But overall, the bill represents a compromise between the parties. It implements many of Trump‘s executive orders and proposals on eliminating diversity and inclusion efforts in the military and grants emergency military powers at the U.S. border with Mexico. It also enhances congressional oversight of the Department of Defense, repeals several years-old war authorizations and seeks to overhaul how the Pentagon purchases weapons as the U.S. tries to outpace China in developing the next generation of military technology.
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Sweeping US defense bill passes, with Ukraine, Venezuela provisions defying Trump
And it has a provision to withhold a chunk of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth‘s travel budget if he does not provide Congress with unedited videos of military strikes on boats in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific. The Trump administration has said the strikes are directed at Venezuelan drug-traffickers.
The Senate vote came a day after Trump ordered a blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, his latest move to increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro‘s government.
It repeals the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force (AUMFs) against Iraq, an attempt to reassert Congress‘ role in deciding to send troops into combat.
European Commission presents solutions to support Ukraine‘s financial needs: EU borrowing, ‚reparation loan‘
The document notes that as Russia „continues to show no signs of readiness to commit to a just and sustainable peace, the pressure on Ukraine‘s resources continues to grow, making continued EU support even more important.“
EU unveils 2 options for getting $90 billion to Ukraine in coming years
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled two options for financing Ukraine over the next two years, as Kyiv approaches an existential cash crunch.
Speaking at a press conference in Brussels, von der Leyen said that under the first option, European countries would jointly borrow and lend the money to Ukraine. All 27 member states would have to be on board for the plan to go ahead.
EU vows to keep supporting Ukraine with cash and weapons as peace talks continue
(November 24, 2025)
European Council President Antonio Costa pledged on Monday that the European Union will keep on supporting Ukraine, as he hailed „new momentum“ in peace negotiations to end the war triggered by Russia‘s invasion.
„The European Union is committed to continue providing President Zelenskiy with all the support he needs – diplomatic support, military support, economic support,“ he told reporters in the Angolan capital Luanda, after chairing a meeting of EU leaders on Ukraine on the sidelines of a summit with the African Union.
House demands Epstein financial records from JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and US Virgin Islands
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform issued a series of subpoenas Tuesday for some of Epstein’s financial records.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the committee, issued subpoenas to J.P. Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank and requested additional documents from U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Gordon Rhea.
HRF Forces EU Bank to Face Its Complicity in Israeli War Crimes
Brussels- 4 November 2025
On 20 June 2025, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) filed a formal complaint with the European Investment Bank’s Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM), urging immediate action to suspend and investigate the EIB’s ongoing financial cooperation with Israeli institutions blacklisted by the United Nations for their involvement in illegal settlements. These investments, amounting to over €1 billion, include support for Bank Leumi, Electra, and other entities named in the UN’s 2020 database for facilitating and profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise — a core component of the apartheid regime imposed on the Palestinian people.
We are now pleased to announce that this complaint has progressed to the formal assessment phase within the EIB-CM. This development is not merely procedural — it is a political and legal milestone, signaling that a European institution is being forced to reckon with its complicity in grave breaches of international law.
Money, mercenaries and mayhem: How Israel and UAE are investing in regional chaos
Israeli and Emirati online networks have worked in tandem to shape narratives around Sudan and Gaza, targeting Sudan’s army even as RSF massacres mounted in El Fasher.
On the defence-industrial side, firms are expanding inside the UAE, tightening a two-way flow of money, tech, and intelligence. Israeli defence firm Controp is opening a UAE subsidiary making it the latest emblem of this deepening security embrace.
All the while, Emirati rulers boast of their „development model“ as a „shining example for the region“: authoritarian, anti-political, drenched in consumerism and spectacle.
It is a façade of progress built on repression. A mirage of modernity concealing a machinery of tyranny.
Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Sudan and South Sudan
(October 30, 2025)
The United States condemns in the strongest terms the horrific violence occurring in El Fasher. The situation is both tragic and appalling.
We have said this before, and we will say it again – the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have committed genocide.
The RSF has and continues to systematically kill men and boys – even infants – and deliberately target women and children for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence. These crimes are ethnically motivated.
RSF militias are targeting civilians as they flee, killing innocent people escaping conflict, and preventing those who remain from accessing life-saving supplies.
The United States condemns these abhorrent atrocities in no uncertain terms. Those responsible should be held accountable, including through sanctions, as noted by the Sudan Sanctions Panel of Experts in its most recent report.
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Colleagues, ending wars is a priority for President Trump, and the United States remains committed to working with our partners and other stakeholders to resolve the crisis.
Together, we are focused on securing an immediate humanitarian truce, halting external support, and advancing a transition to civilian governance.
Exclusive: Inside the UAE‘s secret Sudan war operation at Somalia‘s Bosaso
“They’re frequent and the logistics are transferred immediately to another aircraft that is on standby and is destined for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan through the neighbouring countries,” said Abdullahi, a senior Puntland Maritime Police Force (PMPF) commander at Bosaso Airport, who spoke to Middle East Eye using a different name for security reasons.
