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Secret Service downplays report of petition warning of ‘inadequate training’: ‘Our people are exceptional’

The Secret Service is downplaying a report that a petition is circulating internally raising concerns about recent incidents linked to “inadequate training,” telling Fox News Digital that “our people are exceptional.”  Bloomberg White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted Thursday that the petition has at least 39 signatures and calls for a congressional investigation into the Read More

Are US graduation ceremonies the latest battleground for Gaza protests?

EXPLAINER Here’s how pro-Palestine campus protests and encampments are affecting graduation ceremonies at US universities. College graduates all over the United States this year are walking on stage to collect their degrees after donning Palestinian flags and keffiyehs with their caps and gowns. Graduation ceremonies are taking place in May during protests and encampments in Read More

United Nations General Assembly backs Palestinian bid for membership

Resolution does not give Palestine full UN membership, but recognises them as qualified to join and extends rights. The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has backed a Palestinian bid to become a full UN member by recognising it as qualified to join and recommending the UN Security Council “reconsider the matter favourably”. The vote by Read More

Mozambique’s president says northern town ‘under attack’ by armed groups

President Filipe Nyusi said the country’s army is battling ISIL-linked groups in gas-rich Cabo Delgado’s Macomia. Mozambique’s army is fighting armed groups who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia, President Filipe Nyusi has said in a televised address. The town is in Cabo Delgado, a gas-rich northern province where groups linked Read More

House Education Committee chair demands answers after Northwestern University caves to anti-Israel agitators

Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the chairwoman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, sent a letter to Northwestern University leaders on Friday, demanding answers on an agreement reached with anti-Israel agitators.  In the letter, Foxx announces her committee has opened an investigation into the university’s “response to antisemitism and its failure to protect Jewish students.” Read More