Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike after they delivered a crucial shipment of food to displaced civilians in Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israeli Defense Forces forces were responsible for the deaths in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. “Our forces unintentionally hit innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “As it happens in war, we are investigating the matter fully, we are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything possible to prevent this from happening again.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Israeli Defense Forces forces were responsible for the deaths in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. “Our forces unintentionally hit innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he said. “As it happens in war, we are investigating the matter fully, we are in contact with the governments, and we will do everything possible to prevent this from happening again.
- 4/2/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Sen. Chris Van Hollen called on President Joe Biden to stop sending weapons to Israel while Palestinians in Gaza are “literally starving to death.”
Van Hollen reiterated his calls for “a ceasefire and a return of all the hostages” in Gaza while imploring Biden to cease sending munitions to Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Until the Netanyahu government allows more assistance into Gaza to help people who are literally starving to death, we should not be sending more bombs” to Israel, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells @MarthaRaddatz. https://t.
Van Hollen reiterated his calls for “a ceasefire and a return of all the hostages” in Gaza while imploring Biden to cease sending munitions to Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Until the Netanyahu government allows more assistance into Gaza to help people who are literally starving to death, we should not be sending more bombs” to Israel, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen tells @MarthaRaddatz. https://t.
- 3/31/2024
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
On Tuesday night, the United States Senate tabled a resolution that would have required the State Department to report to Congress on Israeli human rights violations committed in Gaza involving the use of U.S. arms and equipment.
Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats [Sens. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-n.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-n.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.)], one Republican [Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)], and one Independent [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
Only 11 senators voted in favor of the resolution: nine Democrats [Sens. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.), Martin Heinrich (D-n.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-n.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Peter Welch (D-Vt.)], one Republican [Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)], and one Independent [Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
- 1/17/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez is facing a rapidly growing number of calls from his Democratic colleagues to resign from office following a damning indictment on charges of corruption and bribery.
On Wednesday, Menendez pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment in Manhattan court.
The indictment, which was made public on Friday, was initially met with widespread silence from Senate Democrats, save for Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, who on Saturday called for Menendez’s resignation. “Senator Menendez should resign,” he wrote. “He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence,...
On Wednesday, Menendez pleaded not guilty to the charges during his arraignment in Manhattan court.
The indictment, which was made public on Friday, was initially met with widespread silence from Senate Democrats, save for Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, who on Saturday called for Menendez’s resignation. “Senator Menendez should resign,” he wrote. “He’s entitled to the presumption of innocence,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto crackdown continued Tuesday, with the financial regulator bringing new charges against another major cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase.
The new complaint alleges that, since at least 2019, Coinbase has served as a securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency but never registered as such with the SEC. In doing so, the SEC said in a statement that Coinbase has “deprived investors of significant protections,” including SEC inspection, record keeping requirements, and other safeguards.
One of those safeguards has to do with the SEC’s allegation that Coinbase...
The new complaint alleges that, since at least 2019, Coinbase has served as a securities exchange, broker, and clearing agency but never registered as such with the SEC. In doing so, the SEC said in a statement that Coinbase has “deprived investors of significant protections,” including SEC inspection, record keeping requirements, and other safeguards.
One of those safeguards has to do with the SEC’s allegation that Coinbase...
- 6/6/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Securities and Exchange Commission ramped up the pressure on Binance, bringing 13 charges against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and its founder/CEO Changpeng “Cz” Zhao.
Accusing Binance of misleading customers and misusing funds, the SEC said the company was able to control customer assets and move them around as it pleased. Binance allegedly diverted some of those funds to a separate entity Zhao owned, Sigma Chain, which the SEC said was “engaged in manipulative trading” to artificially boost the trading volume on Binance.US — a platform established in 2019 for U.
Accusing Binance of misleading customers and misusing funds, the SEC said the company was able to control customer assets and move them around as it pleased. Binance allegedly diverted some of those funds to a separate entity Zhao owned, Sigma Chain, which the SEC said was “engaged in manipulative trading” to artificially boost the trading volume on Binance.US — a platform established in 2019 for U.
- 6/5/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
There was a moment, late last fall, when Changpeng Zhao seemed like the smartest guy in crypto.
