Good morning, it's Wednesday, May. 15, and we're covering bill to force continued arms sales to Israel, highest level of assaults in 10 years, MLB debut despite mediocre showing, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here. | | American Fact of the Day! | New Mexico: New Mexico is home to one of the closest presidential votes in recent history, when during the Bush v. Gore 2000 election it came down to 366 votes, even less than Florida despite popular belief. |
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| | Breaking Updates | | Senator Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Force Continued Arms Sales to Israel | Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill to force the Biden administration to resume providing arms and munitions to Israel in support of their ongoing war against Hamas terrorists. The bill already has a counterpart bill in the House of Representatives.
Cotton introduced a Senate version of a bill currently circulating in the House that would bypass the Biden administration's pause in arms sales to Israel, which the White House has been aggressively lobbying against. House Democrats in the narrowly controlled GOP House are fighting to kill the bill, and Cotton's Senate version is likely to initiate a similar fight in the upper chamber.
Like the House version, the bill would force the Biden administration to complete all scheduled arms deliveries to Israel and blow past a pause in key munitions that the White House says is necessary to force Israel into abandoning its planned incursion into the Gaza Strip's Rafah neighborhood. Cotton's bill would also cancel the salaries of any Biden administration official at the Pentagon or State Department who engages in any effort to withhold arms shipments to Israel.
The bill is cosponored by 20 of Cotton's GOP colleagues, including Sens. Joni Ernst (R., Iowa), Rick Scott (R., Fla.), Ted Budd (R., N.C.), Roger Marshall (R., Kan.), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R., Miss.), among others.
The Biden administration, of course, is adamantly opposed to the bill. Military matters are normally within the purview of the Executive branch, although the House of Representatives holds the purse strings. The White House is lobbying against the House version of the arms bill, with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre telling reporters: "We strongly, strongly oppose attempts to constrain the president's ability to deploy a U.S. security assistance consistent with U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives."
It's unlikely this bill will go anywhere in the Democrat-controlled Senate. But as this is an election year (Senator Cotton is not up for re-election until 2026) and support for Israel is a contentious issue, it's likely Senate Republicans will push the matter as far as possible. | Read more updates here |
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| | FBI Says Law Enforcement Seeing Highest Level of Assaults in 10 Years As Criminals Are Emboldened | As the crime rate soars across every large American city, so has something else: The number of police officers and other law enforcement officials being assaulted by criminals is also skyrocketing. According to data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, there were 79,091 law enforcement officers assaulted. That is the highest number reported for one single year in the past ten years.
While it is a nationwide problem, the southern part of the country seems to be where it has been the most prevalent. Even worse than assaults, from 2014 to 2023, the South had the largest number of police officers killed in the line of duty. However, in 2023, that percentage decreased by 38 percent from 32 deaths in 2022 down to 20 deaths in 2023. That number was the lowest number since 2015, when police officer deaths numbered 15.
The incidents and the weapons used were varied. In 2023, most attacks on officers occurred during calls to respond to simple assaults. In those instances, there were 6,783 cases of officers being assaulted. Right behind that were responses to drugs and narcotics calls, in which 4,879 officers were assaulted. The lowest number of police officer assaults involved firearms, with 466 officers injured or assaulted. However, that number, according to the FBI, is also a 10-year high.
Couple these grim statistics with blue city and state politicians who undermine police departments, but when an officer is killed in the line of duty, show up at the funeral. Both New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson were recently asked to stay away from the funerals of fallen officers because rank-and-file officers know that these officials do not have the backs of police. | Read more updates here |
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| | American Sports & Culture
|  | MLB may have to act on strike-stealing after catcher's gruesome injury: 'Classic risk-reward' | Willson Contreras broke his arm getting hit by a swing last week, shining a spotlight on the risk catchers are taking in the name of efficiency. |
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|  | Vikings sign sixth-round OT Walter Rouse | The Vikings signed another draft pick Tuesday. |
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|  | Paul Skenes lights up Pittsburgh in MLB debut despite "mediocre showing" | Baseball Bar-B-Cast | Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz discuss the undeniable energy in Pittsburgh during Paul Skenes' MLB debut, despite his mediocre showing results wise. |
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| | American Business & Markets
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| | American Politics | |  | Illegals make list of demands for FREE 'culturally appropriate food,' housing, and immigration lawyers | Blaze Media | A group of immigrants who have set up camp in Denver, Colorado, have been ordered to vacate their makeshift homes under a bridge and near train tracks — but they're refusing to budge. |
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|  | Wyoming sheriff's bold billboard recruiting Denver officers out of liberal city creates stir | A new billboard erected in Denver aims to recruit sheriff's deputies to come to Wyoming, where "breaking the law is still illegal and cops are funded." |
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|  | Bookies Open Odds on Which Politicians Will Join Trump at Courthouse | Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) have high chances of appearing in court with former President Donald Trump. |
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