Latest: Israel's cabinet approved the deal with Hamas early on Saturday after meeting for more than six hours. Hardliners opposed the deal, saying it was a capitulation. And not all of the Israeli hostages taken during the Oct. 7 attacks will go free at once.
What did Trump say about Ukraine? He said repeatedly he'd get a deal in place to end the war with Russia by the first day of his presidency. Two of his advisers told Reuters it'll take months or longer to resolve. They called his earlier statements campaign bluster and a lack of appreciation of the conflict's intractability.
I'd be rubbing my hands together: Wall Street CEOs say the Trump administration will be good for their banks as they reported a surge in profits thanks to more M&A and trading. They're also looking forward to defanging some rules that govern their businesses in the public interest. Goldman Sachs is throwing a ton of money at its CEO to get him to stick around five more years.
And if I were Novo Nordisk: I'd be meeting the head of state in Denmark to figure out what to do about Trump's tariff threat if he can't buy or seize Greenland. The prime minister said it's up to Greenland to decide its future, not Copenhagen. And Canada's foreign minister said they are ready to respond to Trump's tariff threat as soon as Monday.
Yoon Suk Yeol became the first South Korean sitting president to be arrested. He is fighting a request by investigators to extend his detention on accusations of insurrection.
Attackers have targeted the Jewish community in Sydney three times in the past two months. What's going on?
The British minister responsible for fighting corruption resigned over… well, better just read the story than have me spoil it with the punchline.
If only we still had John le Carré around. Britain released top-secret MI5 files detailing firsthand accounts of confessions of three notorious double agents during the Cold War, including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who eat rillettes and the ones who love Rillette, the French wild boar who escaped euthanasia and will be allowed to stay with her owner.
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