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Details emerge about freed Israeli hostages' medical conditions, what they endured in captivity

Since the release of the last 20 living Israeli hostages in Gaza, details have started to emerge about their medical conditions and the horrors they endured while in captivity. Similar to previously released hostages, those who returned on Monday appeared thin, suggesting they were not adequately fed. Avinatan Or, who …

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Ardently pro-Israel Dem Sen John Fetterman congratulates Trump for 'historic peace plan'

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a staunch supporter of Israel, congratulated President Donald Trump on Wednesday shortly after the commander in chief announced in a Truth Social post that Hamas and Israel agreed to phase one of a peace plan. Fetterman said that he and the president are both …

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Watch Trump and France's Macron share weirdly long 26-second marathon handshake

U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron clasped hands during an oddly lengthy handshake that lasted for around 26 seconds. The handshake, which began in a traditional form, morphed into an arm-wrestling-type grip part of the way through. The bizarrely long greeting occurred this week as world leaders …

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Republican labels Mamdani as 'little more than a Muslim terrorist,' advocates yanking citizenship, deportation

Republican Rep. Randy Fine of Florida lambasted New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani as “little more than a Muslim terrorist,” asserting that the Empire State assemblymember should be stripped of his citizenship and deported. “This is nauseating. Mamdani is little more than a Muslim terrorist. It’s a disgrace …

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Pope’s top diplomat blasts Israel’s Gaza offensive as ‘ongoing massacre,’ condemns Hamas attacks

The Vatican’s top diplomat on Monday condemned both Hamas’ “inhuman and indefensible” Oct. 7 attacks and Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza, warning that even legitimate self-defense cannot justify the destruction of a “largely defenseless population.” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state and one of Pope Leo XIV’s advisers, …

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Trump thanks group representing families of hostages for Nobel Peace Prize appeal

President Donald Trump issued a letter to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 massacre, thanking them for their appeal to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. “Since the abhorrent events of October 7, 2023, that saw families ripped apart, children torn from their parents’ …

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Trump celebrates peace in the Middle East after signing Gaza deal: 'Achieved the impossible'

President Donald Trump celebrated “peace in the Middle East” after he signed the historic peace agreement that ended two years of fighting in Gaza. “At long last, we have peace in the Middle East, and it’s a very simple expression, peace in the Middle East,” Trump said during remarks at …

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Fetterman optimistic Trump’s Gaza peace deal could bring ‘enduring peace’ to Middle East

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is optimistic that President Donald Trump’s newly-brokered Gaza peace deal could bring “a chance for enduring peace” to the Middle East, praising the first-phase agreement Thursday and crediting Trump’s leadership in ending the two-year conflict between Israel and Hamas. “I think it’s an incredibly comprehensive kind …

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Trump slams Time magazine cover photo as ‘worst of all time’ after Gaza peace deal story

President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace deal is earning him rare praise from critics, but he’s blasting Time magazine for what he claimed was an unflattering picture on its latest cover. “Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time,” Trump …

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Trump starts week in Middle East, overseeing historic peace agreement

President Donald Trump will spend the first part of the week in the Middle East to oversee a historic peace deal between Israel and Hamas, a landmark agreement expected to end the two-year war in Gaza and bring home the remaining hostages. Before boarding Air Force One, Trump told reporters …

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