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Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim

Mike Wagenheim is a Washington-based correspondent for JNS, primarily covering the U.S. State Department and Congress. He is the senior U.S. correspondent at the Israel-based i24NEWS TV network.

The proposed sale reportedly includes $3.8 billion for 30 AH-64 Apache helicopters and $1.9 billion for 3,250 infantry fighting vehicles.
Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon introduced a resolution faulting Israel and Hamas for the lack of peace, calling on the U.S. president to “recognize a demilitarized state of Palestine.”
The New York Republican is asking the U.S. attorney general to investigate an alleged campaign by the medical relief group to attack a U.S.-backed aid agency.
The U.N. council “opted for a performative action, designed to draw a veto, that extends Hamas terrorists,” according to Morgan Ortagus, a U.S. diplomat.
JNS got a rare look at closely-held U.N. information, which critics say is used to claim Jewish attacks against Arabs in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem are growing.
An immigration judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil’s deportation to Syria or Algeria, agreeing with the Trump administration that the Columbia graduate’s failure to include pertinent information on his green card application is grounds for revocation.
The department told JNS that it is committed to “reinvigorating” enforcement of a law requiring that U.S. schools report their foreign funding.
The father of Malki Roth, a victim of the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria suicide bombing in Jerusalem, says the logic of protecting Jordan’s monarchical head of state kept “everybody off the king’s tail.”