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  La solida alleanza tra il Partito Repubblicano e Israele, ribadita più volte durante il secondo mandato del Presidente Donald Trump, affonda le sue radici nell'ascesa del cristianesimo conservatore come forza politica, avvenuta oltre mezzo secolo fa. Il rapporto tra il reverendo Billy Graham e il presidente Richard Nixon contribuì a portare la politica evangelica alla Casa Bianca. Graham in seguito si pentì del suo coinvolgimento politico, soprattutto dopo il Watergate, ma l'opportunità rimase. Alla fine degli anni '70, la Moral Majority di Jerry Falwell mobilitò gli evangelici conservatori, trasformandoli in un influente elettorato repubblicano che Ronald Reagan incorporò nella sua coalizione conservatrice. Israele divenne sempre più centrale in questa identità, con molti evangelici che interpretavano il sostegno allo Stato ebraico da una prospettiva biblica piuttosto che puramente strategica. Leader come il telepredicatore John Hagee e Christians United for Israel costr...

  US President Joe Biden is the eighth president to face an impeachment inquiry [Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters] The Republican-led United States House of Representatives  has voted  to formally authorise its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Up until this point, the House had not had enough votes to legitimise the ongoing inquiry, but on Wednesday, lawmakers voted 221-212 in favour, with every Republican voting for it and every member of Biden’s Democratic Party against. The decision to hold a vote came as Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and his team faced growing pressure to demonstrate progress in what has become a nearly yearlong probe into the business dealings of Biden’s family members. The vote took place hours after his son Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena by failing to appear for a private deposition at the House of Representatives. He refused to testify behind closed doors, saying he would testify only in public because he feared his words woul...

  Russia is intensifying its campaign against civilian targets in Ukraine [Valery Melnikov/Reuters] Uncertainty is growing over Western backing for Ukraine amid Russia’s intensifying campaign to knock out the country’s energy infrastructure. The White House has warned the United States Congress that funds designated for providing aid to Ukraine would run out by the end of the year, in a letter made public on Monday. The European Union is also facing difficulties in agreeing on a new 50 billion euro ($54bn) lifeline for Kyiv. “I want to be clear: without congressional action, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to procure more weapons and equipment for Ukraine,” the director of the US Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, wrote in a letter to House Speaker  Mike Johnson . In the face of an upcoming harsh winter of intensifying Russian assaults on civilian infrastructure, the lack of funding could mean defeat for Ukraine, warned the budget director. “I...