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Quote:Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, has died at age 89.
The Context
Joan Kennedy was married to the Massachusetts Democratic senator from 1958 through 1982 and was known as the last surviving Camelot Kennedy. Her public discussion of her mental health struggles drew attention to issues of mental health and addiction.
What to Know
Joan Kennedy was born in September 1936 to a family living in the New York City suburb of Bronxville. She went on to study at Manhattanville College and Lesley University and was known as a pianist who would often open her husband’s campaign rallies with her music, reported the Associated Press.
The couple met in 1957 at a dedication ceremony for Kathleen Kennedy, who had died in a plane crash, and they got married just about a year later in November 1958.
Two years later, in 1960, her brother-in-law, John F. Kennedy, would be elected president, and Ted would be elected to the Senate in 1962.
Their lives would be upended in 1963, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Texas.
Senator Kennedy faced a scandal during his time in office in 1969, when a car he was driving crashed off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. A female passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed, and Kennedy was charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Joan Kennedy suffered a miscarriage shortly after the incident, the AP reported.
She stood by her husband despite the scandal, but had been separated by 1980, when Senator Kennedy sought to challenge incumbent President Jimmy Carter for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.
The couple ultimately divorced in 1983. She faced difficult times in the decades that followed, including arrests for drinking and driving and stays in alcohol treatment programs, according to the AP. She would speak candidly about her challenges, bringing attention to issues of alcoholism. She was hospitalized in 2005 after being found passed out on a Boston sidewalk, and her son Ted Jr. obtained legal guardianship over her care.
The New York Times noted in its obituary that she was seen as a “survivor” and that those close to her rejected terms like “fragile” to describe her.
Quote:WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claimed Wednesday that the Antifa movement is “just as sophisticated” as Hamas, ISIS and MS-13 — as the Trump administration threatened to launch a crackdown on the far-left street fighters.
“This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA [Tren de Aragua], as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them,” Noem said at an Antifa-focused White House roundtable chaired by President Trump.
“They are just as dangerous. They have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we’ve dealt with.”
Noem made the claim after visiting Portland, Ore., earlier this week, where she observed from a rooftop a group of anti-ICE protesters, including a demonstrator in a large chicken costume.
Trump declared Antifa, a portmanteau of “anti-fascist,” a “domestic terrorist organization” on Sept. 22 and hosted administration officials and conservative journalists at the White House to discuss how to combat the movement, whose adherents often clash with law enforcement and right-wing counterprotesters.
Attorney General Pam Bondi pledged to “destroy” Antifa — describing it as a criminal organization rather than a decentralized network.
“Fighting crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It’s breaking down the organization brick by brick, just like we did with cartels,” she said.
“We’re going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa — destroy the entire organization from top to bottom,” Bondi added.
“We’re going to take them apart. Thanks to your bold leadership and the designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization, which is exactly what they are. Americans will no longer tolerate their unhinged violence,” the AG told the president.
Bondi did not identify purported organizational leaders whom she intends to target. Although there are some organized Antifa chapters, other panelists described autonomous groups operating in cities around the country.
Quote:International and domestic visitors in Washington, D.C., have shared with Newsweek their disappointment with the city feeling like a "ghost town" after they traveled to the nation's capital, hoping to explore.
"I just got here last night for a conference, so I'm just arriving and realizing I'm not going to be able to see anything," Sheila Soule, a visitor from Vermont, told Newsweek. "It's disappointing."
Why It Matters
As members of Congress have failed to reach an agreement to keep the federal government open, several notable D.C. attractions have been shuttered due to funding and staffing issues.
The shutdown has now extended for longer than a week, disrupting the lives of millions of federal workers. Health care subsidies have been the primary sticking point as the Trump administration and Democratic leaders in Congress have not been able to come up with a solution.
What To Know
Several popular museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, National Archives Museum, and The National Museum of the United States Army have closed due to a lack of funding.
Other attractions, like the Washington Monument, the United States Capitol Visitors Center and the U.S. National Arboretum, are also currently closed.
A North Carolina mother, who said she was meeting family traveling from the West Coast, explained to Newsweek that her relatives saved money to make the trip to the nation's capital and now they're left with a tough pill to swallow.
"Sorry you're not going to get to see the Declaration of Independence," she said.
Jen Wagner, a tourist from Pennsylvania, said, "I'm really frustrated, I don't see there's any reason for it. I mean the demolition of the core values of our society, it's devastating, it's sad."
Others traveled from outside the country, visiting from thousands of miles away and also expressed disappointment and frustration.
"It's a bit unfortunate," a traveler from Bangalore, India, told Newsweek, "I'll try to explore whatever is possible for me."
A South Korean tourist shared with Newsweek that she's upset by the closures, "I've been excited to visit a lot of museums in Washington, D.C."
For now, the Smithsonian museums remain open, but if the shutdown continues through Saturday, they will also close their doors. The National Zoo would also close during an extended shutdown.
The question remains whether travelers will start writing the capital off as a destination given the uncertainty of dealing with shuttered museums and popular attractions.
Destination DC, the official destination marketing organization for the nation's capital, has a full list of places that are still open for those who might remain interested in visiting a "ghost town."
What Happens Next
Only time will tell what sort of impact the shutdown will have on the tourism industry for the nation's capital.
Washington, D.C., set a record in 2024 by welcoming a whopping 27.2 million visitors, according to data provided by Destination DC.
Quote:Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a simple message to air traffic controllers as the government shutdown wreaks havoc on travel across the United States.
“I’m encouraging air traffic controllers to show up for work,” Duffy said on Wednesday during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.
Several major airports are experiencing staffing shortages as the shutdown leaves air traffic controllers putting in unpaid hours – leading to an uptick in workers calling out sick.
However, Duffy stressed the importance of air traffic controllers manning their posts.