The news was sudden and definitive: Binance, Zhao’s international trading post, announced plans to buy its biggest rival, Ftx, led by the young American Sam Bankman-Fried, or Sbf. It looked like a world-historic chess move. Not only was Bankman-Fried giving up on his once-ascendant businesses — he was actually bending the knee, selling whatever was left of the apparently ailing Ftx for scrap.
Then, as quickly as the deal was announced, it evaporated.
The news was sudden and definitive: Binance, Zhao’s international trading post, announced plans to buy its biggest rival, Ftx, led by the young American Sam Bankman-Fried, or Sbf. It looked like a world-historic chess move. Not only was Bankman-Fried giving up on his once-ascendant businesses — he was actually bending the knee, selling whatever was left of the apparently ailing Ftx for scrap.
Then, as quickly as the deal was announced, it evaporated.
- 6/3/2023
- by Will Gottsegen
- Rollingstone.com
Sen. John Fetterman checked into Walter Reed on Wednesday night for clinical depression, his office announced on Thursday.
The first-term senator from Pennsylvania’s trip to Walter Reed comes a week after he was discharged from George Washington Hospital after he began feeling ill on a Senate Democratic retreat. It also comes after countless other lawmakers have checked into and out of hospitals to receive treatment for a variety of medical conditions.
“While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,...
The first-term senator from Pennsylvania’s trip to Walter Reed comes a week after he was discharged from George Washington Hospital after he began feeling ill on a Senate Democratic retreat. It also comes after countless other lawmakers have checked into and out of hospitals to receive treatment for a variety of medical conditions.
“While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
More than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate and independent Bernie Sanders have signed a letter urging the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to negotiate a fair contract with IATSE, saying, “We are united in our belief in the importance of livable wages, sustainable benefits, and reasonable rest periods between shifts and during the workday” – three of the union’s core demands.
The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
The union’s members begin voting on strike authorization Friday in advance of what could be the last round of bargaining before a strike that would shut down film and TV productions across the country.
The politicians also reminded Lombardini that industry workers “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”
Here is their letter:
Dear Ms. Lombardini:...
The letter was signed by 31 senators and 87 representatives and sent to AMPTP president Carol Lombardini.
The union’s members begin voting on strike authorization Friday in advance of what could be the last round of bargaining before a strike that would shut down film and TV productions across the country.
The politicians also reminded Lombardini that industry workers “risked their health and safety” during the pandemic, and that “the entertainment you jointly produce is helping to heal our nation.”
Here is their letter:
Dear Ms. Lombardini:...
- 10/1/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
With declines in advertising revenue devastating news organizations across the country because of the coronavirus pandemic, 14 U.S. Senators have signed a letter urging Senate leaders to specifically “include payroll support for digital-native news professionals in the next Covid-19-related legislation.”
The letter is endorsed by the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, and the WGA East, which represents staffers at online news outlets such as HuffPost, Salon, Slate, Vox Media and Vice Media.
“The Covid-19 pandemic’s economic devastation has rippled out to the news industry,” the senators wrote today in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles Schumer. “Initial reporting estimated a 51% decline in spending on advertisements over March and April. When Americans stopped shopping, retailers stopped advertising. When Americans quit traveling, airlines and hotels quit advertising.
“This pause in advertising has hurt digital-native news outlets in particular. These organizations rely primarily on advertising revenue to pay the bills.
The letter is endorsed by the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, and the WGA East, which represents staffers at online news outlets such as HuffPost, Salon, Slate, Vox Media and Vice Media.
“The Covid-19 pandemic’s economic devastation has rippled out to the news industry,” the senators wrote today in a letter to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Charles Schumer. “Initial reporting estimated a 51% decline in spending on advertisements over March and April. When Americans stopped shopping, retailers stopped advertising. When Americans quit traveling, airlines and hotels quit advertising.
“This pause in advertising has hurt digital-native news outlets in particular. These organizations rely primarily on advertising revenue to pay the bills.
- 6/9/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
In a move that is all but impossible to label as anything but partisan, the White House has blocked their top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, from testifying before a Democratic-controlled House subcommittee next week, but will allow the doctor to testify in front of a Republican-led Senate committee later this month.
