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On Monday, all 20 living Israeli hostages were returned by Hamas, as the two sides carry out phase one of a peace deal backed by the Trump administration. Israel also released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners Monday as part of a ceasefire deal, marking a major milestone in the effort to end the fighting in...

Singer-songwriter John Legend says President Trump will need to stop the “dictator s‑‑‑” if he wants to win the Nobel Peace Prize next year. In a video posted Sunday to Instagram, the award-winning artist addressed the president, who has openly sought the prize, saying he would try “positive reinforcement” to get Trump to change his...

GOP strategist Karl Rove predicted Saturday that deploying National Guard troops to Democratic-led cities, over the objections of their respective states’ governors, will ultimately be a losing issue for President Trump. In an interview on Fox News’s “The Journal Editorial Report,” Rove pointed to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll showing 58 percent of U.S. adults say...

The shift in American culture towards justifying violence based on grievance, rather than condemning it, is leading to a weakening of accountability and a corrosion of individual and societal growth.

Israel said it had released more than 1,900 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as part of a ceasefire deal that also secured the release of the 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza. The exchange marked the first phase of the Middle East peace deal that President Trump announced last week. The moment marked a major...

The MAGA Republican said tariffs might be getting in the way of President Trump’s agenda, by driving up costs for manufacturers. 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is touting an effort by the Texas Military Department to remove an unknown number of the state’s National Guard troops deployed to Chicago after a photo of seemingly overweight service members arriving in Illinois went viral. “Standards are back at The [Department of War],” Hegseth posted to social media Monday alongside...

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has announced the recall of a frozen spinach product that was distributed nationwide.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Monday the government shutdown is on its way to being one of the longest in history unless Democrats accept the House-passed, GOP-crafted stopgap bill to reopen the government. “We're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history, unless Democrats dropped their partisan demands and passed a clean, no-strings-attached...

Northwestern, as with many other universities, is a victim of Trump’s unrelenting campaign, without much choice in the matter.  

Actress Arianne Zucker has reached a settlement with the producers of “Days of Our Lives” and former executive producer Albert Alarr in a lawsuit she filed in February 2024 alleging sexual harassment and workplace retaliation, according to the Los Angeles Times.

While there has been much coverage regarding Americans’ decline in support for Israel and anti-Israel bias, the data simply does not corroborate that. 

Vice President Vance warned on Sunday that cuts to the federal workforce will only get “deeper” as the government shutdown drags on. In an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” host Maria Bartiromo asked the vice president about President Trump describing the moment as an “opportunity” and about how significant the cuts would be....

President Trump on Monday urged Israeli leaders to turn the page from warfare to peace, telling the Knesset that Israel had won “all that they can by force of arms” and expressing optimism about the region’s future. Trump addressed the Israeli parliament during a visit to the Middle East to mark the release of hostages and...