“They need to go to their jobs,” he told Tapper. “They need to control the airspace.”
Duffy acknowledged that air traffic controllers could express some “rebellious” behavior over the current situation, but said they would be paid once the shutdown ends.
He also acknowledged the heightened stress they face.
“They are stressed out. They are wondering, how do they put food on the table? How do they pay their mortgages if their paycheck doesn’t come through?” Duffy said.
He also revealed the grave statistics of the spike in staffing-related flight delays in an interview with Fox News’ Will Cain.
“Historically, there’s about 5% of delays attributed to staffing issues in our towers,” Duffy said Wednesday.
“The last couple days, it’s been 53%.”
The Transportation Secretary doubled down on his call-out to airport staffers playing hooky to get back to work, while acknowledging their frustrations.
“They’re working six days a week. They’re keeping America operational, and they’re not guaranteed a paycheck. They’re frustrated by it, and so not coming into work,” he told Cain.
Federal employees considered essential are required to work through the government shutdown, but most will not be paid, including airport workers like TSA staff and air traffic controllers.
Quote:WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) rejected voting on a standalone bill to fund US military members’ salaries Wednesday, as the federal government shutdown entered its second week.
Johnson pointed out during a press conference that the seven-week stopgap funding measure passed by the House on Sept. 19 would have fully funded troops’ pay.
“We already had that vote,” the House speaker said. “Every Republican and at least one Democrat had the common sense to say, ‘Of course, we want the government to stay in operation. Of course, we want to pay our troops and our air traffic controllers and our Border Patrol agents, TSA, and everybody else.’”
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) was the only member of his party to break ranks and vote for full funding of the government until Nov. 21.
“House Democrats … are clamoring to get back here and have another vote because some of them want to get on record and say they’re for paying the troops,” Johnson also suggested Wednesday.
Last month, Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) proposed legislation guarenteeing service members would not be left short of money if the government shut down any time before the beginning of 2027.
“The President has made it clear: we must pay our troops,” Kiggans, whose district includes a sizable military population centered around Naval Station Norfolk, said in a statement on X.
“I’m urging the Speaker and our House leadership to immediately pass my bill to ensure our servicemembers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck while supporting their families, receive the pay they’ve earned.”
The next check for military members is scheduled to be sent Oct. 15, but the money will be delayed if the government isn’t reopened by then.
“They made that decision. The House is done. The ball is now in the Senate’s court. … It does us no good to be here dithering on show votes,” Johnson said.
Quote:WASHINGTON — They’ve gone from government shutdown to shout down.
Hudson Valley Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) got into an epic war of words with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) over his role in causing the partial government shutdown after catching him at the end of a Wednesday press conference.
Lawler had walked up to and called out Jeffries for not engaging in bipartisan negotiations with him to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits.
“Did your boss, Donald Trump, give you permission?” a smirking Jeffries snapped back as Lawler began confronting him in front of a group of reporters.
The Hudson Valley rep, who held up a copy of legislation to extend the ACA credits, denied that President Trump is his boss and recounted how Jeffries has repeatedly voted for spending patches in the past to avert government shutdowns.
“You’re making a show of this to make yourself relevant,” the Brooklyn Democrat sniped. “You’re embarrassing yourself right now.”
“It’s sad, you could sign onto this right now,” Lawler countered. “You have four Democrats on here. Why won’t you sign on?”
Democrats have repeatedly blocked a GOP-backed continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government funded through Nov. 21.
They’ve demanded that the GOP reverse Medicaid reform and extend the enhanced Obamacare subsidies that are set to expire by the end of the year, in exchange for breaking the Senate filibuster and allowing the CR to reopen the government.
Quote:WASHINGTON — Thousands of IRS employees will be furloughed as the partial government shutdown drags on, the tax-collecting agency notified employees on Wednesday.
The updated IRS Lapsed Appropriations Contingency Plan calls for 39,870 IRS employees, or 53.6% of staff, to be retained as the shutdown enters its second week.
Those who work through the shutdown will be paid with “non-expiring funds.”
Of the nearly 40,000 staffers being kept on, 24,470, work in the IRS’s Taxpayer Services division.
The agency’s initial contingency plan called for all employees to remain on the job for at least the first five business days of the shutdown, but did not specify what would happen should the funding lapse last beyond Oct. 7.
The furloughs are being implemented a week before the Oct. 15 deadline to file 2024 federal tax returns for Americans who were granted an extension.
The National Treasury Employees Union, a labor group that represents tens of thousands of IRS employees, said the public should expect processing delays because of the furloughs.
“Due to the government shutdown the American people lost access to many vital services provided by the IRS when the agency furloughed thousands of employees,” National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) said in a statement. “Expect increased wait times, backlogs and delays implementing tax law changes as the shutdown continues.”
“Taxpayers around the country will now have a much harder time getting the assistance they need, just as they get ready to file their extension returns due next week.”
The group criticized the “complete lack of planning” from the IRS that left tens of thousands of employees “in the dark about their work status until their supervisor informed them today.”
Quote:The State Department said Wednesday that it has fired a US diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
The dismissal is believed to be the first of its kind for violating a ban on such relationships that was introduced late last year under the Biden administration.
The Associated Press reported earlier this year that in the waning days of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidency, the State Department imposed a ban on all American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens.
Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesman, said in a statement that the diplomat in question was dismissed from the foreign service after President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reviewed the case and determined that he had “admitted concealing a romantic relationship with a Chinese national with known ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“Under Secretary Rubio’s leadership, we will maintain a zero-tolerance policy for any employee who is caught undermining our country’s national security,” Pigott said.
The statement did not identify the diplomat, but he and his girlfriend had been featured in a surreptitiously filmed video posted online by conservative firebrand James O’Keefe.
Quote:WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to greenlight a slew of challenges to election laws by political candidates — which could lead to massive impacts on the next presidential vote in 2028.
