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In a televised address, Netanyahu said the attacks were continuing at “full force” and would “take time.“ Israel “wants to levy a heavy price” on the Hamas militant group, he said, flanked by his defense minister and political rival,
Benny Gantz, in a show of unity. The Israeli air assault early Sunday was the deadliest single attack since heavy fighting broke out between Israel and Hamas nearly a week ago, marking the worst fighting since the devastating 2014 war in Gaza (The Associated Press).
Netanyahu defended Israel’s decision to destroy a 12-story building in Gaza occupied for 15 years by The Associated Press bureau as well as Al Jazeera and other news media, claiming the United States shared intelligence showing that Hamas operated in the same building. When asked to verify any such intelligence sharing, the Biden administration told The Intercept, “No comment.”
“I’m encouraged that there s room to have a compromise on a bipartisan bill that’s solid and significant and a means by which to pay for it without dropping all of the burden on middle class and working class people, Biden added. The Hill’s Brett Samuels has more here.
The prospects: The issue of how to pay for the eventual package remains one of the biggest roadblocks to getting an infrastructure deal done. Still, Biden has remained optimistic even as the White House says it wants to see progress by Memorial Day. I want to make it clear, Biden told MSNBC. I want to get a bipartisan deal on as much as we can get a bipartisan deal on. And that means roads, bridges, broadband, all infrastructure.
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THE BIG DEAL Job openings jump to record high of 8.1 million: The number of open jobs in the U.S. reached a record high of 8.1 million in March, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.
Job openings rose by 597,000 in March, an increase of 5.3 percent, to the highest level since the Labor Department began tracking the data in December 2000.
The largest gains came in leisure and hospitality (185,000), public education (155,000) and arts, entertainment and recreation (81,000).
The number of hires stayed even at roughly 6 million in March, a month when the U.S. added 770,000 jobs, according to revised totals from the April employment report. Layoffs also declined to a record low of 1.5 million in March.