According to flight tracking data, satellite imagery, multiple local sources, and US and regional diplomats, the origin of these planes and their cargo is clear: the United Arab Emirates.
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As MEE reported recently, Bosaso is connected to a ring of bases built and expanded by the UAE across the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea. The bases, on the islands of Mayun, Abd al-Kuri, Samhah; at the Somaliland port of Berbera and the Yemeni port of Mocha, are all on territory nominally controlled not by the UAE but its allies or clients.
UK quietly hosts talks on Gaza reconstruction
The Palestinian Authority was represented along with officials from countries such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Germany and Italy, the UK prime minister‘s office said.
Officials from the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development were also attending to support what Falconer called an Arab Reconstruction Plan.
Cross-Tabs: September 2025 Times/Siena National Poll of Registered Voters
(September 29, 2025)
(Ask if Israel not taking enough precautions, combined with answers to previous question) Do you think Israel is intentionally or unintentionally killing civilians?
Intentionally 40%
Unintentionally 16%
[VOL] Don’t know/Refused 5%
[PREVIOUSLY] Is taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties 25%
[PREVIOUSLY] Don‘t know/Refused 14%
Forty percent of US voters think Israel is intentionally killing civilians in Gaza
Forty percent of registered US voters think Israel is intentionally killing civilians in its war on Gaza, according to a national poll published Tuesday.
When asked if Israel was taking enough precautions to avoid civilian casualties, 62 percent said they were not, with just 25 percent saying Israel was taking enough precautions.
More than half of registered US voters disapprove of Israel’s war, and 59 percent said they believe that Israel should stop its „military campaign“ even if Hamas has not been fully „eliminated“. Only 27 percent said the campaign should continue.
Majority of Americans oppose economic, military support to Israel: Poll
A majority of Americans oppose sending additional economic and military support to Israel, a new NYT/Siena College poll finds. The New York Times Lisa Lerer discusses.
Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds
(September 29, 2025)
Disapproval of the war appears to have prompted a striking reassessment by American voters of their broader sympathies in the decades-old conflict in the region, with slightly more voters siding with Palestinians over Israelis for the first time since The Times began asking voters about their sympathies in 1998.
EU science grants are funding Israeli military tech, data shows
(August 30, 2025)
The Horizon Europe program, described by the EU as ‘a scientific research initiative to develop a sustainable and livable society in Europe,’ has awarded around 475 million euros to 348 Israeli start-ups and research projects since October 2023, many of which are run by former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers.
In 2024, the EU awarded grants of €220m to 179 companies and initiatives run by Israelis. The scale of this funding, coming in a year when the world’s pre-eminent genocide experts all declared Israel was committing a genocide, a year in which entire cities were wiped out and tens of thousands of civilians murdered, is staggering.
In the same year Israel was also the third largest recipient, behind France and Germany, of ‘accelerator’ grants, a separate component of the Horizon program intended to support small and medium-sized companies working to improve life in Europe.
Israel moves EU approval for diaspora bond to Luxembourg from Ireland amid Gaza protests
In a letter to a lawmaker published by the central bank, Governor Gabriel Makhlouf said the approval for Israel‘s programme would be transferred to Luxembourg upon the expiry of the prior year‘s prospectus on Monday.
The new prospectus published on the website of Israel Bonds, the country‘s borrowing vehicle for diaspora bonds, said its programme for the next year had been approved by Luxembourg.
Central Bank of Ireland confirms it will no longer approve sale of Israeli ‘war bonds’
“The Central Bank’s approval of the 2024 prospectus will expire today, 1 September 2025. Accordingly, from 2 September 2025, it will not be possible for the state of Israel to offer bonds under the 2024 prospectus,” he said, referring to an Israeli bond prospectus issued on in September 2024
“In accordance with the provisions of the prospectus regulation concerning home member states and the transfer of approval (Article 20(8)), the competent authority of Luxembourg approved a new prospectus for the state of Israel today, 1 September 2025 (the 2025 prospectus).
Germany ready to pay for two Patriots, Norway for one, other countries also ready to help, waiting for manufacturer‘s readiness
(July 10, 2025)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced agreements with Norway and Germany on the supply of three air defense systems and the manufacturer‘s readiness.
„We have a positive dialogue with President Trump on the Patriot systems. My request concerns 10 Patriot systems and the corresponding volume of missiles for these systems. Germany is ready to pay – I have agreements with them – two systems. Norway is ready to pay – I have bilateral agreements with the Prime Minister – one system.“ When we receive a clear answer from the manufacturer and from the various US options regarding dates, of course, we understand the cost, then other European partners will join in.