A majority of the high court seemed to side with Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.), who petitioned the court to allow his lawsuit challenging an Illinois law allowing mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day to be counted up to two weeks after polls close to move forward.
Bost’s case had been rejected by the lower courts, including the Chicago-based US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, which determined the lawmaker — who represents a deep-red district in Southern Illinois — lacked standing on the grounds that his lawsuit was speculative and showed no evidence of harm.
“What you’re sketching out for us is a potential disaster,” Chief Justice John Roberts told an attorney for Illinois who questioned whether candidates likely to win could challenge election laws they found unjust..
“In other words, you’re saying, ‘If the candidate is going to win by 65%, no standing,’ but the candidate you know hopes to win by a dozen votes … then he has standing. But we’re not going to know that until we get very close to the election.”
Illinois Solicitor General Jane Notz warned that loosening the standing requirements for candidates could upend election processes.
“It would create chaos for election officials. It is very easy to be a candidate. Any self-declared candidate could challenge any election rule they happen to have a policy disagreement with, even if that rule were entirely harmless,” she contended.
“Election officials who are tasked with actually running elections would have to divert their time and energy and litigate,” she went on. “Federal courts, in turn, would be put in the position of resolving these disputes via advisory opinions, which is exactly what this Court’s standing cases have dictated should not happen.”
Bost, who will be seeking a seventh House term next year, has never won an election by fewer than six percentage points and was re-elected in 2024 with 74.2% of the vote.
Quote:An illegal immigrant who killed a University of South Carolina student in a horrific hit-and-run crash was quietly handed a slap-on-the-wrist sentence this summer — despite the tragedy sparking national outrage.
Rosali Fernandez-Cruz, 24, has been serving out his one-year stint at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia since August, when three of his charges were discreetly dropped and he pleaded guilty to the remaining most serious count for killing 21-year-old Nathaniel Baker, according to jail records and reports.
“The judge decided the sentence, which was one year,” a spokesperson for Republican South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told Fox News, adding that Baker’s forgiving family was consulted before the lenient sentence was given and wanted to keep the agreement hush-hush.
“They did not want this to be politicized or highly publicized. They were in agreement with the guilty plea and sentence.”
Fernandez-Cruz, a native of El Salvador who has been on the run from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2018, was also credited with 131 days served — despite fatal hit-and-runs carrying up to a 25-year maximum sentence in the Palmetto State, The State reported.
He is expected to walk free on March 2, 2026, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.
Wilson’s office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Fernandez-Cruz was nabbed shortly after failing to yield and striking Baker, a USC junior and Phi Gamma Delta fraternity member, who was riding his motorcycle near the college’s Columbia campus.
The careless motorist, who was allegedly driving without a license, fled the scene and later abandoned his pickup truck before being captured by a nearby cop — who then notified ICE of the arrest after his name was found in the National Crime Information Center database, police said at the time.
Fernandez-Cruz illegally crossed the US-Mexico border on an unknown date and was later arrested by Border Patrol in Texas in 2016, a Department of Homeland Security source told The Post in April.
Two years later, a North Carolina immigration judge ordered that he be sent back to his home country.
Quote:The Uber driver accused of “maliciously” sparking the deadly Palisades Fire repeatedly watched a French rap video that features the artist setting multiple fires as he talks about “despair and bitterness,” according to feds.
French-born Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, went to YouTube to listen to the French rap song “Un Zder, Un The,” by the artist Josman, just before midnight on Dec. 31 — minutes before he allegedly sparked a blaze in a popular grassy hangout near the Pacific Palisades, prosecutors alleged.
That fire was knocked down by firefighters, but continued to smolder — unnoticed — until it was ignited again and whipped into a deadly inferno by high winds on Jan. 7, federal authorities believe.
“The music video for the song shows the main character (Josman) lighting things on fire,” the court documents said.
An English translation of the song’s lyrics reveals the theme is “despair and bitterness,” according to the complaint.
Lyrics from the song include, “Daily life is killing me,” “I feel like I’m nowhere,” and “too much bitterness in my head, I think about the mistakes we made.”
“Google records indicate that Rinderknecht had listened to the same song nine times in the previous four days,” it states. He watched the corresponding fiery music video four times.
In the video from December 2018, Josman is seen smoking a blunt in his kitchen, which then sparks a blaze throughout the apartment.
At another point in the video, Josman is seen lighting a burning barrel outside a housing project, which becomes a huge inferno.
Quote:The alleged pyromaniac accused of igniting the deadly Palisades Fire – Los Angeles’ most destructive wildfire – chipped in a tiny donation to Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign, records show.
Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, shelled out $2 to hybrid PAC ActBlue on two separate occasions just days apart in 2020 – $1 on Sept. 4 and another buck on Sept. 11, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Records also show the alleged arsonist — born in France — was registered to vote in Florida, though he never declared a political party.
The deranged Uber driver was charged with “maliciously” sparking a brush fire near a popular hiking trail near the Pacific Palisades on Jan. 1 – a blaze that firefighters initially put out but smoldered unnoticed, underground for days.
Fanned by high winds, the fire reignited six days later into the raging Palisades inferno that killed 12 people, obliterated nearly 7,000 homes and buildings to ash, and caused about $150 billion in damages in the wealthy coastal enclave.
Rinderknecht, who previously lived in the Los Angeles area, had hiked the trail on New Year’s Day moments after dropping off Uber passengers – who later said their driver appeared “agitated and angry,” the feds said.
He then filmed himself on the mountain and listened to a rap track with themes of “despair and bitterness” by French artist Josman – whose accompanying music video shows the main character lighting things on fire, according to court documents.
Quote:A deranged crook with a mile-long rap sheet allegedly confessed to savagely beating a stranger to death outside a Brooklyn subway station – coldly telling cops he didn’t like the way the victim “looked at him,” sources revealed Wednesday.