After the Washington Post broke the story late Friday, White House spokesman Judd Deere, released a statement that said allowing Fauci to appear before Congress would be “counterproductive” to the government’s coronavirus response teams’ efforts. But...
After the Washington Post broke the story late Friday, White House spokesman Judd Deere, released a statement that said allowing Fauci to appear before Congress would be “counterproductive” to the government’s coronavirus response teams’ efforts. But...
- 5/2/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
At the outset of the presidential campaign, Democrats shut Fox News out of sponsoring any of its debates, frustrated over what party chairman Tom Perez called an “inappropriate relationship” between the network and President Donald Trump.
But a number of candidates have still gone on to participate in the network’s town halls, the most recent being Pete Buttigieg, who appeared in a Des Moines event last week moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday.
Not too surprisingly, Wallace thinks it was a “foolish mistake” for Democrats to shun Fox News as a debate sponsor.
“You know it’s like Willie Sutton said, when they asked why did you rob banks, he said ‘That’s where the money is.’ Why would you not go on Fox News?” he says.
Iowa voters can change their registration on caucus night and vote in the Democratic caucus, he notes, and “why wouldn...
But a number of candidates have still gone on to participate in the network’s town halls, the most recent being Pete Buttigieg, who appeared in a Des Moines event last week moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday.
Not too surprisingly, Wallace thinks it was a “foolish mistake” for Democrats to shun Fox News as a debate sponsor.
“You know it’s like Willie Sutton said, when they asked why did you rob banks, he said ‘That’s where the money is.’ Why would you not go on Fox News?” he says.
Iowa voters can change their registration on caucus night and vote in the Democratic caucus, he notes, and “why wouldn...
- 2/3/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump unloaded on Fox News on Tuesday after it featured a segment with one of his critics, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-md).
Trump also went after a Fox News host, Chris Wallace, and mocked a former anchor, Shepard Smith.
Trump wrote, “Really pathetic how @FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by loading the airwaves with Democrats like Chris Van Hollen, the no name Senator from Maryland. He has been on forever playing up the Impeachment Hoax. Dems wouldn’t even give Fox their low ratings debates….”
He added, “…So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews. Only I know! Chris Wallace and others should be on Fake News CNN or Msdnc. How’s Shep Smith doing? Watch, this will be the beginning of the end for Fox, just like the other two which are dying in the ratings. Social Media is great!”
…..So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews.
Trump also went after a Fox News host, Chris Wallace, and mocked a former anchor, Shepard Smith.
Trump wrote, “Really pathetic how @FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by loading the airwaves with Democrats like Chris Van Hollen, the no name Senator from Maryland. He has been on forever playing up the Impeachment Hoax. Dems wouldn’t even give Fox their low ratings debates….”
He added, “…So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews. Only I know! Chris Wallace and others should be on Fake News CNN or Msdnc. How’s Shep Smith doing? Watch, this will be the beginning of the end for Fox, just like the other two which are dying in the ratings. Social Media is great!”
…..So, what the hell has happened to @FoxNews.
- 1/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
During a press conference prior to last month’s release of the redacted Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr was asked whether he would permit Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before Congress.
“I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying,” he said.
But as many have come to suspect over the past month — and as seems to have been revealed definitively Tuesday night — Barr shares an aversion to the truth with the president who appointed him. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that he is now trying to prevent,...
“I have no objection to Bob Mueller personally testifying,” he said.
But as many have come to suspect over the past month — and as seems to have been revealed definitively Tuesday night — Barr shares an aversion to the truth with the president who appointed him. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that he is now trying to prevent,...
- 5/1/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Robert Mueller wrote a scathing letter to Attorney General Bill Barr in late March, blasting Barr’s infamous four-page summary to Congress because it did “not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s findings. That is the takeaway from a bombshell report published Tuesday evening in the Washington Post.
Mueller’s letter, sent days after Barr’s cursory briefing of March 24th, blamed Barr’s communique for spurring “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation” into the Trump campaign’s contacts...
