The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote late Tuesday after the House had approved the package Saturday. Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation.
University of Minnesota Police quickly dismantled an encampment by students who were protesting the University’s ties to Israel amid the war. Several students were arrested.
Protest organizers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus led a class walkout Tuesday afternoon to try to reestablish an encampment that authorities cleared from Northrop Mall earlier Tuesday.
Columbia University canceled in-person classes and police arrested dozens of students at New York University and Yale as tensions over Israel's war with Hamas continue to grow on U.S. college campuses.
The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investigation has found.
The head of Israel's military intelligence directorate resigned on Monday over the failures surrounding Hamas' unprecedented Oct. 7 attack, the deadliest assault in Israel's history.
A naval chief petty officer who served on a Japan-based destroyer was found guilty of sharing classified information with a foreign government, the Navy's investigative agency said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal discusses on NPR's All Things Considered how further U.S. aid would make a difference on the front lines, and the state of the war in general.
A senior U.S. military official confirmed to NPR that the Israeli military had conducted missile strikes against Iran. But little else is known about the extent of the strikes and any potential damage, as both Israel and Iran appeared to downplay the attack on Friday morning.
Several students involved in the protest said they were also suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat.