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New York Rep. Ritchie Torres — one of the Democratic Party's most ardent Zionists — has begun questioning Israel as recent images of starving Palestinian children shock leaders around the world. Torres' shift is slight and nuanced. Yet coming from such a vocal defender of Israel, it signifies how moderate Democrats are backing away from the unqualified support for the Jewish state that has underscored the party for decades. And it comes as countries around the globe are reacting in horror at the famine gripping the region and reports of thousands of children dying of starvation as the Israeli military continues its offensive following Hamas’ October 7 attack. "All parties, including the U.S. and Israel, have a moral obligation to do everything in our power to ease the hardship and hunger that has taken hold in the Gaza Strip," Torres said in an interview last week. He insisted his long-held defense of Israel still stands. "I feel it's possible t...

Cracks appear in the U.S. jobs market. Trump fires labor statistics commissioner after jobs report. BYD records its first monthly delivery decline in 2025. U.S. stocks suffer their worst day in months. Robotaxis are becoming a reality, and some companies are poised to win. After U.S. jobs figures for May and June were significantly revised downward by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — cutting a combined 258,000 from previous figures — President Donald Trump, accusing BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of political bias and data manipulation, revised her employment status to "terminated." Government officials from both sides of the political spectrum had plenty to say about that. "Bottom line, Trump wants to cook the books," said Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Meanwhile, Republican Senator Rand Paul told NBC News that "you can't really make the numbers different or better by firing the ...

The grief for the New York Police Department Officer Didarul Islam stretched from Midtown Manhattan all the way up to the 47th Precinct in the Bronx on Monday night. The crying could be heard from the street, said one neighbor walking his dog in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx. New York City Police officers, he told affiliate CBS New York, had arrived at Islam's home with news that one of their own had been fatally shot in the massacre at a Midtown skyscraper earlier that day. The 36-year-old, one of four who died in the shooting , left behind a pregnant wife and two young boys. On the Upper East Side, dozens of people - including his fellow NYPD officers, Mayor Eric Adams, and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch - lined the street after midnight with salutes or their hands over their hearts outside NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. His family and friends, clinging to each other, escorted his body. An NYPD flag, with green ...

Our former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has said the U.S. public has reached a "volcanic" "boiling point" of impatience with the president over his broken promises to lower prices, end foreign wars, and release government files on deceased child trafficker Jeffrey Epstein - all issues that the president promised to resolve in his second term. On NPR's Morning Edition, Host Steve Inskeep asked Buttigieg what he makes of the fact that polls have shown that Americans have an interest in the Epstein files. Buttigieg noted that Republicans recently closed the U.S. House of Representatives rather than allow legislators to vote on releasing the files, suggesting that there's something in the files that's "very sensitive" for the president. Related Pete Buttigieg says politicians have no business making decisions about transgender athletes He also emphasized the need for compassion for all parties involv...