David Mazariegos, 25, was charged with murder in the senseless Tuesday afternoon assault near the Jay Street-MetroTech Station, law-enforcement sources said.
The creep flashed a sinister, partially toothless grin Wednesday as he was carted outside a Manhattan courthouse, where he was first arraigned on charges from a past case and his dramatic arrest with a samurai sword in Times Square hours after the brutal slaying.
“Why’d you take my planet?” Mazariegos raved outside the courtroom when asked why he killed the man.
Sources said the sicko allegedly copped to attacking 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi in Downtown Brooklyn because the hapless man held a subway gate door open for him – an act of kindness that the hotheaded hoodlum told cops he disliked.
A shockingly brutal attack followed, with the assailant repeatedly pummeling the victim’s face and stomping on his head up to 15 times, sources said.
The beating lasted 10 minutes before the sadistic attacker took Tanzi’s wallet and ID – which delayed his identification by police – and left him battered and unconscious near Lawrence and Willoughby streets, according to sources.
The brutalized man died roughly an hour later in New York-Presbyterian Hospital Brooklyn Methodist.
Tanzi, who had lived in Brooklyn for over 20 years, worked in security and planned to retire next year, his pals the The Post.
“We lost a good friend. He was a really good guy,” said Carmina Racaro, owner of a flower shop near Tanzi’s Bensonhurst apartment. “He would come here for espresso, ask how are you. He was happy.”
Racaro said Tanzi originally hailed from Bari, Italy and was a regular church usher during the Italian-language church services at the Catholic St. Dominic parish. He also belonged to an Italian club in Carroll Gardens, friends stated.
Tanzi’s alleged attacker, of The Bronx, has at least 33 past arrests, including both sealed and unsealed cases, and is listed on the city’s transit recidivist database, sources said.
Quote:The chilling discovery of two roosters and a white dove — all decapitated and drained of blood — has authorities in upstate New York investigating a possible link to dark ritualistic sacrifices.
The gruesome find near Lake Carmel in Putnam County on Friday is just the latest in a series of recent troubling discoveries in the upstate community — with locals wondering if there’s a cult in their midst.
“The area where this bag was found was only a short distance from where other bags of mutilated animals have been found in recent months, possibly the result of ritualistic killings,” the Putnam County SPCA said in a Facebook post this week.
The bodies of the two roosters were found stuffed in a plastic bag, not far from where the white dove was found along a wooded area on Holland Drive near the lake in the town of Kent, officials said.
So far this year, 10 similar discoveries have been made in the area, including an incident in April when two butchered birds were stuffed in a garbage bag and dumped nearby, News12 reported.
The station said that the birds, which were found shortly after 4:30 p.m. Friday, had been drained of blood.
“Extremely shocking,” one area resident told the outlet.
Animal offerings are often part of bizarre rituals for practitioners of voodoo, Santeria and similar dark crafts.
MIDDLE EAST
Quote:Hamas has said the "lists of prisoners to be exchanged were presented" at indirect negotiations with Israel as the two sides work through the details of U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan to end the war in Gaza.
"The Hamas delegation has shown a positive and responsible attitude toward achieving the required progress and completing the agreement," said a statement released by Taher al-Nounou, media adviser to the head of Hamas’ Political Bureau, originally in Arabic.
Why It Matters
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has caused widespread devastation in Gaza, displacing millions and creating severe shortages of food, water, and medical care. Israel has also suffered from rocket attacks and ongoing security threats, highlighting the broader human and strategic toll on both sides.
Beyond the immediate humanitarian crisis, the fighting has far-reaching implications for regional stability, international diplomacy, and global security. Progress toward ending the violence and establishing a ceasefire could help prevent further civilian suffering and lay the groundwork for rebuilding and long-term stability in the region.
What To Know
Hamas' statement continued: "The mediators are exerting great efforts to remove any obstacles ahead of steps to implement a ceasefire, and there is a spirit of optimism among all parties. The negotiations have focused on the mechanisms for ending the war, the withdrawal of occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, and the exchange of prisoners.
"Today, the lists of prisoners to be exchanged were presented, detailing those whose release is being demanded, according to the agreed-upon criteria and numbers. The indirect negotiations continue today, with the participation of all parties and mediators."
Negotiators are now focusing on establishing practical steps for a halt to the fighting and the logistics of a prisoner exchange. A Palestinian source close to the talks told Reuters that the timing of the first phase of President Trump’s 20-point initiative has not yet been finalized.
Competing Objectives
Hamas is pushing for a permanent ceasefire, full withdrawal of Israeli forces, and immediate reconstruction overseen by a Palestinian “national technocratic body.” Israel insists on the disarmament of Hamas, a step the group says cannot happen until a free Palestinian state is established. U.S. officials are concentrating first on ending hostilities and coordinating the release of hostages and detainees.
Quote:Hamas is demanding the release of vicious murderers — including one dubbed “the symbol of terrorism” by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — in negotiations this week to release all remaining Israeli hostages and end the war in Gaza.
At the top of Hamas’ prisoner swap list is Marwan Barghouti, the imprisoned former West Bank leader who earned the fearsome nickname after orchestrating deadly terror attacks during the Second Intifada.
The 66-year-old was jailed in 2002 for the attacks, which killed five civilians.
Israeli officials say freeing Barghouti would hand Hamas a propaganda victory and embolden extremists across the region.
“Hamas isn’t negotiating peace,” one Israeli source told the Times of Israel. “They’re negotiating the future of terrorism.”
The hard-line demand comes as Israel and Hamas continue tense cease-fire talks at Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh — the latest attempt to halt two years of brutal conflict since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel.
The negotiations — which include US, Qatari and Turkish mediators — aim to finalize a broad cease-fire deal, bring 48 Israeli hostages home and pave the way for a full Israel Defense Forces withdrawal from Gaza.
