Opinion: Sheikh Jarrah highlights the violent brazenness of Israel’s colonialist project
Girl, 15, pleads guilty to murder in fatal carjacking of Uber Eats driver in D.C.
Hamas and Israel exchange rocket fire following contentious ‘Jerusalem Day’ clashes - "Tensions have been rising amid a court effort by a Jewish settler group to evict six Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, a mostly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem."
Trump endorses GOP’s Youngkin for Virginia governor as campaign mudslinging gets underway
Grievance, rebellion and burnt bridges: Tracing Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection: From his teenage writings to his incendiary support for false 2020 election claims, the Missouri senator is staking out a place in today’s far-right Republican Party - "On one, he has pursued elite privilege, even relative to other senators, commuting to a private high school, attending Stanford University and Yale Law School, clerking at the Supreme Court, and working for a powerful Washington law firm, all while courting liberal professors and establishment Republicans who enabled his ascent.
"On the other, he has expressed sympathy with some of the country’s most far-right, anti-government extremists, demonstrating a willingness to see the world through their grievance-infused prism even after horrific attacks — from Oklahoma City in 1995, when he was 15, to the Capitol attack in 2021.
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"'I feel very responsible for Josh Hawley being in the Senate. I feel terrible about it,' said former senator John C. Danforth (R-Mo.), who recently called his encouragement of Hawley’s Senate run the 'greatest mistake of my life.' He added, 'Josh Hawley played a central role in creating if not the darkest day in American history, one of the darkest days in American history.'
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"Hawley, an evangelical, had seen how Trump captured the presidency in 2016, in part by winning the White evangelical vote by 80 to 16 percent.
"So, when Hawley spoke before a group of ministers in Kansas City in December 2017, he sounded like a different person than the one who had written five years earlier that there were 'distinct missions of church and state — is it really the role of government, for instance, to promote ‘Christian values’ or refurbish America’s Christian heritage?' The state, he had written, should not be used 'to convert non-believers.'
"But in his 2017 speech, he advocated going into 'the public realm and to seek the obedience of the nations, of our nation … to transform our society to reflect the gospel truth and lordship of Jesus Christ.'"
Opinion: Ted Cruz just sent a very important message to Joe Manchin
Opinion: Think Republicans in Washington are bad? They’re far worse at the state level.
Opinion: Jeff Flake: In today’s Republican Party, there is no greater offense than honesty
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