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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 Tennessee school is accused of changing rules mid-year to nix exemptions for religious holidays.
“Governments that fail to protect Jewish communities must be held accountable,” the U.S. special envoy said.
The changes don’t address the problem of a “defense industrial base” that is “too small, too high-bound, too fragile,” Jonathan Ruhe, of JINSA, told JNS.
The U.S.-Israel FUTURES Act aims at “advancing joint investments such as emerging technologies, defense industrial base cooperation, artificial intelligence and biotechnology initiatives,” said Sen. Ted Budd, a co-sponsor.
The German foreign minister said the special rapporteur for the Palestinians has become “untenable in her position.”
The legislators asked the Trump administration to stop “returning people who have a well-founded fear of persecution by the brutal Iranian regime.”
“Allowing this conduct to go unaddressed would signal tolerance for ideologies the United States has fought wars to defeat,” the lawmakers wrote.
António Guterres sends the same letter to every country, the spokesman said, and “it doesn’t change the secretary-general’s view of the crackdown that we saw in Iran.”