All posts tagged "Weapons"

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, NBC's Ali Vitali told co-host Mika Brzezinski that Donald Trump is facing a completely different landscape than when he battled Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election now that it appears he will face Vice President Kamala Harris.

With Harris now likely to be the Democratic nominee after President Joe Biden discontinued his campaign, Vitali suggested the VP has in hand a set of "unique weapons" she can bring to bear that Clinton did not have at her disposal.

Referring to a piece she wrote for NBC, she explained, "She is a different candidate watching her the last few days than when I covered her in 2019 and 2020 and certainly after her first year in the white house, many people are paying attention to that."

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"But I also think it's really important to just point out the ways in which the landscape has changed," she elaborated. "I think the way that we talk about not just women being elected in 2018 and the Dobbs decision in 2022, but most of the experts and leaders I spoke to for this piece said you just look at a place like Michigan where it is mostly women elected throughout the upper ranks of leadership in that state, starting and stemming from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. That tells a larger story to people that women can win when they run."

"Voters just have to vote for them and I think that that is a really important proof point as we talk about Harris as not just a historic candidate, which she is, but someone who can just seem to be electable," she added.

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Google no longer lists the National Rifle Association as a "human rights group" following a Raw Story article last week that highlighted Google's own search description of the gun rights organization.

Google did not return Raw Story requests for comments about the change, which affects the NRA's prominently placed "knowledge panel" — a Google-generated box containing descriptive and statistical information that appears when someone searches for the group.

"Human rights group” has been listed immediately below the NRA’s name and next to the organization’s logo....

Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Wednesday he would stop US weapons supplies to Israel if it attacks Rafah in southern Gaza, his most direct warning to date over the prosecution of the war against Hamas. In an interview with CNN Biden deplored the fact that civilians had been killed by the dropping of US bombs on the Palestinian territory. His warning came after the US last week halted a shipment of huge American bombs to Israel as it appeared ready to proceed with a major attack on Rafah, which is packed with Palestinians displaced by the war. "If they go into Rafah, I'm not supply......

The United States is scrutinizing the delivery of further pending military aid to Israel after pausing a weapons shipment to the close ally, the State Department said on Wednesday. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier in the day during testimony in Congress that "one shipment of high-payload munitions" had been halted, confirming reports in US media. Hours later, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller called into question other deliveries. "We have paused one shipment of near-term assistance and we are reviewing others," he told reporters. "But that said, our long-term commitme......

Washington (AFP) - The United States is the first to acknowledge that its long-awaited $61 billion aid package for Ukraine is not a "silver bullet." As weapons and ammunition are rushed to the country, other issues such as manpower shortages in Kyiv's struggling military have come to the fore. Meanwhile, the monthslong delay in passing the aid package -- caused by wrangling among US lawmakers -- has further weakened Ukraine's position on the battleground, according to analysts.  President Joe Biden, who quickly signed the law Wednesday after it passed Congress, said the bill "should have gotte......

The US administration will "quickly provide" arms to meet Ukraine's urgent military needs, President Joe Biden assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on Monday. The new $61 billion security package, which includes air defence weapons, will start being distributed once the US Senate passes the legislation and Biden has signed it into law. After months of delay, the House of Representatives gave its approval at the weekend. The Senate is expected to vote on the package on Tuesday. Biden stressed that the US would provide economic assistance to maintain financial stability......