Trump claims Biden’s pardons for Jan. 6 committee are ‘void.’ Legal experts disagree

President Donald Trump is taking aim at one of his predecessor’s final acts in office: preemptive pardons for members of the House Jan. 6 select committee. In a late-night social media post, Trump claimed without evidence President Joe Biden used an autopen to sign the pardons and so he considered them “hereby declared VOID, VACANT, … Read more

Israel hits Gaza with ‘extensive strikes,’ killing dozens and ending ceasefire

Israel hit Gaza with a series of “extensive strikes” overnight Tuesday, vowing to open the “gates of hell” because Hamas has not released the remaining hostages. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israel Defense Forces is targeting Hamas terrorists throughout the region and will act with “increasing military force” … Read more

60 feet below in a 3-foot-wide tomb: Freed Israeli hostage details conditions of Hamas captivity: Reporter’s notebook

Editor’s note: This reporting contains graphic descriptions. GAZA — The fighting may have stopped, but not Hamas’ digging. Every day from 5 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week, the team that guarded Israeli hostage Tal Shoham used a type of electric demolition hammer to carve additional miles of tunnel from the soft Gaza clay, … Read more

Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil describes night of his arrest in new court filing

The night federal agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil on Columbia University’s campus, the Palestinian activist feared he would be immediately deported, according to a sworn declaration included in a new court filing by his attorneys. Khalil, a leader of the encampment protests at Columbia last spring, was detained on March 8. He was taken from his … Read more