A series of boisterous protests broke out at the start of the Senate confirmation hearing for Mike Huckabee, the nominee to be U.S.ambassador to Israel.  Capitol Police officers forcibly removed several protesters at three separate moments during the few minutes as Huckabee delivered his opening statement.   The activists shouted messages like “Jews say no” and “free Palestine” and claimed Huckabee “misuses Christianity to justify ethnic cleansing.” “Israel...

President Donald Trump revealed that a staffer with national security advisor Mike Waltz’s office included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic in a Signal group chat with senior Trump officials who were discussing plans for an upcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there,” Trump told NBC in a phone interview when asked how Jeffrey...

There appears to be little appetite within the House GOP to pursue the impeachment of judges who have blocked President Donald Trump’s agenda. Republican lawmakers are instead coalescing around a bill led by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to limit the ability of U.S. district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, which is due for a House floor vote next week. One House GOP lawmaker at Tuesday morning’s closed-door...