Mueller’s letter, sent days after Barr’s cursory briefing of March 24th, blamed Barr’s communique for spurring “public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation” into the Trump campaign’s contacts...
- 5/1/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court battle has turned into one of the most contentious nominations in our nation’s history. President Trump’s nominee has been accused of past sexual assaults and of being dishonest before the Senate.
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
Despite testimony by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote on September 28th. Following an unaccountably incomplete investigation by the FBI, Kavanaugh’s nomination cleared a key procedural hurdle, setting up a final vote this weekend.
On Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-me) delivered...
- 10/5/2018
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Margaret Flowers, Green Party candidate for the U.S. in Maryland, interrupted the debate between Democratic Representative Chris Van Hollen and Republican Deligate Kathy Szeliga at the University of Baltimore. Flowers was excluded from the debate after missing 15 percent of the polling threshold needed to participate. “You say you’re a public university, and you want to educate the […]
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- 10/28/2016
- by Sean Fahey
- Uinterview
Chris Matthews' wife and former D.C. news anchor Kathleen Matthews is considering running for Rep. Chris Van Hollen's congressional seat, according to Politico. Van Hollen announced Wednesday that he plans to run for the Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Mikulski, who said she would not seek re-election in 2016. Read More Chris Matthews Signs New Long-Term Deal with MSNBC (Exclusive) Kathleen Matthews and her MSNBC-anchor husband live in Chevy Chase, Md., the D.C. suburb in Van Hollen's congressional district. Kathleen Matthews spent 25 years as a news anchor for Washington, D.C., ABC affiliate
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- 3/5/2015
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Appearing on MSNBC on Thursday to talk about President Barack Obama’s position on ongoing budget negotiations, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-md) was asked by anchor Chris Jansing about the revelations surrounding Hillary Clinton’s “hit list” in which he was included. Van Hollen said that the list which singles out Democrats that did not support Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, presuming it truly exists, was a “total mystery.”...
- 1/13/2014
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-md) was pressed on Wednesday by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell to explain how the White House was not aware that families of veterans killed in action would be unable to access their death benefits during government shutdown. Van Hollen insisted this is another “unintended consequence” of the shutdown which is now law and being enforced by the president.
- 10/9/2013
- by Noah Rothman
- Mediaite - TV
On Monday morning's edition of CNN's Starting Point, prominent Obama surrogate Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-md) blasted the Bush-era members of Republican nominee Mitt Romney's foreign policy team who are trying to score political points over the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11 of this year. Citing a report in the Wall Street Journal suggesting it was the CIA feeding the Obama administration incorrect information, host Soledad O'Brien asked if such an intelligence failure reflects on the Obama administration. Rep. Van Hollen replied that such an attack was "ironic," given the number of Romney advisers "who were part of what was probably the greatest intelligence failure we've ever seen, which were the attacks of September 11th, 2001."...
- 10/22/2012
- by Tommy Christopher
- Mediaite - TV
Gene Sperling is White House point man for what may be the most delicate negotiations of the Obama presidency. Lloyd Grove reports on the latest turns in the debt-ceiling drama.
Gene Sperling-a key White House player in the bipartisan negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling-is a devotee of the iron fist/velvet glove school of politics.
As President Obama's top economic adviser, he had a hand in the recent presidential speech that trashed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan as a savage attack on old folks, college students, disabled kids and sick people, as well as an obscene gift to millionaires and billionaires.
Sperling loved that speech.
Ryan, not so much. An invited guest who sat in the front row at George Washington University during the speech, the congressman was at first surprised, then angry as he listened to Obama demonizing him and...
Gene Sperling-a key White House player in the bipartisan negotiations to raise the federal debt ceiling-is a devotee of the iron fist/velvet glove school of politics.
As President Obama's top economic adviser, he had a hand in the recent presidential speech that trashed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's deficit reduction plan as a savage attack on old folks, college students, disabled kids and sick people, as well as an obscene gift to millionaires and billionaires.
Sperling loved that speech.
Ryan, not so much. An invited guest who sat in the front row at George Washington University during the speech, the congressman was at first surprised, then angry as he listened to Obama demonizing him and...
- 5/19/2011
- by Lloyd Grove
- The Daily Beast
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