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White House insists Israel is getting ‘everything they need’ after Biden halts arms shipment

People block a road as they try to stop the trucks, carrying humanitarian aid, to enter in the Gaza Strip in an area near the Kerem Shalom border crossing between Israel and Gaza, in southern Israel, in Kerem Shalom, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

The White House on Thursday insisted that Israel will get everything it needs to defend itself against Hamas even after President Biden paused an arms shipment to prevent civilian casualties in the planned assault on the city of Rafah in Gaza.

Joint Chiefs head eyes tough choices in unsettled threat environment: ”I might p— some people off’

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr. testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense budget hearing Fiscal Year 2025 on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

The U.S. faces an “incredibly complex” threat environment around the world and a remarkably fast technological revolution at home, which demands a tougher, unapologetic approach to identifying, buying and fielding the capabilities the American military will need, said Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr. testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense budget hearing Fiscal Year 2025 on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Joint Chiefs head eyes tough choices in unsettled threat environment: ”I might p— some people off’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Stormy Daniels, center, exits the courthouse at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Porn actor Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, took the stand mid-morning Tuesday and testified about her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006, among other things. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Defense portrays Stormy Daniels as a money-hungry author of sex stories at Trump trial

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The Manor House at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt., is seen on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The college's Board of Trustees announced Tuesday, April 9, that the school is closing at the end of the semester after years of declining enrollment and financial struggles. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke) ** FILE **

Billions in federal COVID money can’t save rural private colleges from shutting down

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives as the Senate holds a procedural vote on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Some Democrats break with Biden over withholding weapons to Israel

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after she tried and failed to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson says he holds no grudge against MTG over vacate move

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives as the Senate holds a procedural vote on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Some Democrats break with Biden over withholding weapons to Israel

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined by Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after she tried and failed to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, her long-shot effort swiftly and resoundingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans tired of the political chaos, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson says he holds no grudge against MTG over vacate move

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

A person collects items from a tent as Denver Parks Department rangers string police tape during a city-sponsored sweep of an encampment overlooking the city skyline on Diamond Hill on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, in Denver. The sweep was just one of several staged in various locations across the Mile High City. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Illegal immigrants in Denver demand ‘culturally appropriate’ food, free lawyers at tent city

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a press conference marking his second year in office at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, May 9, 2024. (Song Kyung-seok/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-Trump official’s blunt statements on alliance rattle South Korea

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

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Christian singer Sean Feucht leads pro-Israel rally at USC on heels of Columbia firestorm

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Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Republican, speaks at a press conference about K-12 antisemitism with Jewish students and parents on May 8, 2024, by Parents Defending Education in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of Parents Defending Education)

Not just colleges: Lawmakers call for heads to roll at K-12 schools beset by antisemitism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

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Foreign aid package should be celebrated as rare legislative win

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In this image taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on May 28, 2022, a new Zircon hypersonic cruise missile is launched by the frigate named "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov" of the Russian navy from the Barents Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, sent a frigate off to the Atlantic Ocean armed with hypersonic Zircon cruise missiles. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

U.S. hypersonic defenses ‘inadequate,’ Pentagon official says

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A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

House panel seeks release of COVID-19 origin secrets

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

America's bad deal for Israel to end war with Hamas illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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In this file photo, immigrant rights supporters hold giant letters reading "Dream Act" as they demonstrate in favor of Congress passing a 'Clean Dream Act' that will prevent the deportation of young immigrants known as Dreamers working and studying in the U.S.,Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Miami. A decade after President Obama announced the program, DACA recipients are still in legal limbo, Congress remains gridlocked and the border faces unprecedented chaos. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Heroes and villains of illegal immigration on display at Senate ‘Dreamer’ hearing

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., joined at left by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, talk to reporters about their intention to require American citizenship to vote in national elections, as they introduce the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Speaker Johnson says Biden’s threats to pause arms shipments to Israel are ‘100% political’

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Senator Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks outside Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in New York. Scott attended former President Donald Trump's criminal trial Thursday. (AP Photo/Joseph Frederick)

Sen. Rick Scott calls Biden ‘pro-Hamas’ for pausing weapons to Israel

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Stormy Daniels, center, exits the courthouse at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Porn actor Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, took the stand mid-morning Tuesday and testified about her alleged sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump in 2006, among other things. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Defense portrays Stormy Daniels as a money-hungry author of sex stories at Trump trial

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives as the Senate holds a procedural vote on a package of wartime funding for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Some Democrats break with Biden over withholding weapons to Israel

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Not just colleges: Lawmakers call for heads to roll at K-12 schools beset by antisemitism

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Catholic school in North Carolina has right to refuse teacher in same-sex marriage, judges rule

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Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, center, listens during a bill hearing in Maryland, Jan. 23, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. Alsobrooks, who could make history as Maryland's first Black U.S. senator, is running in the Democratic primary against U.S. Rep David Trone. Republicans hoping to pick up an open U.S. Senate seat in deep-blue Maryland have the most competitive candidate they’ve had in decades in former Gov. Larry Hogan. (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

Alsobrooks closing gap with Trone as Maryland Senate Democratic primary looms: Poll

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Biden insists to skeptical voters that he’s turned the economy around

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RFK Jr. says he’ll eat more brain worms and still win debate with Biden, Trump

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D.C. police clear George Washington University of anti-Israel protesters, averting Hill showdown

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New York-area flight attendants charged with smuggling millions in drug money to Dominican Republic

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Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton rip Supreme Court on abortion, Trump immunity

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