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ICE ends 30-day death reporting rule as detainee deaths reach 20-year high - report

This change in policy comes amid concerns about the quality of medical care provided in ICE facilities after 18 deaths were reported in the first five months of 2026.

Protesters opposing mass deportations by ICE hold signs during a protest held at the Cassidy Gate at Fort Bliss, the U.S. Army base where a large new ICE detention facility is being built, in El Paso, Texas, US, August 17, 2025.
(Illustrative) Former US President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to Vernon Electric Cooperative in Westby, Wisconsin, US, September 5, 2024.

NGOs, committee memo disputes House claims Biden admin directly funded judicial reform

 : Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 16, 2025 in Washington, DC.

FBI subpoenaed Kash Patel and Susie Wiles phone records during Trump probe

 The logo for the Democratic National Convention is displayed on the scoreboard at the United Center during a media walkthrough in Chicago, Jan. 18, 2024.

The Democrats need a nominee with a backbone on Israel issues - editorial


Muslim advocacy groups may have moved the needle in the US election - analysis

CAIR, the largest Muslim advocacy group in the US, declined to endorse either of the major candidates, while Emgage endorsed Harris despite ‘strong disagreement’ with her Israel policy

US President Joe Biden greets Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at a dinner in Washington, last month. The administration is faced with the critical dilemma of whether to join Israel in retaliating against Iran, says the writer.

Detroit Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib gets easily reelected

Tlaib has sharply criticized the Biden administration's support of and arming of Israel in its war with Hamas in Gaza following the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023 attack.

 FTX Group CEO John J. Ray III listens while U.S. Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) speaks, at a U.S. House Financial Services Committee hearing investigating the collapse of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S.

Biden receives hundreds of reports that US weapons caused 'unnecessary harm' in Gaza - report

A US State Department spokesperson said that it is “reasonable” to assess that Israel may have violated international law but that reaching such a conclusion is “incredibly difficult.”

 U.S. President Joe Biden, flanked by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, makes a statement to the news media ahead of a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2023.

Through the looking glass, Israel is on the right side, the US in the wrong - opinion

Israel’s war is America’s war. The US should be aiding Israel without condition or reservation. And if there are conditions and reservations, they should be expressed behind closed doors. 

A man opens a store adorned with the flags of Israel and the United States in the Florentin neighbourhood of Tel Aviv, Israel, May 12, 2024

Trump says he needed 'the kind of generals that Hitler had'

Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelley said that he believes Trump falls into the "general defenition" of a facist.

 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL nominee and former US president Donald Trump attends a rally .

Bibi was right: How Israel’s recent military successes boost his leadership – editorial

Israel's recent military successes have boosted Netanyahu's popularity, allowing him to continue to play the political game.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu visits IDF soldiers in Rafah, in July. What form would victory assume? In Gaza, victory means the end of Hamas as the governing entity, the writer asserts.

Want Israel to win the war? Don't vote for Harris – opinion

Democrats seem more interested in appealing to voters by publicly condemning Israel than upholding the ironclad American commitment to Israel.

 US VICE President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris attends a Get Out The Vote event in Detroit, last Saturday. She and President Joe Biden delayed Israel’s invasion of Rafah in order to pick up votes in Arab-majority Dearborn, Michigan, the writer argues.

Trump slams Biden administration: 'If I were president, we wouldn't have had October 7'

“If I were president, that war would have never started. We wouldn’t have had October 7,” Trump told Al Arabiya.

REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL nominee and former US president Donald Trump makes a campaign speech in Savannah, Georgia, earlier this week. Trump expects to lose the election and is setting up the Jews to take the fall, the writer maintains.

Letters to the Editor, October 21, 2024: National taxes

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Why Israel ignores international advice and focuses on its survival – opinion

Despite well-meaning Western advice, Israel remains focused on battling Iranain-backed threats to preserve the Jewish state.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly last month.