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In his fourth speech to Congress, a record for a foreign leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel attempted to change the narrative about the fallout from the war in Gaza. Patrick Kingsley, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, explains how Netanyahu used the speech to shift the focus to Iran and the threat it poses to Israel.
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 Reuters TVDonald Trump's former White House physician insisted Friday he is certain the former president was hit by a bullet during his assassination attempt two weeks ago.
"There is absolutely no evidence that it was anything other than a bullet," Ronny Jackson, a Republican U.S. House representative from Texas who is no longer a fully licensed physician, said in a letter posted on Truth Social.
Jackson slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray, who told Congress this week that he could not conclude whether Trump was hit or grazed by a bullet, or by flying shrapnel.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to defend the ongoing war on Gaza as thousands of people outside protested his appearance. The speech came two months after Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for committing war crimes in Gaza. Over 100 Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, skipped the speech, but those in attendance gave Netanyahu numerous standing ovations as he painted a distorted picture of what's happening in Gaza, making no mention of efforts to reach a ceasefire or the more than 16,000 Palestinian children killed in Israel's assault. Foreign policy analyst Phyllis Bennis says the speech was "horrifying," but says it showed that "support for Israel has become a thoroughly partisan issue." Bennis adds that peace activists in the U.S. have built a broad consensus against the war on Gaza and military support for Israel, and says Vice President Kamala Harris has an opportunity to chart a new path on Middle East policy as she runs for president.
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An aide to Vice President Kamala Harris said she would be speaking to one of the nation's oldest Black sororities at the time of the Israeli prime minister's address, but would meet with him this week.
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