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On Saturday, the United States military continued to target and respond to attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports from on board the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.
South Carolina is once again handing President Biden a ballot box victory. The Associated Press on Saturday projected that the president would win South Carolina’s 2024 Democratic presidential primary, with the news service making its call 23 minutes after the polls closed in the Palmetto State at 7 p.m. ET. The quick projection came as … Read more
President set to win first Democratic primary handily as challengers Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson are expected to come distant second and third South Carolina’s Democratic primary may be Joe Biden’s to lose, but the state nonetheless has the full attention of the president and his allies. Biden isn’t in South Carolina today, but visited … Read more
Follow live as the state’s Democratic voters choose their preferred candidate for the US elections See our South Carolina primary live blog for the latest updates The South Carolina Democratic primary takes place on 3 February, and was chosen by the Democratic National Committee as the first election contest in the 2024 election year. Joe … Read more
The crucial task of ensuring a fair vote falls to a work crew that must be well prepared, even when few people show up See our South Carolina primary live blog for the latest updates Two old men sat in the dark on a bench outside Dunston elementary school in North Charleston, South Carolina, waiting … Read more
A senior administration official said in a statement saying the strikes in Yemen are “directly in response to the actions by the Iranian-backed Houthis. They are unrelated to the action the United States took in response to the continued attacks on our troops and facilities in Iraq and Syria.”
Joint operation to further disable Iran-backed militias conducted after attacks on US and international interests amid war in Gaza Middle East crisis – live updates The United States and Britain struck at least 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly … Read more
Several countries including the U.S. and U.K. involved in the strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen released a multi-nation statement on the attack . The statement says the strikes are intended to “disrupt and degrade the capabilities that the Houthis use” and “are in response to a series of illegal, dangerous, and destabilizing Houthi actions.”
The U.S. and U.K. launched airstrikes Saturday targeting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen in response to the group’s continued attacks in the Red Sea, the countries confirmed in a joint statement.
Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing for the package without addressing aid to Ukraine or security for the US-Mexico border The US House of Representatives plans to vote next week to advance $17.6bn in military aid to Israel without any accompanying spending cuts or assistance for Ukraine, according to Mike Johnson, the chamber’s speaker. Johnson announced … Read more