Representing the US are special presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who arrived in Egypt early Wednesday and privately pledged not to leave without a deal in hand. The discussions are expected to last for several more days.
As the negotiations continue, each side is accusing the other of dragging their feet.
Israeli negotiators insist no lifetime convicts or unrepentant killers will walk free, while Hamas leader Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement Tuesday that the terror group would not allow Israel to end the war as victors.
“Despite the brutal military force, unlimited support, and full American partnership in the war of extermination in Gaza, they have not and will not succeed in achieving a false image of victory,” the terrorist leader claimed.
Quote:President Trump said Wednesday that he expects Hamas to release all remaining Israeli hostages on Monday, following a breakthrough peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinian terror group.
“The big thing is hostages are going to be released probably, our time, would be, probably Monday,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity, in an interview hours after he announced both Hamas and Israel had agreed to the first phase of his 20-point plan for peace in the Middle East.
“They’re in a terrible situation there,” Trump said of the 48 hostages believed to be in Gaza, more than half of which are thought to be dead.
“They’re deep in the earth, and they’re being gotten and a lot of things are happening right now as we speak,” the president continued.
“So much is happening to get the hostages freed, and we think they’ll all be coming back on Monday.”
A senior White House official explained that the deal, which is expected to pause fighting in Gaza as well, will head to the Israeli cabinet on Thursday for approval – and then Israeli troops must begin to pullback from some parts of the strip.
“The deal goes to the Israeli cabinet tomorrow. Once they vote yes, Israel has to withdraw to the line which should take under 24 hours,” the senior White House official said.
“Then the 72 hour clock begins, and Hamas will try to go earlier if possible. Our assessment is that hostages will begin getting released on Monday,” the official added.
Shortly after announcing the peace deal, Trump shared a video on his Truth Social of families of hostages celebrating the development.
“And today, President Trump has done it. He announced just now that our loved ones, the hostages, are coming home,” a family member said in the video.
“We will not stop fighting until we see the last of the 48 return to their family, those who were murdered in captivity, buried in the Land of Israel, those who are still alive, walking through the border and reuniting with their families.”
Quote:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reacted after Israel and Hamas agreed to the “first phase” of President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan.
Why It Matters
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has caused widespread death and devastation in Gaza, displacing millions and creating severe shortages of food, water and medical care. Israel has also suffered from rocket attacks and security threats, highlighting the broader human and strategic toll on both sides.
Beyond the immediate humanitarian crisis, the fighting has far-reaching implications for regional stability, international diplomacy and global security. Progress toward ending the violence and establishing a ceasefire could help prevent further civilian suffering and lay the groundwork for rebuilding and long-term stability in the region.
What To Know
Trump, announcing the outlines of the biggest breakthrough in months in the two-year war, said Israel and Hamas have agreed to the “first phase” of his peace plan to pause fighting and release at least some hostages and prisoners.
Hamas plans to release all 20 remaining living hostages this weekend, people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press. The Israeli military is expected to begin withdrawing from most of Gaza.
Netanyahu posted on X: "A great day for Israel. Tomorrow I will convene the government to approve the agreement and bring all our dear hostages home. I thank the heroic soldiers of the IDF and all the security forces, thanks to whose courage and sacrifice we have reached this day. I thank from the depths of my heart President Trump and his team for their mobilization for this sacred mission of releasing our hostages. With the help of the Almighty, together we will continue to achieve all our goals and expand peace with our neighbors."
“With God’s help we will bring them all home," he said regarding the hostages.
It was not immediately clear whether the parties had made any progress on thornier questions about the future of the conflict, including whether Hamas will demilitarize, as Trump has demanded, and eventual governance of the war-torn territory. But the agreement nonetheless marked the most momentous development since a deal in January and February that involved the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
Israel's offensive in Gaza has killed more than 67,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and has left much of the coastal strip uninhabitable.
What People Are Saying
Trump, on Truth Social: "I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan. This means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace. All Parties will be treated fairly!"
Quote:Greta Thunberg has been blasted as an embarrassment after she tried to highlight the “suffering” of Palestinian prisoners in a social media post — but used a harrowing photo of an emaciated Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave.
The showboating climate activist had included a skeletal image of the hostage, Evyatar David, in an Instagram post on Monday about the alleged mistreatment of Palestinians in Israeli prisons.
“The suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion — it is a fact of cruelty and dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders,” read the post, which was made in collaboration with a slew of other activists.
The photo, however, had actually come from a sick propaganda video Hamas put out in August that shockingly showed a 24-year-old David digging his own grave in captivity.
The hostage’s sister, Yeela David, immediately went scorched earth on Thunberg and her fellow anti-Israel activists over the major blunder.
“You should make a research before you post things you don’t understand about. In the 6th slide you put a photo of an Israeli Hostage who Hamas starved on purpose. This is Evyatar David,” she commented.
“Every minute you are not deleting the post, you are becoming a bigger joke.”
The sickening images of David sparked global condemnation when they emerged in the Hamas propaganda video — with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Consulate General of Israel in New York even blasting the images on a Times Square billboard to raise awareness of his plight.
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:The Ukrainian military hit a major Russian ammunition plant, oil terminal and weapons depot on Monday using long-range drones, officials said.
Kyiv scored another blow against Moscow’s war machine overnight as its UAVs struck the Sverdlov ammunition plant in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, the Ukrainian General Staff said.
The strike caused multiple explosions and a fire to break out at the plant, which allegedly supplies Russian forces with aviation and artillery ordnance, aviation bombs, and anti-aircraft and anti-tank munitions, Kyiv added.
Along with the strike on Sverdlov, Ukrainian drones also hit a key oil terminal in Crimea, causing a blaze in yet another assault against Moscow’s refineries.
