In a letter to U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) advocated more aggressive measures to regain security for Jewish students on American college campuses in the wake of the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in Israel.
“For those international students who defied university orders, and police instruction, in favor of acting on pro-terrorist views, this should result in immediate expulsion from their host institution and our generous country,” Rubio wrote on May 8. “No questions asked.”
He wrote, “Let me be clear: espousing support for a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization is grounds for the termination of a visa and immediate removal from our country.”

The National Archives and the genealogy company Ancestry are teaming up to digitize and put online tens of millions of records from the Archives’ vast holdings.
The project, announced Thursday, will take place over five years. In the first phase, about 65.5 million records that had previously not been available online will appear on Ancestry’s website, the organizations said in a statement.
The newly available records will include military documents from World War II and the Korean War era, as well as immigration and naturalization reports, their statement said.
The data is expected to begin appearing in about two years, Pamela Wright, the Archives’ chief innovation officer, said in a video interview Tuesday.

The IDF says operations in the eastern part of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip has resulted in the deaths of 50 gunmen, while 150,000 Palestinians have evacuated the area. The military operation, which was launched on Monday, has also led to the discovery of 10 tunnel shafts, which are currently being prepared for demolition. […]

Veterans Affairs leaders improperly handed out almost $11 million in bonuses to more than 180 senior executives last year, with several taking home more than $100,000, a new investigation has found.
The bonuses came from funds that Congress earmarked to recruit and keep staff needed to process billions of dollars in new veterans benefits – not to reward top officials in Washington.

Agudath Israel of America released the following statement condemning the Biden administration’s threat to stop supplying arms to Israel over the impending invasion of Rafah, the last remaining Hamas stronghold in Gaza: “Agudath Israel of America is deeply troubled by the White House’s unprecedented decision to cease supplying certain arms to a country’s whose security […]

Cracks are showing in one of the main pillars keeping the economy out of a recession: resilient spending by U.S. households. Consumer goods giants from PepsiCo to Kraft Heinz have described recently how the combination of high inflation and higher interest rates is hurting their lower-income customers. It’s the culmination of everything getting more expensive […]

“Call it what it is: a U.S. arms embargo against Israel,” the Wall Street Journal‘s Editorial Board wrote on Wednesday evening. “That’s the astonishing story this week as the Biden Administration confirms it is blocking the delivery of weapons to its main ally in the Middle East. The Administration would like to focus on the […]