Good morning, all. If you’re making plans this week, make time to hang out with friends. It’s good for your health. Now, on to the news. It was a busy wild card weekend in the NFL playoffs ...

(Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Busboys and Poets) Speakers tapped for this year include Angela Davis, Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, Congresswomen Ilhan Omar, and Cori Bush, and more.

"I’m relieved to see hostages and Palestinian detainees being released as part of the deal," Rep. Ilhan Omar wrote on X.

The Biden administration earned blowback from both Democrats and Republicans for moving to nix Cuba's state sponsor of terrorism designation.

Don Samuels came close to unseating Omar two years ago. This time, the margin was wider. Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar won her ... for a ceasefire shortly after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Mediators have handed Israel and Hamas the final draft of a deal that could finally bring the 15-month-long Gaza war to a close — with US officials saying a ceasefire was closer than it’s ever ...

As negotiations for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas approach a decisive moment, the toll of the conflict continues to grow. Today, the Israeli military reported five soldiers were killed in ...

Hamas suffered a severe blow last fall when Israel killed Yahya Sinwar, the group’s leader and strategist behind the Oct. 7 attacks. But now the U.S.-designated terrorist group has another Sinwa ...

A senior Hamas source confirmed (Monday) that Hamas has received the draft ceasefire agreement with Israel in the Gaza Strip from the mediators. In a conversation with the newspaper Al-Araby Al ...

Hamas is expected to release 33 hostages in the first phase of the ceasefire-hostage agreement being negotiated in Doha in relation to the situation in Gaza, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing two ...

By Adam Rasgon Ronen Bergman and Isabel Kershner Adam Rasgon and Isabel Kershner reported from Jerusalem and Ronen Bergman reported from New York Israel and Hamas are moving closer to an agreement ...

U.S. Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said on Sunday that the hostage-deal talks between Israel and Hamas are progressing because the Gaza terrorist organization is “terrified” by Donald Trump ...