U.S. and Chinese officials said on Monday they had reached a deal to roll back most of their recent tariffs and call a 90-day truce in their trade war to allow for more talks on resolving their trade disputes.
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Hamas said the last living American hostage in Gaza, Edan Alexander, will be released as part of efforts to establish a ceasefire, reopen crossings into Israeli-blockaded territory and delivery of aid.
Hamas released a video Saturday showing hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana, who appeared under duress.
The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.
President Donald Trump said he will make a decision about how the U.S. government will refer to the body of water now commonly known as the Persian Gulf when he visits Arab states next week.
Last month, Israeli police and Education Ministry officials ordered six schools in east Jerusalem to close within 30 days.
Bison can be aggressive when people don’t give them enough space, park officials said.
The Republican-led House passed a bill Thursday that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name.
Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.
A 77-year-old man from Germany has died after falling on a hike at Arches National Park, authorities said.
No Israeli officials have reached out to the Bohbot family to say the number of hostages believed to be alive had changed.
Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.
Officials say Turkey’s intelligence service thwarted a remote attack using pagers in Lebanon, days after similar attacks by Israel killed dozens, including members of the Hezbollah terrorist group.
The strikes came hours before President Donald Trump said the United States would stop striking the Houthis, who he said had “capitulated” and agreed to stop targeting shipping in the Red Sea.
The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service and could lead to the expulsion of experienced, decorated officers.