The oil plants have been a key target in the latest year of the war, with Ukraine hitting more than 18 major refineries in recent months.
The assaults have resulted in fuel shortages across Russia since August, leading to headaches at the pump for consumers.
The Ukrainian drones were also deployed overnight against a weapons cache in Crimea used by Russia’s 18th Combined Arms Army, the General Staff said.
Russian officials confirmed that Ukraine launched a wide-scale drone assault overnight, with the UAVs spotted over 14 regions.
While Moscow offered few details on the extent of the damage, the Kremlin said at least 251 drones were intercepted, marking one of the largest assaults against Russia of the war.
Gleb Nikitin, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, said at least 20 Ukrainian drones were intercepted during the attack on the Sverdolv ammo plant, claiming no facilities were damaged in the assault.
The overnight assault demonstrated Ukraine’s capability to swiftly develop its defense manufacturing capacity, with the country discussing a technology and production deal with the US.
Quote:At least 4,200 Cuban nationals are fighting for Moscow in its brutal war on Kyiv, Ukrainian intelligence services told The Post on Monday — and US officials are concerned it signals a growing threat to security in the Western Hemisphere as Havana deepens its relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
While Moscow has previously reached out to other US adversaries for manpower help — most notably North Korea, which sent at least 15,000 troops to fight alongside the Russians — the addition of mass quantities of troops from Cuba is particularly concerning as the US seeks to focus more security efforts on the Western hemisphere.
“Yet another example of authoritarian regimes in Latin America actively siding with America’s enemies,” a source close to the White House told The Post.
Cuba claims the fighters are volunteers recruited by Moscow, but the country has one of the world’s most tightly controlled exit systems — meaning it’s unlikely they left the island with Havana’s approval, said multiple US and Ukrainian sources.
“One of Vladimir Putin’s biggest vulnerabilities is the massive number of casualties Russia has suffered in Ukraine and the need to avoid a mass mobilization in his political base in St. Petersburg and Moscow,” Atlantic Council fellow Alex Plitsas said. “4,200 Cuban mercenaries is not a small number by any means and it is unlikely that the Cuban government wouldn’t know about it.”
Plitsas added: “This is a step backwards for Cuba and a big mistake. Cuba has to decide if it wants to rejoin the free world or continue to support war criminals and terrorists.”
The development has triggered concern in the Trump administration, which has been heightening the US focus on security in the Western Hemisphere since January and deploying warships to central and South America in recent months.
“We’re aware of reports that Cuban nationals are fighting alongside Russian troops in the Russia-Ukraine war,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement Monday. “The Cuban regime has failed to protect its citizens from being used as pawns in the Russia-Ukraine war.”
Quote:Moscow made a desperate threat Wednesday that it would shoot down all Tomahawk cruise missiles and destroy their launch sites if the US commits to supplying the powerful, long-range weapons to Ukraine that could obliterate Russian oil refineries and military bases.
Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian parliament’s defense committee, feverishly advised President Trump to keep the missiles — that have far more range than any others sent so far by Western allies — out of Ukraine.
“Our response will be tough, ambiguous, measured, and asymmetrical,” Kartapolov told the state RIA news agency. “We will find ways to hurt those who cause us trouble.”
Kartapolov also claimed that the Tomahawks, which experts say have the power and range to decimate military and oil facilities deep inside Russia, will do little to change the tide of the war.
“We know these missiles very well, how they fly, how to shoot them down; we worked with them in Syria, so there is nothing new,” the lawmaker said.
“The only problems will be for those who supply them and those who use them; that’s where the problems will be,” Kartapolov added, offering a direct threat to the US.
Moscow’s frantic threat comes as Trump signaled on Monday that he was actively considering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s request for the long-range cruise missiles.
A senior congressional aide previously told The Post that “sending even a single Tomahawk to Ukraine would scare the s–t out of the Russians more than almost anything else we could do.”
Trump, however, said he needed to know what Ukraine would do with the missiles before greenlighting the shipment, with the president concerned that it could lead to an escalation in the war.
Quote:Russia has issued a warning that it will retaliate if any country—particularly the United States—resumes nuclear testing, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
Speaking to reporters and the State Duma, Ryabkov accused Washington of maintaining nuclear test infrastructure in a state of readiness and signaled that Moscow is closely monitoring U.S. actions. The comments follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks at the Valdai International Discussion Club, where he suggested preparations for nuclear tests were underway elsewhere.
"If a country with the capability makes the erroneous decision to conduct nuclear tests, and Washington is clearly in our focus, then we will retaliate immediately," he said.
Newsweek reached out to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs via email for comment.
Why It Matters
The statements mark a significant escalation in nuclear rhetoric between two of the world's most critical nuclear powers. Russia’s threat of retaliation and its withdrawal from key arms control agreements signal a deteriorating strategic relationship with the United States. These developments could undermine decades of nuclear non-proliferation efforts and heighten global security risks, particularly as existing treaties approach expiration.
The breakdown of cooperation on plutonium disposal and the uncertain future of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) raise concerns about the erosion of arms control frameworks that have helped maintain strategic stability since the end of the Cold War. The absence of dialogue and mutual verification mechanisms could lead to miscalculations and heightened tensions.
What To Know
Ryabkov said that Moscow would respond immediately if any country conducts nuclear tests. He emphasized that Washington has maintained its nuclear test infrastructure in a state of combat readiness, a posture Russia has monitored since its decision regarding New START.
The New START, signed in 2010 by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, remains the cornerstone of bilateral nuclear arms control. The agreement caps each nation at 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed delivery systems, including missiles and bombers.
A key feature of the treaty—on-site inspections to verify compliance—was suspended in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has yet to resume. Originally set to expire in 2021, the pact was extended for five years, pushing its expiration to February 2026.
