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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for new elections in Israel on Thursday, harshly criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as an obstacle to peace.

Finding food, shelter, and medicine is nearly impossible for the 1.5 million people believed to be sheltering in Rafah, Gaza. Crystal Goomansingh speaks with a Canadian who helped deliver some aid to Gaza and says far more is needed. Crystal also explains why U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law a stopgap bill that will fund the federal government through early March and avert a partial government shutdown, the White House said on Friday. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap measure on Thursday, meant to give Congress a few more weeks to approve a US$1.59 trillion...

U.S. senate majority leader Chuck Schumer delivered a speech at the “March for Israel” in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, demanding Hamas militants let hostages ago, amid their ongoing conflict with Israel. “Let us not forget the evils of Hamas,” the politician said to a crowd of pro-Israel supporters.

Speaking in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, U.S. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer expressed concern about Senator Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of military almost 400 military nominees. Schumer stated that patience is “wearing thin” and that “we hope that the Republicans will get Tuberville to back off, but we will get it done.”

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate Prime, the wildly popular energy drink created by YouTube stars Logan Paul and KSI. Mike Armstrong explains why the beverage’s contents and marketing are under scrutiny; and what people are being urged to do if they spot the drink being...

Many people in Toronto are on edge after a series of violent attacks in public places, including a stray bullet that killed a mother of two, and the stabbing of a man inside a subway car. The reaction from people concerned about the city’s safety, including an anti-violence advocate who used to be a gang...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer held a press conference on Sunday to comment on the debt ceiling in New York City. Schumer commended President Joe Biden and the White House administration for coming up with “a sensible compromise under the most difficult of circumstances” when coming up with a deal on the debt ceiling....

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed the critical debt ceiling and spending legislation that will ensure the country avoids a federal default, sending the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk and ending one of the most stressful periods of congressional dealmaking in recent memory. “We’ve saved the country from the scourge of default,” Senate Majority...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that all Senators from both parties could be briefed as early as Tuesday on China and the spy balloon that was shot down Saturday. Schumer said all Senators will be briefed by the Department of Defense on their Office of Net Assessment (ONA) involving where the U.S....

When asked about ongoing discussions regarding an infrastructure bill and a multi-trillion-dollar social spending bill, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that the goal is to get both passed in the next month, overcoming divisions between moderate and progressive Democrats.

U.S. Congress took a big step toward avoiding a partial federal shutdown on Thursday when the Senate passed a bill to keep the government funded through Dec. 3. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said he will ask the Senate to consider a House-passed bill raising the nation’s debt limit “as early as next week.”

Following a Republican police reform bill failing in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the bill “lacked substance.”

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Friday urged for federal funds to help New York’s Broadway after it has been closed for more than six months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Schumer proposed a “Save Our Stages” bill that would be folded into the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Sunday that Trump’s nomination of Amy Barrett for the Supreme Court is “troubling news” for millions of Americans with pre-existing conditions and for seniors relying on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as she once said it’s “wrongly decided,” and that the healthcare system would be “dramatically hurt”...

On Wednesday, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to tout a deal reached on a $3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill. He called it transformational and the most significant legislation for family support since the New Deal.

U.S. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s use of hydroxychloroquine as a preventative medicine for the coronavirus was “astonishingly reckless,” and said the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has pointed out the risks the drug has. Studies have found it was not helpful in treating COVID-19.

After a day of violent, pro-Donald Trump riots in Washington D.C. that resulted in the Capitol buildings being stormed, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday called those demonstrating “domestic terrorists,” saying that they “desecrated” the house of U.S. democracy.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sunday encouraged Americans to “confront” violence against the Asian-American community, calling such discrimination “despicable.” Schumer also said the U.S. “mourns with the families” of the eight people, six of them being of Asian descent, killed when a gunman opened fire at three Atlanta-area massage parlours earlier in the week.

On the heels of the New York COVID-19 vaccine supercharge he detailed Friday, U.S. House Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called on the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to deploy a $1-billion blitz to educate, conduct outreach and build more confidence in the effective COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday in New York City.