Middle East latest: A long-awaited Gaza ceasefire starts after a delay
A ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect on Sunday following an almost three-hour delay after Hamas was late to name the three hostage it plans to release.
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Three hostages arrive in Israel from Gaza as fragile ceasefire passes first hurdle
The first three hostages released from Gaza have arrived in Israel, the military announced Sunday, hours after the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold. Their mothers were waiting to meet them. Footage showed the three women walking to Red Cross vehicles in Gaza City, surrounded by a crowd that swelled into the thousands…
‘Maybe they shouldn’t be’: Jordan cornered on CNN over pardons for violent J6 rioters
MAGA Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) was forced to scramble Sunday when CNN’s Dana Bash pressed him about whether violent January 6th rioters should be pardoned by incoming President Donald Trump. Bash began, “One of the many things that the president-elect promised that he would do what was, and is, to pardon many of the…
‘You’re not done?’ CNN’s Bash presses Jim Jordan over plan to pursue Jack Smith
Ex special counsel Jack Smith may have dropped his cases against President-elect Donald Trump, but Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) claimed he wasn’t done yet with the special counsel. After Trump won the presidency in November, Jordan’s Oversight committee sent a letter to the Justice Department telling Smith to “preserve your records” related to the Trump…
Trump floats plan to revive TikTok: ‘Americans deserve to see our exciting inauguration!’
President-elect Donald Trump apparently wants MAGA fans to watch Monday’s inauguration on TikTok so much that he promised “no liability” to any company who gets the social media platform back up and running before he takes office. TikTok, owned by Chinese company Bytedance, officially went dark on Sunday after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lawmakers’…
Companies risk billions in fines if they believe Trump’s TikTok ‘verbal promises’: report
President-elect Donald Trump took steps to restore TikTok that legal experts claimed don’t “follow the law” set out by Congress when they implemented a ban on the social media platform for national security reasons. Trump posted to TruthSocial Sunday, “I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on…
The love story of Gaël Monfils and Elina Svitolina, the latest tennis power couple
Tennis players Gaël Monfils and Elina Svitolina have been engaged in a real life love-match, having been romantically linked since 2019, their love life just as tumultuous as the tennis matches they both play in. Both the French Monfils, 38, and Ukrainian Svitolina, 30, have made their way Down Under for the Australian Open 2025….
‘Crisis’: Insider says Trump threw ‘unswerving ally’ into ‘complete flux’ with a call
Donald Trump threw an “unswerving American ally” into “complete flux” with a mere phone call, according to someone who was viewing the events from inside the foreign nation. Trump’s proposals related to the attempted acquisition of Greenland came to a head recently, when Trump reportedly held a call with Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister….
‘He was a total failure’: Conservative expert blasts Trump’s record on key issue
Donald Trump’s record on immigration is that of “failure,” according to Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier. Bier, who has previously commented on Trump’s family separation policy during the first Trump administration, took to social media on Saturday to make a prediction about Trump’s deportation scheme roll-out. “Trump will lie about who he is deporting,”…