Putin echoed Ryabkov’s concerns, saying at the Valdai International Discussion Club that Russia believes “someone is preparing” for nuclear tests. He warned that any such action would prompt a retaliatory response from Moscow.
Ryabkov clarified that Russia’s proposal to extend the quantitative limits of New START for one year beyond its February 2026 expiration depends on the U.S. avoiding destabilizing actions. These include offensive strategic weapons developments and missile defense initiatives that Russia views as threats to its nuclear deterrence.
During a State Duma session, Ryabkov announced Russia’s intent to formally terminate its obligations under the 2000 plutonium management and disposition agreement with the U.S. He cited unacceptable changes proposed by Washington and a lack of consent from Moscow regarding disposal methods.
The agreement, ratified in 2011, required both nations to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium. Russia suspended its participation in 2016 following U.S. sanctions, NATO expansion, and increased American military presence in Eastern Europe. Ryabkov reiterated that these shifts, along with the U.S.' unilateral changes to disposal procedures, justified Russia’s withdrawal.
Ryabkov assured lawmakers that the formal termination of the agreement would not require new federal budget expenditures. He added that all necessary approvals had been secured and that the legislative process was underway.
Quote:Russia warned Tuesday that it would consider any new foreign military presence in Afghanistan or nearby countries “categorically unacceptable,” delivering the message during a high-level meeting in Moscow that included Afghanistan’s Taliban government.
Why It Matters
The statement came weeks after President Donald Trump said the United States was exploring options to retake Bagram Air Base, the massive military complex abandoned during the chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces.
What To Know
At the opening of the international conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised the Taliban for its efforts to fight Islamic State militants and curb narcotics trafficking but made clear Moscow’s red line against renewed U.S. military involvement in the region.
“The deployment of military infrastructure of any third countries on the territory of Afghanistan, as well as on the territories of neighboring states, is categorically unacceptable under any pretext,” Lavrov said. He warned that any “extra-regional military presence” would only bring new instability, adding that Afghanistan’s history “should have taught everyone the right lessons long ago.”
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Russia’s position reflects deep sensitivities shaped by its own history in Afghanistan. The former Soviet Union fought a decade-long war there before withdrawing its troops in 1989, a conflict that left tens of thousands dead and contributed to the USSR’s eventual collapse. Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, Moscow has sought to strengthen ties with Kabul while asserting itself as a key power broker in Central Asia.
In July, Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban government, removing it from its list of banned organizations. At Tuesday’s talks, Lavrov said Moscow wanted to expand business and energy cooperation with Afghanistan and deepen joint efforts against terrorism and drug trafficking. He also condemned Western sanctions and the ongoing freeze of Afghanistan’s foreign assets, calling those measures “hostile and counterproductive.”
Representatives from China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan also attended the Moscow gathering, which focused on regional security and economic development. The talks come as the Taliban, still largely isolated on the world stage, continues to seek legitimacy despite widespread condemnation of its treatment of women and girls.
Since seizing power, the Taliban has reimposed many of the restrictions that defined its earlier rule from 1996 to 2001. Women are barred from most jobs and public spaces, including schools, gyms and parks, while girls are prohibited from education beyond the sixth grade. Those policies remain a major obstacle to broader recognition — even as Afghanistan again becomes a stage for global competition over influence and access.
EUROPE
Quote:The knife-wielding Islamist terrorist who attacked a UK synagogue on Yom Kippur had called police mid-carnage to brag, “I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State,” according to a report Wednesday.
Syrian-born monster Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, rammed his car into worshippers and started stabbing others as he tried to storm his way into the synagogue in Manchester on Thursday.
Before being shot dead by cops, the terrorist called 999 — the UK equivalent of 911 — and told the operator, “I have killed two Jews in the name of the Islamic State,” according to the Sun.
The dad of three made the call immediately after driving into worshippers outside the Heaton Park Synagogue and then stabbing at least two people, the paper reported.
“This is what you’re going to get for killing our children,” he also yelled, witnesses told the Sun, seemingly referring to the ongoing conflict in Gaza sparked by Hamas’ slaughter of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
British counter-terror police declared it a terrorist attack.
However, they have yet to find a direct link between Al-Shamie and any terror organizations, according to the Sun.
Instead, Al-Shamie is believed to be a “lone wolf” inspired by Islamic terrorism and the Israel-Hamas war.
Neighbors said he became radicalized during Covid, and started wearing robes and preaching the Quran to local children.
Quote:The recently elected mayor of a town in western Germany was in critical condition on Tuesday after she was found in her home with multiple stab wounds to her neck and abdomen.
Iris Stalzer, 57, a center-left Social Democrat who secured her mayor-elect standing late last month, dragged herself into her home after several men allegedly attacked her, according to her 15-year-old son, reported Reuters, citing German news outlet Bild.
But according to investigators, “Close family involvement cannot be ruled out at the present time,” and Stalzer’s son and 17-year-old daughter were also brought in for questioning.
It is unclear who called the police and how quickly emergency responders arrived at the scene, though police officers blocked off the street outside her home and launched an immediate investigation.
The mayor-elect of Herdecke – a town of some 20,000 in Germany’s largest state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the border with Belgium and the Netherlands – was life-flighted by helicopter to a nearby hospital.
The attack on Stalzer comes after an unusually contentious election, according to reports, in which she ousted a conservative mayor.
Though authorities have signaled no motive behind the attack, Stalzer is the latest politician to experience violence amid a concerning trend in Germany.
Quote:Spanish emergency services have recovered the bodies of four people from beneath the rubble of a six-story building that collapsed in central Madrid while being refurbished into a hotel, local authorities said on Wednesday.
“It is with deep sadness that we confirm that Madrid firefighters have recovered the bodies of the people who went missing after the collapse,” Mayor Jose Luis Almeida wrote on X.
The victims have been identified as three men aged between 30 and 50 from Ecuador, Mali and Guinea-Conakry and employed at the site as construction workers, as well as a 30-year-old woman, the renovation project’s architect.
