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US President Donald Trump waits to greet Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa at the White House, in Washington, July 16, 2025. (Evan Vucci/AP)
July 17, 2025, 11:27 am
Senate passes $9b in spending cuts, including Trump requests for foreign aid slashes
Some Republicans are nevertheless concerned about opaque nature of cutbacks that will reduce cash for public broadcasting and food aid programs abroad
By KEVIN FREKING and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
April 26, 2025, 6:08 am
Jewish senators accuse Trump of using antisemitism as ‘guise’ to attack US universities
Group of five Democrats led by Chuck Schumer say US president seems to be ‘using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you’
By Grace Gilson
US Sen. Brian Schatz does some last minute campaigning near the polling place, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014 in Pahoa, Hawaii. (Photo credit: AP/Marco Garcia)
May 18, 2019, 6:52 am
2 Democratic senators mock Trump’s Iran deal strategy on Twitter
Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Brian Schatz of Hawaii poke fun at president’s foreign policy fumbles, as tensions in the Persian Gulf soar
By Ron Kampeas
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 24, 2017, about the Paris climate agreement. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
March 22, 2018, 6:38 am
AIPAC-aligned Senator Cardin to address J Street confab
Maryland lawmaker is sponsor of bill, opposed by dovish lobbying group, that would criminalize some Israel boycotts; Brian Schatz also to speak
By JTA
Lian Najami speaking at an Israeli Independence Day student gala at Boston University, in Boston, Mass., April 6, 2017. (Nir Landau for Combined Jewish Philanthropies via JTA)
December 16, 2017, 12:34 pm
Israel’s first Arab Rhodes scholar loves her country and is trying to change it
‘I have Israeli chutzpah’ says Lian Najami. ‘I always have in mind: What can I do from here?’
By Andrew Tobin
Orthodox Jews try to prevent a group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members from bringing Torah scrolls into the Western Wall compound during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 20, 2017, 7:43 am
Sanders, 6 other Jewish US senators urge PM to implement Western Wall deal
Signatories on letter implore Netanyahu to safeguard religious pluralism, block conversion bill
By JTA
US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to board Air Force One, prior to departing from Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Maryland, August 18, 2017. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)
August 20, 2017, 10:28 pm
Jewish senator calls on Trump’s Jewish Cabinet members to resign
Democrat Brian Schatz says US president ‘is not capable morally, politically or in terms of incompetencies to lead the free world’
By JTA
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks to a reporter about a comparison he made between Syria's President Bashar Assad and Adolf Hitler during an earlier press briefing at the White House April 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
April 14, 2017, 1:00 am
ADL offers to host Holocaust educational session for White House staff
In letter to Spicer, Jewish group says a few hours of learning WWII history will help prevent future mistakes by members of administration
By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff
White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
April 12, 2017, 2:07 am
Spicer sorry for saying Hitler didn’t use chemical weapons
After drawing outrage for seeming to downplay Nazi crimes, Trump spokesman tells CNN he ‘mistakenly used inappropriate, insensitive reference to Holocaust’
By Eric Cortellessa and AP
In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
April 12, 2017, 12:00 am
Democratic leader calls on Trump to fire spokesman over Hitler comments
Nancy Pelosi, Jewish senators and American Jewish groups excoriate press secretary Sean Spicer for saying Nazi leader did not use chemical weapons
By Eric Cortellessa and AP
In this Nov. 3, 2016, photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the University of Cincinnati. (AP/John Minchillo)
November 10, 2016, 8:04 pm
Leaderless Democratic Party in dire straits after GOP sweeps
Following Clinton defeat, party has few up-and-coming stars among aging stalwarts like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
By Julie Bykowicz
In this Oct. 27, 2015, photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the 122nd International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference in Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
November 1, 2015, 4:11 am
Obama crosses own red line with Syrian deployment
A president who campaigned to end US involvement in Mideast wars finds himself escalating troop numbers in Iraq, Syria
By Julie Pace
US Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii (Public Domain/US Government)
August 11, 2015, 12:49 am
Jewish senator becomes latest backer of Iran deal
Brian Schatz says accord with Tehran has ‘no other alternative that achieves these results’
By AP and ToI Staff
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