Hamas forced emaciated Israeli hostage Evyatar David to dig his own grave in a sick new propaganda video, as the twisted terror group continued to stall negotiations to release the remaining living captives. In the nearly 5-minute clip released Friday, the 24-year-old David is seen in a tunnel with a ceiling roughly as high as he is tall, crossing off dates on a calendar and digging a grave. “I haven’t eaten for a few days in a row,” David says in the footage.

Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee announced she is running for governor after more than six years in the upper chamber. "In his first six months, President Trump has made historic strides in Making America Great Again, but as he sends power back to the states, he’s going to need strong conservative governors who can bring that revolution home. I’m running to serve as Tennessee’s next governor to ensure Tennessee is America’s conservative leader," Blackburn said in a...

The brother of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip has told the BBC that a Hamas video showing him emaciated and weak is a "new form of cruelty" that has left his parents shattered. Hamas released the footage of Evyatar David, 24, on Saturday, drawing strong condemnation from Israel and Western leaders.

After the US House Speaker, Mike Johnson, sent lawmakers home early for recess in July, he said if they were so concerned about releasing records related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, they could have sought them during Joe Biden’s presidency.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown likely factored into the slowdown in employment gains in the past few months. While various influences determine employment levels, immigration is one factor, other than tariffs, that has changed perhaps the most since President Donald Trump entered office.

Apple Inc will announce a domestic manufacturing pledge of $100 billion on Wednesday that will focus on bringing more manufacturing to the United States, a White House official said. The pledge would be a new financial commitment on top of what Apple has already pledged, the official said on customary condition of anonymity. The Reuters Tariff Watch newsletter is your daily guide to the latest global trade and tariff news. Sign up here. Apple said in February it would ...

First and most obviously: The government of Israel needs to rush, in abundant quantities and to immediate and undeniable effect, food and medicine to the places in Gaza that desperately need them. This is as much a matter of self-interest as it is of humanitarianism. Few things hurt Israel more than the global perception, however tendentious, that it’s deliberately starving kids. Nothing helps Hamas more, either. Whatever benefits Hamas might derive from the aid pale next to the propaganda...

President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that Washington views the question of how Israel proceeds militarily in Gaza as being up to Jerusalem. Asked by a reporter at the White House, "Would you support Israel ... reoccupying all of Gaza as [has] been suggested by some Israeli officials?" the president claimed he was not familiar with such suggestions, adding, "I can't really say. It will be up to Israel." The president instead emphasized the United States' ongoing focus on...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) faces a difficult test in rallying GOP colleagues to change the Senate’s rules to speed up the confirmation of approximately 140 Trump nominees. Changing the Senate’s procedural rules with a simple-majority vote is sometimes called the “nuclear option” because it’s viewed as an extreme tactic. In this case, many Republicans are ready to go “nuclear” because they think Democrats are unfairly holding up a number of lower-level,...

The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted. Kennedy’s decision to terminate the projects is the latest in a string of decisions that have put the longtime vaccine critic’s...