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• Beto O’Rourke, who has run a pretty traditional campaign thus far (to little success) is switching things up. He plans to abandon his focus on early-voting states, instead embracing the freewheeling style that embodied his Senate run and “taking the fight to Donald Trump.” • The president thinks that …

Donald Trump has urged Israel to follow through on its apparent decision to bar Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from visiting the country. The US president’s comments came just before it was announced that the Israeli government had officially decided not to give the two congresswomen permission to …

As a woman of colour who wears a headscarf, I am more wary than ever of life in America. Since Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar was elected to congress last year, Trump has been making racist attacks and inciting violence against her at every opportunity. I have watched the president of the …

Israel’s decision on Thursday to bar two American Democratic congresswomen, Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, from visiting the country rests on a law passed just two years ago. Aimed at Israel’s critics, the law has been used to deny entry to outspoken foreign supporters of …

“I feel very secure in this, that anyone who comes with open ears, open eyes and an open mind will walk away with an understanding, just as all these members here do, that this bond is unbreakable,” the House minority leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, told reporters in Jerusalem …

Many Israelis and Jewish leaders have also expressed discomfort with the idea that American officials could be denied entry because of their beliefs or criticism of Israel, and it was not immediately clear why Israel’s considerations had changed. But many here pointed to a recent report by Axios saying that …

Republican Senator Rand Paul said he would offer to buy Congresswoman Ilhan Omar a ticket to Somalia so she will “appreciate America more”. His remarks echoed Donald Trump‘s racist statement that the Ms Omar and three other congresswomen of colour should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they …