A federal judge questioned why ICE blocked Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk from campus work after her Gaza op-ed, raising concerns about retaliation for protected speech.
According to a Channel 12 News report, Trump pressed Netanyahu on killing Rafah tunnel militants and told Israel to 'take it easy' in Syria, as Netanyahu struck a softer tone during a visit to an IDF enlistment center and framed his pardon plea as a bid for national 'healing' – without admitting any guilt
Trump ordered a report by his top cabinet secretaries on designating Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist groups, while Netanyahu announced plans to ban the organization in Israel in what is seen as an effort to limit Arab parties' Knesset participation
Trump's repeated praise of the incoming mayor punctuated the meeting, as Mamdani pledged to address living costs and antisemitism in the city, adding that even Trump voters told him they were 'tired of seeing tax dollars fund endless wars' and Israeli violations of human rights
Trump denounced ABC News' Mary Bruce as a 'terrible reporter,' threatening the network's license after she questioned Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling the slain journalist 'controversial' and countering U.S. intelligence linking the Saudi Crown Prince to the murder
Trump, in his summit with the Saudi Crown Prince, has created a new balance of mutual American–Saudi dependency in which Riyadh holds equal weight to Washington ■ In this equilibrium, Israel's standing is shrinking from that of a strategic ally to a 'tactical component,' fully subordinate to the dictates of the American administration
Asked at his White House meeting with the Saudi crown prince on how the U.S. sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia would affect the joint U.S.–Israel policy of preserving Israel's qualitative military edge, Trump said that both Israel and the Saudi kingdom are 'at a level where they should get top-of-the-line' jets
At the end of his first term, Trump intended to link the Abraham Accords to a deal to sell F-35s to the UAE. But now, the president views the sale as a key element of U.S. foreign policy, contradicting the longstanding U.S. policy of preserving Israel's qualitative military edge in the Middle East
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration ran a 'concerted campaign' to purge 'woke,' 'left' and 'socialist' viewpoints from top universities, after demanding the University of California pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research over alleged campus antisemitism
The potential deal comes as Trump plans to host the Saudi Crown Prince at the White House next week, when they are expected to sign economic and defense agreements. Last week, Trump said that Kazakhstan is set to join the Abraham Accords
The key question now is how far the Trump administration will go - and whether this entire process of regional realignment will ultimately produce a security arrangement between Israel and Syria
Trump's intervention in Netanyahu's trial, breaking all bounds of U.S. involvement in Israeli politics, is a cause for celebration for the prime minister, proving Trump is doing all he can to shield him from the consequences of his own actions
Calling Netanyahu's trial 'a political, unjustified prosecution,' Trump asked Israel's President Herzog in a formal letter to pardon Netanyahu, who faces charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate criminal cases; Netanyahu responded to Trump: 'You get right to the point and call it like it is'
Syrian President al-Sharaa said Trump will help the country in reaching negotiations with Israel, but stated that Syria's potential participation in the Abraham Accords differs from that of other countries that have normalized ties with Israel: 'Syria has a border with Israel, and Israel has occupied the Golan Heights since 1967'
U.S. President spoke to PM Netanyahu and Kazakh President Tokayev, whose country already has full ties with Israel; Trump added that the White House would soon announce 'a signing ceremony to make it official'
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump endorsed former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in a post on his Truth Social platform. Trump wrote that if 'Communist' Mamdani wins, it's 'highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required'
'We got Neutra. I spoke to his parents,' Trump told the press on board Air Force One. 'They're thrilled in one sense, but in another sense, obviously, they're not too great.' The identity of the other two bodies is yet to be announced
After boasting of a deal that ended 'thousands of years of conflict,' Trump wakes to Gaza strikes and a slipping truce – and anything short of an explicit 'no' is read in Jerusalem as a green light
All previous prime ministers succeeded in preserving independence on crucial issues. Until Netanyahu. Now, Trump has set up a committee to manage Israel, naming himself as head of the committee, transforming Netanyahu from prime minister into an executive. The high commissioner, once British, is now American