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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected the premise of a Palestinian state and promised that Israel will take over the entire region it currently occupies, “from the river to the sea,” according to an English translation on the Israeli news channel i24NEWS.

A convicted felon with alleged neo-Nazi ties has been unanimously cleared to remain on the GOP ballot in North Carolina, per the state’s Board of Elections.

Police officials “demonstrated no urgency” in their response to the deadly elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the response that did happen was plagued by “cascading failures,” according to a scathing Department of Justice report released Thursday.

Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Alina Habba isn’t impressing anyone during the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial—least of all Judge Lewis Kaplan, who has become increasingly fed up with the showy attorney and the rest of Trump’s team, regularly glowering and crossing his arms while complaining about their conduct benchside.

Donald Trump’s legal strategy in his defamation trial apparently hinges on reading mean tweets aloud in the courtroom.

Donald Trump appeared to admit Thursday that some of his actions “cross the line” of legality, but claimed he should be shielded from repercussions because of presidential immunity.

For this month’s edition of The Inside Story, TNR editor Michael Tomasky spoke with Noah Bookbinder, president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, the nonprofit group behind the effort to use Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. The section bars people from holding public office if they have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the United States.

Donald Trump’s hands didn’t look too good on Wednesday, leading to a flurry of theories about the current state of the GOP front-runner’s mental and physical health.

Florida state Republicans have advanced a bill that would ban schools and government buildings from displaying Pride flags, Black Lives Matter flags, and the Palestinian flag.

That Fox News would lie and distort the truth about what’s happening on the southern border of the United States is, by now, no surprise. What’s increasingly dismaying is the behavior of the rest of the mainstream U.S. media, which has followed suit, twisting the story and leaving out essential truths. The New York Times, National Public Radio, and CNN may not be as malicious as Fox, but their failures still amount to media malpractice—and leave your average American with a fearful and misleadingly alarmist view. Читать дальше...

Now that Roe v. Wade is history, a coalition of anti-abortion groups are eagerly returning to a long-standing fight: to require that any U.S. funding for public health further their goals of prohibiting abortion. These groups want Republicans to block reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. In a letter to Republican leadership in the House and Senate this past fall, they alleged that the Biden administration was using the two-decades-old HIV/AIDS initiative... Читать дальше...

Hardly a month passes in the United States, it sometimes seems, that some benighted politician doesn’t insist we should be teaching “both sides” of the Holocaust. Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise us, for it is the logical conclusion of the current panic over “wokeness.” An increasing number of conservatives and so-called moderates wish to evacuate history of its moral center and neuter its capacity to speak about racism. And if you don’t believe we should teach about slavery or Jim Crow, it’s just a hop... Читать дальше...

So far as poetry can be regarded altogether dispassionately, so far as it is an external object for examination, it is dead poetry and not worth examining; further, so far as a critic has made himself dispassionate about it, so far as he has repressed sympathy in favor of curiosity, he has made himself incapable of examining it.

One prominent legal expert is sounding the alarm bells over impending damage in Donald Trump’s upcoming criminal trials, likening Trump’s behavior on the stand and his relentless bullying of judges and court staff to that of a mob boss.

A Republican representative on Wednesday made a shocking confession: “We want family separation.”