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Walz pick does little to persuade Dearborn’s anti-Biden/Harris voters

Voters in Dearborn, Michigan, who led a movement against President Biden’s bid for re-election, are unlikely to support Vice President Harris even after she tapped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate. “Nope,” Mike Hachem, a Dearborn leader of the Abandon Biden movement, told Fox News Digital when asked if the choice of Walz...

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Justice Department indicts Iranian, Pakistani nationals linked to Navy SEAL deaths in Arabian Sea

The Justice Department announced an indictment Thursday against two Iranian brothers and a Pakistani national linked to a U.S. military operation off the coast of Somalia in January that resulted in the deaths of two Navy SEALs. Shahab and Yunus Mir’kazei — who federal prosecutors say work for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – and...

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Netanyahu apologizes for Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, warns Israel now faces 'full-fledged Iranian axis'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a new interview with Time Magazine, apologized for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas terrorists happening on his watch, and warned that the country now faces a “full-fledged Iranian axis.” Netanyahu had been prime minister for almost a year when Hamas terrorists launched the attack on southern Israel that...

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Israel issues message to Lebanese citizens amid reports of potential preemptive strike on Hezbollah

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a warning to the people of Lebanon as both Israel and Hezbollah consider first-strike options amid simmering tensions in the Middle East. Gallant stressed that Israel seeks “peace, prosperity and stability on both sides of the northern border” in contrast to Hezbollah, who have “taken Lebanon and its people...

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Israel vows to kill new Hamas political leader who plotted Oct. 7 massacre

Israel is vowing to kill the new political leader of Hamas, with an IDF official saying the only place he belongs is beside the group’s slain military commander and the rest of the “October 7th terrorists.” Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ top official in Gaza and one of the masterminds of the massacre that launched the Israel-Hamas...

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'Be afraid': Bush threatens pro-Israel group in bizarre rant after wide-margin loss

Democratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri used her concession speech this week to blast the nation’s largest pro-Israel group, warning them to “be afraid.” Bush — who lost her primary election to a pro-Israel Democratic rival financially backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) — warned that the group’s influence on the election...

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Biden hunkers down in White House with no public events on schedule again

President Biden was briefly seen Monday walking from Marine One to the Oval Office, ignoring reporters’ questions, and the 81-year-old president has not been seen publicly since. A lack of public appearances has become the new normal for the president since he dropped out of the 2024 race, allowing Vice President Kamala Harris to take...