Monica Alba

After days of silence from President Joe Biden on the eruption of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses nationwide, his decision to speak out Thursday served as an acknowledgement that it was unavoidable to stay quiet for much longer.

Joe Biden’s advisers believe that tensions over U.S. support for Israel in the war in Gaza spreading through college campuses will soon flame out.

WASHINGTON — Senior Biden administration officials are increasingly concerned about where protests on college campuses over the war in the Gaza Strip will expand to next and view a potential cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas as perhaps the only development that could quell some of the political blowback over President Joe Biden’s handling of the conflict.

The Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago.

House Republicans vowed to use their powers to put pressure on American universities to protect their Jewish students and crack down on anti-Gaza war protests.

Israel fears that the International Criminal Court (ICC) may issue arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and senior military officials as early as this week, an Israeli official told NBC News.

Over the past several weeks, Biden has privately expressed confidence that he’s going to win the November election, according to three people familiar with his comments, in a shift from the frustration with the status of his campaign that he was venting to aides just a couple months ago.

The White House is seizing on remarks by Mitch McConnell that Trump resisted accepting any bipartisan compromise to toughen border security laws.

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will represent the Biden administration at a memorial Thursday for the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza earlier this month, according to a White House official.

Pro-Palestinian protesters are looking to puncture the festive bubble this weekend surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

The Senate voted to advance the $95 billion aid package that provides critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Gaza and a provision to ban TikTok in the U.S.