White House national security spokesman John Kirby deemed the leader of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar, “the major obstacle” to achieving a cease-fire deal in recent weeks.  During an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” Kirby responded to The Wall Street Journal’s reporting that senior U.S. officials who hoped for months for a cease-fire and hostage release deal now do not expect Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement before the...

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is unveiling a new plan for avoiding a partial government shutdown on Sunday after a House GOP rebellion derailed a more conservative measure last week. House leaders are aiming for a vote this week on a short-term extension of the current year’s government funding levels, called a continuing resolution (CR), to give congressional negotiators more time to hash out federal spending priorities for the...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reflected on how students at Columbia University, where she teaches a class, “morphed” from holding “respectful” dialogue on the war in Israel into holding “nasty” protests against the nation that she said were “not student-led.”  “We basically sat down and answered questions for 45, 50 minutes, and the questions were really raw. I mean, we had a student from Palestine, a Palestinian...