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The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Americans can abide. And yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his ultranationalist allies in government have defied American calls for more restraint and humanitarian help.

The U.S. must remove investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms from the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement and other trade deals in the region, nearly 50 House Democrats said last week. In a March 21 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a group of 47 House lawmakers called for the officials to work with CAFTA-DR partners to remove the agreement’s ISDS mechanism, arguing it facilitates “harmful corporate overreach in emerging economies.”

“History will prove Ken Paxton is a corrupt, sophisticated criminal. History will prove vouchers are simply an expensive entitlement program for the wealthy and a get rich scheme for voucher vendors. History will prove Governor Greg Abbott is a liar." In the Weatherford newspaper Rep. Glenn Rogers, who avoided badmouthing Gov. Greg Abbott while Abbott was attacking him during the campaign, wrote:

House Democrats opened an investigation of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, examining whether the company implemented adequate safeguards to prevent Russia from deploying its Starlink satellite internet service in its war against Ukraine.

Leaders of several humanitarian organizations on Tuesday sharply denounced the United States for vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, criticizing the country for not doing more to use its international influence to prevent further death and destruction.

Debating immigration laws in Washington is so fundamentally toxic that Congress hasn’t made major changes to dealing with the border in decades. And it might not for some time.

Senator James Lankford, the primary Republican negotiator on the Senate’s recently revealed border deal, is running out of patience with the rest of his party.