Steve Witkoff, who serves as President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, announced that major strides have been made in the ongoing discussions with Hamas, with just one major hurdle left to overcome. He conveyed a hopeful outlook that the matter could be resolved soon.
“We had four disagreements, and now only one remains. I hope we will be able to reach an agreement by the end of the week,” Witkoff shared.
The primary obstacle still under negotiation relates to the positioning of Israeli Defense Forces during the proposed ceasefire. As per Witkoff, the deal on the table includes a two-month truce, during which Hamas would release ten living hostages as well as the remains of nine others.

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President Trump didn’t hold back Tuesday when blasting Russian President Vladimir Putin, slamming him for his deceptive messaging while the war in Ukraine continues to inflict heavy casualties.
“A lot of people are dying and it should end,” the president told reporters during a Cabinet meeting. “We get a lot of [profanity] thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
Putin, now 72, has gone out of his way in recent months to praise Trump, age 79, trying to charm him with over-the-top gestures — including commissioning a portrait by a top Russian painter. Putin even relayed to Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff that he lit a candle in church after last year’s attempt on Trump’s life.

One of the most hated airport security procedures is finally being phased out, nearly 20 years after it was first implemented. As of this week, the Transport Security Administration (TSA) will allow airline passengers to keep their shoes on as they go through screening lanes at airports across the country for the first time since 2006. The news was announced to TSA employees in an internal memo earlier this week, with the policy expected to roll out at select airports as early as this Sunday. Previously, only passengers in the TSA PreCheck line were allowed to keep their shoes on.

Keith Siegel, who was held captive in Gaza for over a year, appeared before the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday to share the trauma he endured and draw attention to the plight of the remaining hostages still being held.
“I came here to talk about the difficulty there and to illustrate, as much as I can, the suffering of the 50 hostages still in Gaza,” Siegel said. “I was there for 484 days. They have been there for 641 days. It is very hard to describe in words the suffering they are enduring.”
Siegel was abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza and spent his captivity in Gaza alongside fellow hostage Omri Miran, who was taken from Kibbutz Nahal Oz and is the father of two children.

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An unknown individual used artificial intelligence to mimic the voice of Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a series of deceptive communications, according to a report from the Washington Post. The AI-generated voice was used to make phone calls and send messages to multiple high-ranking figures.
The impersonation allegedly targeted a U.S. state governor, a member of Congress, and three foreign ministers from different countries. These contacts reportedly occurred in June and were carried out through the messaging app Signal, where the impersonators created an account under the name “Marco.Rubio@state.gov.”

FLORIDA – President Donald Trump continues to expand his crypto-related offerings, this time with a planned exchange-traded fund tied to the p