Biden signs .2 trillion funding package, averting US government shutdown | Politics News

Biden signs $1.2 trillion funding package, averting US government shutdown | Politics News

Senate passed the bill after hours of gridlock over funding for three-quarters of the government for the next six months. President Joe Biden has signed a $1.2 trillion package of spending bills after the United States Congress passed the long overdue legislation just hours earlier, ending the threat of a…

AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel | Israel War on Gaza News

AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel | Israel War on Gaza News

Washington, DC – Describing the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a genocide, progressive Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called on the United States to suspend weapons transfers to Israel. In an impassioned speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez condemned the Israeli blockade on Gaza, which…

‘Moral failure’: US House approves bill that would ban UNRWA funding | UNRWA News

‘Moral failure’: US House approves bill that would ban UNRWA funding | UNRWA News

Washington, DC – The United States House of Representatives has approved a $1.2 trillion funding bill that would ban funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) amid the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. The measure, which passed in a 286 to 134 vote on Friday, would…

US top diplomat holds talks in Israel as Netanyahu vows Rafah invasion | Israel War on Gaza News

US top diplomat holds talks in Israel as Netanyahu vows Rafah invasion | Israel War on Gaza News

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the United States’s top diplomat that Israel is determined to send troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where some 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering, and will do so without US backing if necessary. Following a meeting with visiting US Secretary of…

US sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

US sanctions Nicaragua’s attorney general over human rights concerns | News

Washington says Morales Urbina ‘exploited her office to facilitate a coordinated campaign to suppress dissent’. The United States has imposed sanctions on Nicaragua’s attorney general for what it says is her role in the government’s “unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society”. Wendy Carolina Morales Urbina, who has been…

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere | Women’s Rights

In the United States, women’s reproductive rights, gained through half a century of feminist struggle, are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs. In 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade – the landmark 1973 ruling that gave women the constitutional right to abortion. Since then, in 28 states access…

US, EU ratchet up pressure on Israel over Gaza ceasefire; UN vote planned | Israel War on Gaza News

US, EU ratchet up pressure on Israel over Gaza ceasefire; UN vote planned | Israel War on Gaza News

Security Council expected to vote on Friday on US-drafted ceasefire resolution with talks to continue in Qatar. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote as soon as Friday on a United States-drafted resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the European Union called for a “humanitarian pause”,…

Blinken: Clear consensus for immediate, sustained ceasefire in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza

Blinken: Clear consensus for immediate, sustained ceasefire in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza

NewsFeed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a ceasefire is the best way to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza. He spoke in Cairo following a meeting with Arab leaders that focused on a truce deal between Israel and Hamas as well as the release of captives….

Blinken meets with Arab officials, calls for ‘enduring end’ to Gaza crisis | Israel War on Gaza News

Blinken meets with Arab officials, calls for ‘enduring end’ to Gaza crisis | Israel War on Gaza News

US secretary of state holds talks with Egyptian president and crown prince of Saudi Arabia in latest Middle East tour. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and reiterated the call for a truce in the…