The House on Thursday voted to censure Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump’s address to Congress.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had Green removed from the chamber during the early moments of Trump’s speech Tuesday night. Green stood and shouted at Trump after the Republican president said the Nov. 5 election had delivered a governing mandate not seen for many decades.
The resolution against Green was approved in a mostly party-line vote of 224-198.
Hamas on Thursday brushed off Trump’s latest threat and reiterated that it will only free the remaining Israeli hostages in exchange for a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
The group accused Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to back out of the ceasefire agreement they reached in January.
The agreement calls for negotiations over a second phase in which the hostages would be released in exchange for more Palestinian prisoners, a permanent ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
The first phase of the ceasefire ended on Saturday.
U.S. stocks are resuming their slide Thursday due to underperformance by the market’s AI giants.
AI companies have been setting records on Wall Street for years. But those soaring performances have caused critics to point out that prices have grown too expensive.
They’re also facing threats as Chinese companies develop their own AI offerings, with DeepSeek famously saying it didn’t need to use Nvidia’s most expensive chips.
Kevin Lynch can be reached at lync1832@stthomas.edu.
