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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to “increase the intensity of the activity to thwart terrorism” in all refugee camps in the West Bank.
“We will not allow the return of residents, and we will not allow terrorism to return and grow,” he said.
Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests showed early kidney failure but he remains alert, responsive and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection.
In a late update, the Vatican said Francis hadn’t had any more respiratory crises since Saturday night but was still receiving high flows of supplemental oxygen.
Some blood tests showed “initial, mild, kidney failure,” but doctors said it was under control.
“The complexity of the clinical picture, and the necessary wait for drug therapies to provide some feedback, dictate that the prognosis remains guarded,” Francis’ doctors concluded.
Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won Germany's election, well ahead of rival parties but short of the 30% vote-share they had expected.
"Let's celebrate tonight and in the morning we'll get to work," he told cheering supporters. He said he was "aware of the responsibility that now lies ahead" of him.
The other winner was the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), who are celebrating a record second-place result of 20.8%.
MSNBC is canceling Joy Reid’s evening news show as part of the network’s overhaul under the new presidential administration.
Reid’s final show is planned for sometime this week, a source familiar with the changes said.
She’s hosted “The ReidOut” on MSNBC since 2020, discussing political news and events. Reid has also anchored “The Reid Report” and “AM Joy” for the network in the past.
The network declined to comment on the changes.
Symone Sanders Townsend, Michale Steele and Alicia Menendez, who currently host the network’s “The Weekend,” will now be anchoring in Reid’s former 7 p.m. slot, sources at MSNBC said.
President Donald Trump said Friday he's "thinking about" merging the U.S. Postal Service with the Commerce Department, ending the agency’s independent status and putting it under the authority of his administration.
Trump's statement in the Oval Office, after Howard Lutnick was sworn in as his new Commerce secretary, came after two news reports published earlier.
Trump is preparing to issue an executive order to fire the postal service’s governing board, The Washington Post reported Thursday, citing six anonymous officials. Trump confirmed the merger plan on Friday, the Post reported.
"We want to have a post office that works well and doesn't lose massive amounts of money. And we're thinking about doing that," Trump said, according to USA TODAY.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday said it was placing all but a handful of U.S. Agency for International Development personnel around the world on paid administrative leave and eliminating some 2,000 of those positions in the U.S., according to a notice sent to agency workers reviewed by Reuters.
Just before midnight on Sunday, all United States Agency for International Development direct hire personnel with the exception of workers essential for critical functions, will be placed on leave. At the same time the agency is "beginning to implement a Reduction-in-Force" affecting about 2,000 USAID personnel in the U.S., the notice said.
The White House did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has led an effort to gut USAID, the main delivery mechanism for American foreign assistance, a critical tool of U.S. "soft power" for winning influence abroad.
Sir Keir Starmer will discuss the importance of Ukraine's sovereignty in talks with Donald Trump next week, he said in a call with the country's president.
The UK prime minister reiterated the UK's "ironclad support" for Kyiv when he spoke to Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday.
The two leaders held their second telephone conversation in four days following US President Trump's decision to re-open relations with Russia and seek an end to the war in Ukraine.
Monday marks three years since Vladimir Putin's invasion, which UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he will mark with further sanctions on Russia.
The federal office that funds housing and other support for homeless people across the country is slated to shrink dramatically, a prospect that advocates warn would make record-high homelessness even worse.
The Office of Community Planning and Development, within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is slated to lose 84% of its staff, according to a document seen by NPR. That target is the deepest of any office in the agency.
"That proposed cut is massive. And the potential for adverse impact at the community level and at the national level is also massive," said Ann Oliva, who spent a decade at HUD and is now CEO at the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Hamas released six Israeli hostages early Saturday in three different locations throughout Gaza, in exchange for more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and detainees freed from Israeli jails. This is the largest number of Palestinian prisoners to be released at once since the beginning of the ceasefire which began in January.
This comes two days after Hamas returned the bodies of four Israeli hostages, one of which was supposed to be Shiri Bibas, a mother who was 32 years old at the time of her kidnapping. Israeli forensic testing showed that those remains were in fact that of an unidentified woman. On Friday, Hamas returned a second body, which Israeli authorities confirmed was that of Bibas.
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