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Washington, D.C. significant buildings on Oct. 4, 2023 (Catie Dull/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Senate advances military aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan

The measure, which would provide $95 billion in military aid, has little hope of seeing a vote in the House where hard-line Republicans oppose the measure.

1 year ago

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin (right) and Kenya's Defense Minister Aden Duale (left) listen during the National Anthem during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024.
Health

Defense Secretary Austin hospitalized with bladder issue, transfers powers to his deputy

Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer in December and continues to deal with complications from his treatment.

1 year ago

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump says he wouldn’t defend NATO allies from Russia if they’re ‘delinquent’

The Republican front-runner said that, as president, he warned NATO allies that he "would encourage" Russia "to do whatever the hell they want."

1 year ago

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., discusses next steps for the foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel on the day after the bipartisan Senate border security bill collapsed, at the Capitol in on Wednesday.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Senate GOP blocks border bill, Democrats shift focus to Israel and Ukraine aid

After four months of bipartisan talks on border security Senate Republicans backed off backing changes to the Biden administration's policies they demanded.

1 year ago

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) shakes hands with Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, at Diwan Annex, in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024.
Politics & Policy

Qatar gets ‘positive’ response from Hamas on cease-fire plan as group reiterates its broader demands

In its own statement, the militant group reiterated its demand for an end to the war, something Israel has thus far ruled out.

1 year ago

U.S. Central Command released this undated photo as part of its announcement of renewed airstrikes against Houthi targets on Saturday. (
NPR
Politics & Policy

The U.S. targets Iranian proxies for a second day in a row

The new round of U.S. strikes is far more extensive and deadly than those that have been launched since October.

1 year ago

President Biden Attends National Prayer Breakfast On Capitol Hill
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden issues order targeting Israeli settlers who attack West Bank Palestinians

President Biden's executive order, issued Thursday, names four people and will lay the groundwork for financial sanctions against Israeli settlers who carry out violent assaul

1 year ago

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday he ''should have told the president about'' his cancer diagnosis.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Defense Secretary Austin says he didn’t handle news of hospitalization ‘right’

The remarks cap a tumultuous few weeks for Austin after it emerged that he was hospitalized on New Year's Day and that no one knew for days that he had undergone surgery for p

1 year ago

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

U.S. blames group of Iran-backed militias for deadly drone attack in Jordan as it weighs reprisals

The Sunday drone attack on a military base in Jordan killed the three troops and injured at least 40 others.

1 year ago

Battleship New Jersey
Community

Battleship New Jersey headed to drydock, but still needs money to fund ‘once in a generation’ repairs

The storied ship has been on the waterfront for three decades. It’s due for about $10 million of work before returning to host visitors in Camden.

1 year ago

William Rivers
Community
6abc

Willingboro, N.J. man among 3 Army reservists killed in drone attack on U.S. base in Jordan

Sgt. William Rivers enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2011 as an Interior Electrician.

1 year ago

President Joe Biden speaks at St. John Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024.
Politics & Policy

3 US troops are killed and 25 injured in drone strike by Iran-backed militia in Jordan, U.S. says

They were the first U.S. fatalities in months of attacks on American forces across the Middle East by Iranian-backed militias amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

1 year ago

Traffic police officers block off a road near the crash site of the Russian Ilyushin Il-76 military transport plane outside the village of Yablonovo in Russia's Belgorod region on Wednesday. Stringer/Reuters
NPR
Politics & Policy

Russia claims Ukraine shot down a military plane carrying Ukrainian POWs, killing 74

It said 65 Ukrainian POWs were on board, headed for a prisoner swap.

1 year ago

Israeli soldiers travel on an army armored personnel carrier (APC) near the Israeli-Gaza border as smoke rises to the sky in the Gaza Strip, seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Community

Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpasses 25,000 while Israel announces the death of another hostage

The level of death, destruction and displacement from the war is without precedent in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

1 year ago

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. Israel and Hamas have been at war for 100 days. The war already is the longest and deadliest between Israel and the Palestinians since Israel’s establishment in 1948, and the fighting shows no signs of ending.
NPR
Politics & Policy

The catastrophe in Gaza after 100 days of Israel-Hamas war, by the numbers

Nearly 24,000 Palestinians have been killed since the conflict began on Oct. 7, a staggering toll.

1 year ago

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