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Trump yanks prosecutor nomination of Ed Martin, who called a Nazi sympathizer ‘extraordinary’

Martin recently apologized for his past vocal praise of Hale-Cusanelli, who was sentenced to four years in prison for his role on Jan. 6 before being pardoned by Trump.

Interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward Martin speaks in Washington, D.C., on March 25, 2025.
 Republican presidential nominee and former US President Donald Trump gestures as he holds hands with his wife Melania during his rally, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, November 6, 2024.

Watch: Donald Trump wins US 2024 presidential election

 U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) speaks to reporters in the Longworth House office building on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, October 11, 2023.

House Foreign Affairs Committee calls for WH to expedite arms sale to Israel

 Matt Brooks, CEO of Republican Jewish Coalition holds up a kippah with the name "Trump" on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, July 16, 2024.

In a first, Republican Jewish Coalition CEO addresses RNC as Republicans vow to make US Jews safer


Three Jewish organizations express alarm over GOP’s mass deportation plan

The Republican platform, published this week, pledges to “carry out the largest deportation operation in American history.”

A family evacuated from Afghanistan is led through the arrival terminal at Dulles International Airport in the Washington area to board a bus that will take them to a refugee processing center, Aug. 25, 2021.

GOP Congressman to ‘Post’: Bipartisan support for Israel goes back years, ‘I hope it doesn’t stop'

Congressman Calvert introduced the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, with a vote on it expected Thursday.

 U.S. President Joe Biden remains in the nearly empty chamber greeting members of Congress following his State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 7, 2024.

Nikki Haley ends White House bid, WSJ reports

The decision will ensure that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination and once again face Democratic President Joe Biden in November's election.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks with U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House after it was announced the president had accepted the Haley's resignation in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2018

With DeSantis out, will Mideast calculate odds on Trump win? - analysis

Many countries in the world will begin to factor in the possibility of a Trump victory into their policies.

 Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a rally in advance of the New Hampshire presidential primary election in Rochester, New Hampshire, U.S., January 21, 2024.

House calls on MIT, Harvard presidents to resign over campus antisemitism

The vote was 303 to 126, with 125 democrats voting against the resolution. Elise Stefanik, the lead initiator of the resolution, condemned those Democrats who did not support the bill.

 U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks during a House Education and The Workforce Committee hearing titled "Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 5, 2023.

Presidential candidate Chris Christie visits Israel, vows to share atrocities witnessed

Christie urged protestors to “come to Israel and see it for yourself.” • “If you don’t understand the stakes after seeing this, then you’re lost.”

 Ruby Chen, the American father of a hostage held by Hamas shows a dog tag with the words "Bring them home" on it to the former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) in Tel Aviv, Israel November 12, 2023

Trump's rivals pledge to back Israel amid swipes at third Republican debate

Nikki Haley, a former UN ambassador who has staked much of her candidacy on her foreign policy credentials, faulted Biden for pressing Israel to consider humanitarian pauses.

 Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Ron DeSantis at the third Republican candidates' U.S. presidential debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, Florida, U.S., November 8, 2023.

US Republican presidential candidates tout Israel support in speeches to Jewish donors

Support for Israel is a hallmark of American Republican politics.

 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Nikki Haley attends a town hall in South Carolina, this week. She has given millions of Americans good reason to cast their votes for Joe Biden and Democrats up and down the ballot in 2024, the writer maintains.

Nikki Haley to Fox: ‘Kamala Harris failed at everything she’s ever been given’

The GOP presidential candidate defended her statements against an accusation of racism.

 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley speaks after announcing her 2024 presidential campaign, in Urbandale, Iowa, last week.

Father, aunt helped indicted US Representative George Santos post bail

George Santos and his lawyer had argued that releasing the names might subject his guarantors to the "media frenzy and hateful attacks."

 US REPRESENTATIVE-Elect George Santos appears in an undated still image from a political campaign video.

Anti-Israel Jewish IfNotNow activists disrupt Ron DeSantis speech

Activists went onstage where DeSantis was speaking, yelling: "Jews against DeSantis!" as they were dragged off by security.

 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks during a book tour visit at Adventure Outdoors gun shop in Smyrna, Georgia, US March 30, 2023