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Former President Donald Trump chastised Pennsylvania Republican Senate contender David McCormick over his ties to China and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday. Standing in the rain at a rally in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to bolster TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz, who is locked in a tight race with McCormick, the former president panned McCormick for not being "MAGA" enough. WATCH LIVE: TRUMP AND JD VANCE SPEAK AT CAMPAIGN RALLY FOR DR. OZ IN PENNSYLVANIA"David is totally controlled. This is the opponent backed by Mitch McConnell, the old crow, the old broken-down crow. Mitch McConnell is the least popular politician...

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday in the case of a man who stormed into a Jewish center two years ago and shot six women, killing one, as he ranted against Israel and the Iraq war. Jurors had indicated in questions posed to the judge that they were hopelessly deadlocked and struggling to determine whether Naveed Haq, 32, was not guilty by reason of insanity, as he claimed. King County Superior Court Judge Paris Kallas ended the jury's deliberations in their eighth day. The jurors reached a partial verdict on only one of the 15 counts against Haq, finding him...

What was the significance of Yaser Arafat’s speech yesterday to the Palestine Legislative Council? Reading the Arabic news services this morning, you would be hard-pressed to come to any clear conclusions. Was it a breakthrough, or was it, in the words of one senior Israeli military figure cited this morning, BS? In order to understand better the contents of Arafat’s speech, I turned to two Arabic sources. The first is Al-Ayyam, the official mouthpiece of the PNA in Ramallah; the second, An-Nahar, an independent Lebanese newspaper. The two sources differ tremendously regarding the emphasis they place on the different aspects...