The Latest Breaking News from the White House

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to visit North Korea amid weapons supply claims

The White House believes more than 1,000 containers of equipment and ammunition have been sent to Russia from North Korea

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2023

Russia's foreign minister will visit North Korea amid claims of weapons supplied to Moscow

Russia says its foreign minister will visit North Korea this week, days after the United States claimed Pyongyang has delivered munitions and military equipment to Russia for use in the fighting in Ukraine

The Independent UK · Oct 16, 2023

Aid flights land in Egypt amid efforts to open safe corridors into Gaza

No agreement by Saturday night on how to bring aid to trapped Palestinians before Israel’s expected ground assault

The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2023

Jim Jordan is a conservative hellraiser in the House. Now he’s Trump’s top choice for speaker

Eric Garcia chronicles how the Ohio Republican, once called a ‘legislative terrorist’ who helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election, is now trying to replace Kevin McCarthy after Steve Scalise bows out

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2023

White House warns Israel crisis is stretching its ability to support Ukraine: ‘Running out of runway’

Biden administration moving with ‘sense of alacrity’ as John Kirby says aid won’t be ‘indefinite’

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2023

‘We were not consulted’: Native Americans fight lithium mine on site of 1865 massacre

Indigenous groups say huge project in northern Nevada threatens environmental, cultural and historical destruction

The Guardian - US · Oct 13, 2023

Biden awards $7 billion for 'clean hydrogen' hubs across the country to help replace fossil fuels

The Biden administration has selected clean-energy projects from Pennsylvania to California for a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel, a key component of President Joe Biden’s agenda to slow climate change

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2023

U.S. and Qatar agree to prevent disbursal of recently unfrozen Iranian funds

The move follows the deadly attacks by Hamas on Israel and Republican criticism of the White House deal with Iran, where $6 billion was unfrozen in exchange for the release of 5 detained Americans.

WEKU · Oct 13, 2023

Pritzker, as Biden campaign surrogate, slams Trump’s praise of Hezbollah

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, one of three Jewish governors in the country, released a strongly worded critique of the former president on behalf of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign.

Chicago Sun-Times · Oct 12, 2023

Israeli official hits back at Trump’s ‘shameful’ comments in wake of Hamas attack

‘We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts,’ says communications minister

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023