• Mideast experts analyze viability of Gaza peace proposal

    Mideast experts analyze viability of Gaza peace proposal

    Sep 29, 2025 10:50 PM EST

    I think what the president is trying to do here is to say, let's just end the war now. Let's release the hostages and Palestinian prisoners. Let's surge the aid. Let's begin reconstruction, create a mechanism, close the door on Gaza annexation for Israel. No forced ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Democrats' approach to negotiations with Trump

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Democrats' approach to negotiations with Trump

    Sep 29, 2025 10:25 PM EST

    ... to get a policy change. And so that is a big difference. Some of the words that we're hearing Republicans say, this is a hostage-taking, this is a hijacking, these are words that have come out of Democrats' mouths again and again and again over many years of ...

  • What to know about the Gaza peace proposal touted by Trump and Netanyahu

    What to know about the Gaza peace proposal touted by Trump and Netanyahu

    Sep 29, 2025 08:27 PM EST

    Those terms could bring pushback from Hamas, which has said it will not release all its hostages unless it receives a “clear declaration” the war will end and Israel will leave Gaza completely. The fate of Hamas and postwar Gaza Hamas would have no part in administering Gaza, and all ...

  • Read Trump's 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza

    Read Trump's 20-point proposal to end the war in Gaza

    Sep 29, 2025 08:23 PM EST

    6. Once all hostages are returned, Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty. Members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries. 7. Upon acceptance of this agreement, full aid will be immediately ...

  • WATCH: Trump and Netanyahu say they've agreed to a plan to end Gaza war and await Hamas to accept terms

    WATCH: Trump and Netanyahu say they've agreed to a plan to end Gaza war and await Hamas to accept terms

    Sep 29, 2025 02:44 PM EST

    ... Gaza.” Proposal does not include expulsion of PalestiniansTrump’s proposal to stop the war in Gaza calls for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all hostages within 48 hours and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian enclave, according to three Arab officials briefed on the plan. They ...

  • WATCH: Day 7 of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly

    WATCH: Day 7 of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly

    Sep 28, 2025 11:18 PM EST

    ... in a world engulfed in turmoil and conflict, the United Arab Emirates’ deputy foreign minister Lana Nusseibeh said there is no justification for Hamas taking hostages or for Israel targeting “tens of thousands of civilians or besieging them or starving them and forcibly displacing them.”Israel’s “unacceptable, expansionist ambitions ...

  • Netanyahu says Israel and U.S. working on Gaza ceasefire plan as death toll tops 66,000

    Netanyahu says Israel and U.S. working on Gaza ceasefire plan as death toll tops 66,000

    Sep 28, 2025 10:47 PM EST

    The official said the group had previously said it was willing to release all hostages in return for an end to the war and a complete withdrawal of Israeli forces from the strip. Nonstop explosions reported in Gaza Local hospitals in central Gaza said at least 10 people were killed ...

  • Federal workers brace for more mass layoffs as potential government shutdown looms

    Federal workers brace for more mass layoffs as potential government shutdown looms

    Sep 28, 2025 09:50 PM EST

    ... is potentially a path forward. We have to see where it goes. But we can't do it while the American people are being held hostage by the Democrats in a government shutdown. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) Minority Leader: We need a serious negotiation. Now, if the president at this ...

  • What to know about the UN reimposing 'snapback' sanctions over Iran's nuclear program

    What to know about the UN reimposing 'snapback' sanctions over Iran's nuclear program

    Sep 27, 2025 07:12 PM EST

    ... s theocratic government. Later that year, university students overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seeking the shah’s extradition and sparking the 444-day hostage crisis that saw diplomatic relations between Iran and the U.S. severed.During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the U.S. backed ...

  • News Wrap: Netanyahu vows to press ahead in Gaza as U.N. delegates walk out in protest

    News Wrap: Netanyahu vows to press ahead in Gaza as U.N. delegates walk out in protest

    Sep 26, 2025 10:45 PM EST

    Geoff Bennett: In an unprecedented move, the Israeli military today broadcast Netanyahu's U.N. speech into Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu: I have surrounded Gaza with massive loudspeakers in the hope that our dear hostages will hear my message. Geoff Bennett: Meantime, in Gaza City today, the chaotic aftermath of another ...