fewer Americans are getting divorced, with the rates falling 18% between 2008 and 2016.