Tara Suter

Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), called for increased global pressure on Israel to work with the U.N. In a Friday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Lazzarini referenced a Thursday order from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to Israel to...

Former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday said he is not voting for his old boss but left the door open to voting for President Biden. “I’m not there yet,” Esper said after being asked by comedian Bill Maher on his HBO show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” if he would vote for the...

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said she thinks a gag order issued in former President Trump's hush money will likely be expanded, following Trump's recent attacks on the New York judge and his daughter. “Judges typically don't protect themselves simply because they don't need the protection,” Vance, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District...

Virginia and Texas saw the most white supremacist propaganda activity in 2023, which reached record highs across the country, according to a Tuesday report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Other states that saw relatively high levels of white supremacist propaganda activity in the U.S. 2023 were California, New York, Massachusetts, Missouri, Tennessee, Michigan, Maryland and...

A report published Thursday on the situation in Haiti, which is facing intense gang violence, by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights found that sexual violence there is “severely underreported." The report said that according to the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), gangs in the Caribbean country...

Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) apparently had some choice words for fellow Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert at a recent Rotary Club meeting, according to a new report by Politico. “I've been asked about her moving across the mountains to run in the 4th Congressional District, and I have not said anything,” Buck said in...

The Pentagon said balloon debris fishermen located off the coast of Alaska last month has been in the ocean for “over a year.” “Initial inspection of the balloon debris indicates that the material has been in the ocean for well over a year,” Sue Gough, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, said in an...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is increasing its oversight of United Airlines in the wake of recent incidents, including a plane losing a tire during takeoff, the airline said Friday. Sasha Johnson, United’s vice president of corporate safety, said told employees in a memo that the "number of safety-related events in recent weeks have rightfully...

Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations’s World Food Programme (WFP), said Friday that there is an urgent need for food in Gaza amid the war occurring there. “[O]ur obstacles are many,” McCain said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Friday. “We have to be cleared at every level, the Israelis block...

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is set to marry his fiancée Mindy Noce in early August, a spokesperson for Scott told The Hill Thursday. The South Carolina Republican and Noce will marry in Scott’s home state, Nathan Brand, a spokesperson for Scott, confirmed to The Hill. This means their wedding will come shortly after the 2024...