Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas demanded Hamas disarm, relinquish power and release the hostages. The Palestinian leader said that by letting the hostages go, Hamas would ‘shut down’ Israel’s ‘excuses’ to continue the war that began after the terror group’s massacre on Oct. 7, 2023. ‘The first priority is to stop the war of extermination in Gaza. It must ...
Deborah Lipstadt, who served as special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism during much of the Biden administration, has indicated that she is ‘pleased’ the Trump administration is seeking to tackle antisemitism. ‘I’m pleased that they’re addressing it, because that’s what I did for the past three years, which was to really push the Biden Administration to seriously address it. ...
Michael F. Cannon On October 24 and 25, 2025, the Cato Institute will host its third Cato Health Policy Workshop, a paper workshop for master’s and PhD candidates on topics relating to health policy. The workshop seeks to encourage participants to approach health policy questions from a market-based perspective. Through a competitive selection process, Cato will offer up to twelve scholars ...
Dominik Lett While Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has rightfully drawn attention to some pretty silly and wasteful spending, it has overpromised and underdelivered on verifiable spending cuts. This should not be a surprise. Substantial deficit reduction by unilateral executive decree was never a realistic outcome, given that Congress holds the power of the purse. Nonetheless, the original ...
Vice President JD Vance told reporters in India that the U.S. had offered Russia and Ukraine ‘a very explicit proposal’ to end the war that has been ongoing for over three years: make a deal or risk the U.S. walking away. ‘We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either ...
President Donald Trump this week said he is ‘very’ optimistic that Ukraine and Russia will enter into some sort of deal in the coming days, but security experts are still sounding the alarm that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not want peace. A feeling of geopolitical whiplash is surrounding Washington after the Trump administration last week said it would abandon ...
President Donald Trump’s administration is firing or reassigning over 450 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a larger push to eliminate ‘environmental justice’ programs. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the employee moves on Monday, saying 280 staffers were being fired, and 175 others would be reassigned. The cut roles were in the Office of Environmental Justice and ...
Rachel Reeves faces mounting pressure to either raise taxes or announce deeper spending cuts after official figures revealed that UK borrowing for the last financial year exceeded forecasts by nearly £15 billion. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that public sector borrowing in the 12 months to March reached £151.9 billion—£14.6 billion more than forecast by the Office for ...
British Steel has officially withdrawn plans to make up to 2,700 workers at its Scunthorpe plant redundant, following an emergency intervention by the UK government earlier this month that secured the company’s immediate future. The move ends a period of intense uncertainty for employees at the Lincolnshire steelworks, after Chinese-owned parent company Jingye announced its intention to close the site’s ...
The UK’s office market may have reached a turning point, with vacancy rates falling for the first time since the start of the pandemic. New data reveals a modest but symbolically significant drop in the amount of empty office space, suggesting that businesses are beginning to reclaim the desks they once deserted. According to commercial property data provider CoStar, the ...