Their remains were found early on Wednesday, nearly 15 hours after the collapse of the building’s interior structure that left its facade intact, in a search-and-rescue operation in which police and firefighters deployed drones and sniffer dogs. Three other construction workers were injured.
One construction worker named Mikhail was pumping concrete into the building’s lower floors and was outside when the collapse occurred. He said he saw a large cloud of dust and immediately sprinted away.
“I was the first to run, I didn’t care about anything else. I’ll save my life first and, if I can, save others later,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
According to Madrid’s online registry of buildings under construction, the property was built in 1965.
It underwent two technical inspections in 2012 and 2022 and was classified as “unfavorable” due to “the general condition of the facade, exterior, partition walls, roof, roof terraces and plumbing and sewage system.”
The former office building, located in an area of downtown Madrid popular with tourists near the opera house and royal palace, was being converted into a four-star hotel by developer Rehbilita, according to information on its website. Rehbilita did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Quote:Ukrainian officials were left “bewildered and disappointed” by Vice President Joe Biden’s December 2015 trip to Kyiv, during which he gave a speech decrying corruption as a “cancer” — with the Ukrainians accusing the US of a “double standard” given Biden’s family ties to corrupt energy firm Burisma, a trove of newly declassified Obama-era intelligence reveals.
In an extreme departure from normal practice, the report on Ukrainian displeasure was suppressed at the request of Biden’s then-national security adviser, Dr. Colin Kahl, and did not appear in the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB), according to a senior CIA official who briefed journalists this week.
Kahl “would strongly prefer the report not/not be disseminated,” wrote a correspondent identified only as “PDF Briefer” in an email to the CIA on February 10, 2016.
“Thanks for understanding.”
“PDF Briefer” was likely Deputy Director of National Intelligence Michael Dempsey, who provided an intelligence briefing to President Barack Obama every morning at that time. Dempsey reported to then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has been implicated in the Russiagate scandal to sabotage Donald Trump’s first presidential term. Clapper is reportedly under investigation by a federal grand jury examining the role of former Obama administration officials in concocting the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.
The PDB, the classified product of all 18 US intelligence agencies, is meant to serve as an early warning to the commander-in-chief of nascent crises and looming problems across the globe.
“This was information of intelligence value that came into the possession of CIA in late 2015,” said the senior CIA official.
“Normally … this intelligence report would be disseminated to individuals with an appropriate clearance and ‘need to know’ within the US government.
“However, in February 2016, the vice president’s national security adviser told his intelligence briefer that he would strongly prefer the report not be disseminated. So the report never saw the light of day. “
The report and email were recently discovered during an “internal review of historical agency records and databases” ordered by CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
“As of mid-December 2015,” the eight-page report says, “officials within the administration of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expressed bewilderment and disappointment at the 7-8 December 2015 visit of the Vice President of the United States to Kiev, Ukraine …
“These officials assessed that the U.S. Vice President had come to Kiev almost exclusively to give a generic public speech and had not had any intention of discussing substantive matters with Poroshenko or other officials within the Ukrainian government.”
After Biden left, the report goes on, the Ukrainian officials “privately mused at the U.S. media scrutiny of the alleged ties of the U.S. Vice President’s family to corrupt business practices in Ukraine [which they viewed] as evidence of a double-standard within the United States Government towards matters of corruption and political power.”
At the same time Biden, now 82, delivered his anti-corruption screed in the Ukrainian parliament, his son Hunter was receiving $1 million a year to sit on the board of Burisma.
LATIN AMERICA
Quote:A 1,200-person caravan of largely Cuban migrants is heading north from Mexico’s southern city of Tapachula in a weeks-long pursuit of better economic opportunities. But the destination is not the U.S. border, it’s Mexico City.
The destination of the caravan signals a stark shift in regional trends as President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies take hold.
The caravan, which departed earlier this month, is expected to take weeks to reach its destination, where migrants hope to find higher-paying jobs in Mexico’s capital city, rather than its impoverished south.
Tapachula, located in Mexico's poorest state of Chiapas, has been struggling for years to cope with the migrant crisis as it sits near the border with Guatemala, which has long seen significant outflows of migrants fleeing gang violence and poverty stemming from the Northern Triangle.
According to the Washington Office on Latin America, the group of migrants is using social media to petition the Mexican government to assist with asylum cases and proper documentation for people looking to officially reside in Mexico City.
El Pais reported last week that corruption and extortion remain a top concern for migrants looking for relocation assistance. The report said the issue remains one of the chief obstacles plaguing the Mexican Commission for Refugee Assistance.
Despite concerns over financial abuse in attempting to relocate in Mexico, the Spain-based outlet reported that many migrants still consider staying there preferable to heading to the U.S. under Trump.
AUSTRALIA
Quote:Passengers on board a Rex Airlines flight from Adelaide have caught the moment flames and smoke started billowing out of the engine just after takeoff was aborted.
The Saab 340 twin-turboprop was due to depart for Broken Hill shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday when a fault indicator signalled a problem with the left engine.
The engine was shut down, but unburnt fuel is understood to have caught fire inside the engine.
Footage taken from inside the aircraft showed flames and smoke coming from the engine.
Passengers were forced to disembark the aircraft on the taxiway and were bused back to the terminal, while the plane was taken back to its bay.
A spokesperson for Adelaide Airport told NewsWire the runway was closed for about 20 minutes.
“Normal operations resumed at 8am,” the spokesperson said.
“Rex is currently working with impacted passengers to rebook their flights.”
No injuries were reported.
Passenger Mark Goodger was on the flight and told his wife Julia the incident was “a bit scary”.
“They had to evacuate on the tarmac,” Julia Goodger told 7News.
“He’s got a refund and so did others. Not flying today.”
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