The terror group Hamas returned what it said were three bodies of hostages to Israel on Sunday. Hamas militants gave the remains, which it said were the bodies of three Israeli soldiers, over to the Red Cross, which brought them into Israel. The prime minister’s office said that the remains would be taken to the Ministry of Health’s National Center for Forensic Medicine for identification. “All of the hostages’ families have been updated accordingly, and our hearts are with them in this difficult hour. The effort to return our hostages is ongoing and will not cease until the last hostage is returned,” the prime minister’s office said in a statement. “The public is requested to respect the families’ privacy and to refrain from spreading rumors and unofficial and unverified information.” The hostage release comes just days after the terror group claimed to have found the remains of three other hostages that it turned over to the Red Cross. Forensic testing conducted on the bodies confirmed that none of the remains belonged to any of the hostages remaining in Gaza, however. Hamas and Israel struck a ceasefire agreement last month in which Israel agreed to pull back forces from inner Gaza and Hamas agreed to turn over all of its hostages back to Israel, 20 living and 28 dead. While the living were returned, the terror group has returned just 16 of the dead. If the three bodies turned over on Sunday are confirmed, eight more will be left for Hamas to hand over. Hamas has claimed that it needs time to find the bodies of hostages, which it has said have been buried in some cases below rubble. Drone footage released last week showed Hamas militants burying remains that were soon dug up again and handed over to the Red Cross. Israel has accused the terror group of being in breach of the ceasefire agreement for failing to return the hostages. Israel has also conducted strikes within Gaza twice since the ceasefire went into place in retaliation for attacks that have killed several Israeli soldiers. The Trump administration, which mediated the ceasefire and potential peace proposal between Israel and Hamas, has tamped down concerns that the tit-for-tat strikes will threaten the ceasefire. “The president achieved a historic peace in the Middle East, the ceasefire is holding. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t going to be little skirmishes here and there,” Vice President JD Vance said last week. “We know that Hamas, or somebody else within Gaza, attacked an IDF soldier. We expect the Israelis are going to respond, but I think the president’s peace is going to hold despite it.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris recalled during a recent interview how then-President Joe Biden had “angered” her in the moments leading up to her one debate with President Donald Trump. Harris told podcast host Steven Bartlett (“Diary of a CEO”) that Biden had called her prior to the debate, but that instead of giving her the encouragement and advice she expected, he’d made it clear to her that he was thinking only of himself. WATCH: Kamala Harris now says Biden angered her and reveals how she “really felt” about the whole situation. Why is she suddenly speaking up now? ? Thoughts? ⬇️ ?? pic.twitter.com/qe5OxHsbT4 — Tony Lane ?? (@TonyLaneNV) October 31, 2025 “I’m in the hotel room with Doug, with my husband, and the president calls,” Harris began. “And I was told that he wanted to call me so that I’d be ready, and I was so sure it was to buck me up and ‘go get him!'” “He did say that for the first beat. And then he went on to talk about a group of people in Pennsylvania who were saying bad things about me because they heard I was saying bad thing about him,” Harris continued. “And when I hung up the phone, I was just, I was, it was unbelievable! And I was yes, I was angry! And deeply disappointed.” Harris went on to explain that she’d actually wanted Biden to give her some pointers: “It just. It was so unnecessary. There are only two people in the world other than me that has debated this guy, Hillary Clinton and him. And you know what it’s like, it’s … Going into a debate with the stakes being that high and Trump hadn’t agreed to another debate, the stakes were so high. So that’s an example of what I mean.” “You took something from that. You took an underlying message about one’s intentions from that, because I would,” Bartlett prompted Harris to follow that thought to its logical conclusion. “If someone called me in the lead up to debate prep and said something like that to me, I would assume that they don’t want the best for me.” “My takeaway is his motivation was all about himself,” Harris replied. “That’s what I would assume from that,” Bartlett agreed. “Obviously, right. Yeah. It wasn’t about my performance at the debate,” Harris said. Bartlett took the argument a bit further, asking, “Do you think he wanted you to win the election?” Harris said that she did believe Biden wanted he to win, but she thought that his motives had been selfish: “I do because I was the only one who would be able to preserve his legacy.” “But even that’s about him,” Bartlett noted. “Well, if I had to assume one of the reasons why he’d want me to win. If– yeah,” she said.

