The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday evening that would block Boeing’s planned sale of aircraft to Iran Air — a transaction that has drawn sharp criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.), joined by Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), pushed for two amendments to the Financial Services...

The Hillary Clinton presidential campaign publicly condemned a son of one her close advisers after he denounced the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel after Wiesel’s death. Max Blumenthal, an anti-Zionist activist and son of longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, tweeted less than an hour after Wiesel’s passing: “Elie Wiesel went from a victim of war...

Democrats approved a draft platform that affirms their party’s support for Israel on Saturday, rejecting an amendment that would have included language critical of the Jewish state, The Times of Israel reported. A third of those on the platform’s drafting committee were appointed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (D – Vt.), who has tacitly...

The Obama administration’s push for more companies to do business with Iran is inappropriate and concerning, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said Thursday. “It is Iran’s challenge to demonstrate that their economy is transparent enough, legitimate enough, secure enough, to attract foreign investment. I don’t think it’s our job to...

Leading Republican congressmen have warned Boeing Corporation not to proceed with a rumored deal to sell approximately 100 planes to Iran, pointing out that aircraft could be used to boost the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities throughout the Middle East, Fox News reported on Friday. “American companies should not be complicit in weaponizing...

David Hazony’s attempt to enter the mind of the president is gripping all the way through, well-structured, and as persuasive as it’s possible to be given the limited evidence and the space constraints. But it is not the only plausible way to interpret the evidence. I have no theory about...