The Justice Department is signaling a broader use of federal civil rights law against protesters accused of disrupting religious worship, with officials pointing to synagogue cases as a model for future enforcement. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said the department has applied the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a law historically associated with abortion clinic protests, to...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new antisemitism czar once said she was “floored” by a social media post condemning Hamas for firing rockets toward civilian population centers in Israel.  In 2021, Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism, criticized a post by then-mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, who scolded Hamas terrorists, the New York Post reported.  In his post, Yang said that New Yorkers...

EXCLUSIVE: Three members of Congress representing heavily Cuban-American districts are demanding the Trump administration shut off the remaining commercial “valves” of support for the communist Castro and Díaz-Canel regime in Havana after effectively blockading key oil imports in recent days. The demand from Reps. Carlos Giménez, Mario Díaz-Balart and María Elvira Salazar, all Republicans from Florida, comes as Cuban despot Miguel Díaz-Canel warned his country is “close to...