Embattled Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s treasurer has resigned just days after his national finance director called it quits, according to the Judge Street Journal. The outlet reported that Victoria Perrone left her role as treasurer on Tuesday, and Ben Martello is the individual currently listed in the position on Federal Election Commission records. Platner’s campaign has faced numerous controversies resulting from deleted Reddit posts and a Nazi-era tattoo, and in the days since those controversies spread across social media, both a campaign manager and a political director have also abruptly exited the campaign. His former national finance director, Ronald Holmes III, posted to LinkedIn on Friday that he was resigning. “Somewhere along the way, I began to feel that my professional standards as a campaign professional no longer fully aligned with those of the campaign,” Holmes posted. “I wish the campaign and the voters in Maine well as they continue forward with selecting a nominee who they believe is best suited to meet the moment and flip this critical must win seat for us to take back the U.S. Senate in 2026,” he continued. Axios reported the Platner campaign said that Holmes quit because his role had more to do with getting large donors on board to the campaign, but “the reality is our campaign’s fundraising success has come largely from small dollar donors. Nearly 90% of what we’ve raised has come from small dollar donations and online donors, which is run by our digital fundraising director.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. WGME News reported that Kevin Brown took a job as the Democrat’s campaign manager, and claimed that his exit had to do with finding out that his wife is pregnant — but he left the job just days after beginning the new gig. Platner’s former political director Genevieve McDonald spoke out about quitting after his now-covered Totenkopf tattoo went viral. “Graham has an antisemitic tattoo on his chest,” McDonald posted to Facebook. “He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff. Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means.” The Democrat is in a primary race against Gov. Janet Mills, and whoever wins the primary will face off against Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2026. “Our movement is powered by the people of Maine,” Platner posted to X on Saturday. “The people of Maine will not be propagandized. And they will not be bought.” Platner’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) appeared desperate to evade any and all questions about his support for former President Joe Biden — support that continued even after it became painfully obvious that Biden was declining rapidly. Newsom repeatedly dodged questions on that topic during a Sunday morning appearance on “Meet the Press,” attempting to change the subject every time host Kristen Welker raised another question about the former president. WATCH: Gavin Newsom slithers around in an attempt to explain why he’s defended Joe Biden’s capacity to serve a second term: Welker: You stood by him till the end. Did you ever have concerns about his capacity to serve another four years? Newsom: “I never had that.” Welker: Did you… pic.twitter.com/VwpP06B5RP — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 2, 2025 “You stood by him till the end, after that disastrous debate performance, even when top Democrats were calling for him to step down,” Welker began. “Did you ever have concerns, Governor, about his capacity to serve another four years?” “I go home with the one that —” Newsom attempted to use the expression that he’d “dance with the one who brought him,” and then added, “I never had that — I just talked to the president a few hours ago. I’ve been privileged to have a relationship with the president.” Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “Governor, Did you legitimately believe that he was capable of serving as president until January of 2029?” Welker tried again. “Yeah, I think my focus was frankly situational,” Newsom replied, not really answering the question. “I was making sure Donald Trump didn’t get back into office to experience everything that we’re experiencing today, and there was no interaction that I had that suggested otherwise.” “What do you say to Americans who feel misled by you and other top Democrats?” Welker asked. “Misled in what respect? He decided to step down —” Newsom protested. “About the mental acuity of President Biden, they wish you had sounded the alarm sooner to give way for a convention,” Welker continued. “I never experienced — I’m not going to substitute myself for someone else,” Newsom said. “Or for popular opinion. I’m going to express my relationship to my truth with the former President of the United States, in eluding at the end of his term, quite literally in December, which was a master class in foreign policy and domestic policy, which I will never forget as we walk through not just the election but when we’re walking through the world we’re living in. There was nothing to suggest what you just said or, or others have suggested in terms of my interaction. That’s all I can be accountable for.”

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Sunday that air traffic controller shortages are causing a “level of risk” that might necessitate flight delays and cancellations to ensure traveller safety as the government shutdown drags on. Appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” with host Martha Raddatz, Duffy was asked about various issues being caused by air traffic control shortages. “Americans have experienced major delay. There’s a ground stop this morning at Newark all because air traffic controllers are calling in sick. The FAA is saying that currently, nearly 50% of major air traffic control facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 80% of air traffic controllers are out at New York-area facilities,” Raddatz said. “We know that safety is your greatest concern, but at some point, might you have to shut down portions of the U.S. airspace, maybe even airports? What point are we at that possibility?” After noting that he’s been speaking with air traffic controllers who are understandably frustrated as “Democrats are focusing on illegal health care,” Duffy stated that the administration will do what’s necessary to ensure passenger safety. “We will delay, we will cancel any kind of flight across the national airspace to make sure people are safe. But there is a level of risk that gets injected into the system when we have a controller that’s doing two jobs instead of one. We manage that, we look out for it, and safety is the priority. We’ll take all steps necessary, though, to make sure that you get from point A to point B, and you do it safely,” Duffy said. Transportation Sec. Duffy warns of a “level of risk” when air traffic controllers are stretched too thin, but says that safety is his department’s priority: “We will delay, we will cancel, any kind of flight across the national airspace to make sure people are safe.”… pic.twitter.com/CALMD4sufL — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 2, 2025 Raddatz also pressed Duffy on a timeline: “How close are we to this point where you might have to close air space or airports as we watch air traffic controllers calling in sick?” Duffy responded that as expenses pile up for air traffic controllers who aren’t being paid, decisions will have to be made on supplemental employment. Join us now during our exclusive Deal of the Decade. Get everything for $7 a month. Not as fans. As fighters. Go to DailyWire.com/Subscribe to join now. “And the problem is these controllers, a lot of them are new controllers, or they’re trainee controllers. They don’t make a lot of money, and so they may be the only person that is bringing money into the household. They have to make a decision: do I go to work and not get a paycheck and not put food on the table, or do I drive for Uber or Door Dash or wait tables?” “I hope Democrats are going to come to their senses and open the government back up. But I would just tell you, as bad as it is, the numbers you just gave … if the government doesn’t open in the next week or two, we’ll look back as these were the good days, not the bad days. It’s only going to get worse,” the Transportation Secretary said. “If the government doesn’t open in the next week or two, we’ll look back as these were the good days, not the bad days.” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy speaks with @martharaddatz about the growing difficulty ATC workers face while going without pay. https://t.co/x73HSd9XsC pic.twitter.com/mZpj7sku0n — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 2, 2025