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Hamas releases 3 more Israeli hostages for dozens of Palestinian prisoners under Gaza ceasefire
Hamas-led militants have released three gaunt, frail-looking Israeli civilian men held for the past 16 months and Israel is freeing dozens of Palestinian prisoners as part of a fragile agreement that has paused the war in the Gaza Strip More »
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Who are the Palestinian prisoners released in exchange for Israeli hostages?
Israel is releasing 183 Palestinian prisoners in the latest exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza, part of a ceasefire that has paused the war but whose future is uncertain More »

Federal judge blocks Elon Musk's DOGE from accessing sensitive US Treasury Department material
A federal judge has blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans More »

Judge blocks Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on leave and giving them 30-day deadline
A federal judge has dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job More »

Trump says he's ending Biden's classified intelligence briefings in payback move
President Donald Trump says he’s revoking former President Joe Biden’s access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he’s receiving in payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021 More »

Crews rush to recover commuter plane found crashed on Alaska sea ice before expected snow and wind
Just hours after finding 10 people dead in western Alaska from one of the deadliest plane crashes in the state in 25 years, authorities are racing to recover their remains and the wreckage of the small commuter plane from unstable sea ice before expected high winds and snow More »

Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown
President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown More »

Trump administration orders federal agencies to provide lists of underperforming employees
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered all federal departments and agencies to provide lists of employees who are underperforming More »

A 15-year-old went to a Brooklyn parade. The NYPD wrongly accused him of a mass shooting
A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting More »

At 72 years old and out of the NFL, Bill Belichick makes presence known at the Super Bowl
At 72 years old and out of the NFL, Bill Belichick still stole the show during Super Bowl week More »