Israeli airstrikes have pounded locations across the Gaza Strip, including parts of the south that Israel had declared as safe zones.

Refusing to drop out, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan has brought the House speaker’s race to a stalemate.

President Joe Biden spoke today in Tel Aviv, Israel, reiterating support for the Israelis but also hammering on the need to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Biden called the actions of Hamas “pure unadulterated evil” and noted that such brutality “would have cut deep anywhere in the world, but it cuts deeper here in Israel.” The attack,” he said, “has brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by…millennia of antisemitism and the genocide of the Jewish people.” In the past, he said, the world watched and did nothing, but “[w]e will not stand by and do nothing again. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever.”

Loy Waldrop draws on lessons on appeasement from the WWII era and how they apply to votes by Tennessee's congressmen on aid to Ukraine.

"I admit that when my Medicare card arrived in the mail, I stood at the mailbox and reread my name a couple of times. I was astounded that the card was really for me."