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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

US Congress

Vice President Kamala Harris shakes hands with House Speaker Mike Johnson after a joint session of Congress confirmed the Electoral College votes, affirming President-elect Donald Trump's victory in the presidential election, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025, at the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
January 7, 2025, 1:53 am
Congress certifies Trump’s 2024 win, in sharp contrast to mob violence of 4 years ago
Vice President Kamala Harris oversees orderly process after losing November election; ‘Today, America’s democracy stood,’ she says
By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK, Farnoush Amiri and Matt Brown
US Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill, July 22, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
December 15, 2024, 11:12 pm
Mystery drone sightings over New Jersey show gaps in US security, says Trump adviser
Mike Waltz, whom Trump has tapped to be national security adviser, urges ‘Iron Dome for America,’ as White House plays down reports of unexplained UAVs, to some Democrats’ chagrin
By Phil Stewart, Kanishka Singh and Sarah N. Lynch
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, speaks with reporters at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, November 13, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
November 18, 2024, 3:40 am
Schumer pushing to codify IHRA antisemitism definition amid free speech concerns
Opposition to bill includes Trump critics who say it may give him weapon to go after political enemies; ACLU says definition goes ‘overboard,’ penalizes protected political speech
By Ron Kampeas
US President Joe Biden (R) meets with US President-elect Donald Trump (L) in the Oval Office of the White House, November 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
November 13, 2024, 8:16 pm
Trump makes triumphant visit to White House, where Biden pledges smooth transition
‘It’s nice to win,’ Trump tells Republican lawmakers on his first visit to Washington DC since being voted out of power, tells Biden politics is ‘a nice world today’
By Will Weissert, LISA MASCARO and Zeke Miller
FILE - Former Army officer Eugene Vindman, a Democrat running for Congress in Virginia's 7th District, is interviewed, September 12, 2024, in Stafford, Virginia. (AP Photo/Jay Paul, File)
November 7, 2024, 4:34 am
Democrat whose Jewish immigrant story featured in Trump impeachment elected to Congress
Eugene Vindman, who along with his twin brother Alexander was forced from US National Security Council by Trump in 2020, wins close race for seat in Virginia
By Ron Kampeas
Mondaire Jones (L) and Rep. Mike Lawler speak during the Congressional District 17 election debate on Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in Westchester, New York. (AP Photo/Brittainy Newman)
November 6, 2024, 8:46 pm
Pro-Israel politicians win congressional races across New York’s swing districts
Republican Mike Lawler retains seat after successfully courting Jewish community; Democrat Ritchie Torres coasts to victory with 76% of the vote in his Bronx district
By Luke Tress
Supporters cheer at an election night watch party for Republican Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, in Bozeman, Montana, November 6, 2024. (Tommy Martino/AP)
November 6, 2024, 11:18 am
Republicans win control of US Senate, make gains in House
GOP secures at least 51 seats out of Senate’s 100; Republicans lead Democrats in Michigan, Montana, Pennsylvania, Nevada and Wisconsin; control of House still undetermined
By Agencies
From left to right, back row: Josh Stein, Jacky Rosen; front row: Tom Suozzi, Alison Esposito, Mondaire Jones, Mike Lawler, Elissa Slotkin, Adam Schiff. (Collage by Grace Yagel/Getty Images)
November 5, 2024, 12:31 am
Beyond Trump and Harris: Seven congressional and governor’s races Jews should watch
Downticket races includes candidates vying for Hasidic votes, a centrist Jew opposite a ‘black NAZI,’ and a Soviet Jewish whistleblower facing a Republican who faked a family
By Ron Kampeas
This image from police-worn body camera, and provided and annotated by the US Justice Department, in the affidavit to support the criminal complaint and arrest warrant for Zachary Allen Kam, shows Kam during his arrest July 24, 2024, during protests in Washington against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the US Congress. (US Department of Justice via AP)
October 11, 2024, 1:33 pm
Chicago man charged with assaulting police at anti-Netanyahu protests in Washington
Zachary Allen Kam, 24, is at least third person charged with crimes over July 24 protest as PM addressed US Congress; Kam said to have scraped, bruised officer
By AP
The Manhattan office of New York Rep. Adriano Espaillat vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti, September 27, 2024. (Ben Sales/JTA)
September 28, 2024, 4:55 pm
Congressman’s office vandalized as pro-Palestinian protests reignite across NYC
Democratic politician’s windows defaced with anti-Israel graffiti, including inverted red triangle, a symbol Hamas uses to mark its targets in propaganda videos
By Luke Tress
Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey stumps for then-US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (not pictured) at the at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, New Jersey, on May 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
August 22, 2024, 9:05 am
Bill Pascrell, NJ congressman who played balancing act on Israel, dies at 87
Democrat, whose district included ‘Little Ramallah,’ had weathered pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian primary challengers in his 14 terms: ‘I’ve tried to get the communities together’
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Rep. Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, speaks May 24, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
August 10, 2024, 2:40 pm
Why pro-Israel groups aren’t going after Ilhan Omar after helping oust others in Squad
Lobbies believe this year’s circumstances make a defeat of Omar by rival Don Samuels in Tuesday’s primary unrealistic
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: This picture taken from northern Israel shows an Israeli Air Force fighter jet flying over the border area with south Lebanon on July 7, 2024 (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
August 10, 2024, 3:51 am
US to release $3.5 billion of Israel military aid package approved by Congress
CNN says the money will be spent on US arms that are currently being produced and will be delivered in the future, not immediate procurement
By Reuters and ToI Staff
IDF troops on the ground in the Gaza Strip during operations against Hamas, in an image released on July 25, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces/AFP)
July 25, 2024, 9:52 pm
US military chief: Israel has not shared detailed plans for ‘day after’ war in Gaza
Joint chiefs chair Brown says Washington has brought up issue with Jerusalem multiple times, after PM gives Congress vague outline of post-war governance in Strip
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of the US Congress at the Capitol in Washington, July 24, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
July 25, 2024, 1:49 pm
Congress mostly relished PM’s speech, but the despair of many outside and inside intruded
Many Democrats boycott Netanyahu’s address, sit down with captives’ relatives instead; premier met with protests on arrival at Capitol from hawkish powwow at Joe Lieberman memorial
By Ron Kampeas
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