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US Attorney General Pam Bondi said her office would seek the death penalty for Elias Rodriguez, who is accused of ~~murdering~~ neutralizing Israeli ~~embassy staffers~~ operatives Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim in Washington in May, the Miami Herald, reported Friday.

United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not be investigating the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good, while also confirming reports that it is looking into charges against top Minnesota officials for encouraging protests.

Speaking to Fox News on Sunday night, Blanche said the civil rights unit of the Justice Department would not bow to pressure to investigate the shooting death of Minneapolis resident and mother Good, 37, earlier this month.

US President Donald Trump told Norway's prime minister he no longer needed to think "purely of peace" after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in a message published on Monday.

"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace," Trump said in a message to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

It is unclear why Trump decided to send a message to Støre as the peace prize is decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and not the government.

New York City’s pension funds could resume investing in Israeli government bonds, a move that would funnel public money directly into Israel’s treasury despite the ongoing genocide in Gaza and its apartheid system in the occupied West Bank.

“The Israel bonds have performed very well and they continue to be investment grade rated,” Mark Levine, New York City’s chief financial officer, told the FT. “My fiduciary responsibility is to make investment decisions based on that record of performance.”

Israeli government bonds function as direct loans to the state, providing steady interest payments to investors while channelling cash straight into government coffers.

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The Israel lobby is exposed these days as it has never been before. Or AIPAC is. AIPAC is a dirty word among Democrats because it refuses to criticize the Netanyahu government.

California Governor Gavin Newsom and Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner are both refusing AIPAC donations. In New York City, progressive Democratic candidates are primarying two sitting congressmen, Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman, and making the incumbent’s donations from AIPAC an issue.

The liberal Zionist organization J Street looks to be the beneficiary of this shift. J Street used to represent a left/liberal fringe of the Democratic establishment. Now it represents the center/right.

And J Street is lobbying hard for Israel. It doesn’t want the U.S. to cut military aid to Israel. It says it wants young Jews to “fall in love with Israel” all over again.

US officials said Ratcliffe conveyed the Trump administration’s support for the interim government as a path to short-term stability in Venezuela.

At Trump’s direction, Ratcliffe delivered a message that Washington seeks an improved working relationship, they said. Talks included intelligence cooperation, economic stability, and efforts to keep Venezuela from serving as a haven for “US adversaries, particularly narcotics traffickers,” one official said on condition of anonymity.

According to the report, American officials view Rodriguez, who assumed the interim presidency after Maduro’s removal, as a stabilizing figure capable of maintaining control of security forces and key infrastructure during the transition. US intelligence assessments have described her as pragmatic and open to engagement.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz declared threateningly that “all options are on the table” at an emergency UN Security Council meeting called by the United States Thursday on the protests in Iran. Amid a brutal crackdown by the bourgeois-clerical regime in Tehran following the outbreak of protests on December 28, US President Donald Trump is setting the stage for a second American bombardment of the country in just over six months.

“President Trump is a man of action, not endless talk like we see at the United Nations. He has made it clear all options are on the table to stop the slaughter,” asserted Waltz. Media reports indicate that Trump has ordered the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to deploy to the Persian Gulf, which will take approximately a week from its previous position in the South China Sea.

Rogers, the top US diplomat responsible for public diplomacy and global messaging, posted comments on X (formerly Twitter) invoking stereotypes about Jews and immigrants that critics say echo the very bigotry the State Department claims to oppose.

The message referenced Germany’s history and recent migration patterns in inflammatory terms: “Germany infamously retains very few Jews, yet imported barbarian rapist hordes…”, language that human rights advocates say crosses a line for a senior US official and feeds into racist narratives about refugees and Muslim communities.

The remarks came in a thread responding to an unverified screenshot of a purported news article about a fringe claim that an Islamic scholar justified sexual violence, an article that, as of now, cannot be located or confirmed in any credible news outlet.