“I cannot stay silent as this administration turns a blind eye to the atrocities committed against innocent Palestinian lives,” wrote Tariq Habash, who worked in the Education Department. An Education Department official who volunteered for President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign announced his resignation Wednesday over the administration’s support for Israel’s “indiscriminate violence” against Palestinians in […]
WASHINGTON — Internal dissent within the Biden administration over its unwavering support of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza in retaliation for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas was evident with the recent resignation of a diplomat. Josh Paul, who until last week was the director of congressional and public affairs at the State Department’s bureau that […]
The lawmaker was facing an expulsion hearing after an internal investigation found he had furnished a 19-year-old staffer with alcohol and later tried to intimidate her into silence about what transpired and their relationship. Republican State Rep. Bryan Slaton of Texas resigned his seat Monday in order to avoid a public expulsion hearing after an […]
Thomas “cannot judge right from wrong, so why should he be judging the country’s most important cases on its highest court?” asked the Democrat. Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts on Monday echoed other members of Congress who have urged U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to step down over mounting evidence of unethical behavior, and he […]