Designed To Enact Suffering
The Senate‘s barely-there approval – fuck Shady Vance – of Trump‘s heinous 900-page bill represents the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in U.S. history along with the largest cut to Medicaid and food assistance, all in the obscene name of (partly) funding a $975 billion tax break for the already richest 1%. The bill, „a tipping point between normality and fascism,“ also pours over $170.7 billion into „a campaign of extermination against immigrants that evokes the greatest human rights atrocities of the past,“ funding the hiring of vastly more Nazi thugs to terrorize, humiliate and put in cages millions of brown people who do much of this country‘s work.
It will kick about 16 million people off health insurance by cutting over $1 trillion from Medicaid, because who needs health insurance. It will throw millions of poor families, veterans, the elderly and disabled off SNAP by cutting $285 billion in food assistance, because who needs food. It will cut funding to rural hospitals, nursing homes, student loans, wind and solar energy – electric bills will soar 30% – costing millions of jobs and adding almost $4 trillion to the national debt, to be paid by our children and grandchildren, one of many excellent reasons it‘s said to be the most unpopular legislation since passage of the economically disastrous Embargo Act of 1807.
Harvard is an Anti-Semitic, Far Left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the World that want to rip our Country apart.
The place is a Liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE. It is truly horrific! Now, since our filings began, they act like they are all “American Apple Pie.” Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!
Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties
In a statement, one of the sons, Eric Trump, confirmed that the Trump Organization intended to cut ties to Mr. Burck over his decision to represent Harvard.
“I view it as a conflict, and I will be moving in a different direction,” he said.
Mr. Burck declined to comment.
Harvard files lawsuit against Trump administration
(April 21, 2025)
Harvard filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, arguing its freeze on research funding is unconstitutional and “flatly unlawful” and calling on the court to restore more than $2.2 billion in research dollars.
The filing, in U.S. District Court in Boston, requests that the court vacate and set aside the funding freeze to allow previously approved funding to flow and halt administration efforts to freeze current or deny future funding without engaging in procedures contained in federal law.
Netanyahu aides to be indicted for financial offenses in Qatargate scandal, sources say
Sources told Walla that the investigation will focus on cellphones that the police seized from Urich, which contain deleted text messages that link him to the classified documents affair, with an indictment filed against Feldstein and NCO Ari Rosenfeld for leaking a classified document to Feldstein. From there, it was publicized in the German daily Bild.
Qatari lobbyist reportedly used WhatsApp group to coordinate with Netanyahu aides
(April 2, 2025)
After Israeli businessman Gil Birger revealed that Qatari lobbyist Jay Footlik had asked him to pay Netanyahu aide Eli Feldstein for his work on behalf of Qatar, Feldstein insisted that the funds were actually for his work for the Prime Minister’s Office.
However, Channel 12 reveals the existence of a WhatsApp group between Footlik, Feldstein and Yisrael Einhorn — Urich’s partner at a PR firm who also served as a campaign adviser for Netanyahu.
Feldstein, Urich give police conflicting testimonies
Feldstein, who formerly worked as Netanyahu‘s military spokesperson, claimed he received a salary from Israeli businessman Gil Birger. According to Feldstein, the payment was arranged through Netanyahu‘s close adviser, Urich.
Urich, however, denied the claim outright, stating he does not know Birger and has never spoken with him.
Birger, for his part, has said that he transferred the funds on behalf of Jay Footlik, a lobbyist for Qatar, citing tax considerations as the motive.
What is the ‚Qatargate‘ scandal roiling Israel?
Who are the suspects?
Yonatan Urich, who has been working closely with Netanyahu for most of the past decade, started out as the social media manager for the prime minister‘s Likud party.
Urich also co-owns a media consulting firm called Perception with Yisrael Einhorn, who has also worked with Netanyahu.
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Eli Feldstein is already under investigation for leaking classified documents to journalists during the short time he worked unofficially as the prime minister‘s military affairs spokesman.
Jerusalem Post Editor Questioned in Expanding Qatargate Scandal
Authorities suspect the pair of contact with a foreign agent, bribery, money laundering, fraud, and breach of trust. The court extended their detention until Thursday, with Judge Menachem Mizrahi citing “reasonable suspicion” of wrongdoing and the risk of obstruction.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, who was questioned under caution but is not currently a suspect, dismissed the investigation as politically driven.
Businessman Gil Birger questioned by police under caution in Qatargate scandal
Businessman Gil Birger has been questioned by police under caution in the Qatargate scandal, Hebrew media reports, after a gag order on the matter was lifted.
In recordings aired last month, the Israeli businessman based in the Gulf said he transferred money from a Qatar-employed US lobbyist to a top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Bar says firing him a ‘fundamentally invalid’ attempt to undermine Shin Bet as it probes Qatar’s influence on PM’s office
Dismissing the Shin Bet head during the investigation, Bar argues, is tainted with “extraneous considerations and a personal and institutional conflict of interest that could not be more serious.” It risks jeopardizing the investigation, he says, which is a danger to the country’s security.
He also pushes for a state commission of inquiry into October 7: “The urgent national need for such an investigation cannot be subordinated to the personal considerations of those involved in the matter, as it is the only way to ensure that such a multi-system failure will not occur again.”