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Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he "won't negotiate" with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

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Senior Justice Department prosecutor Maggie Cleary, who briefly led the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia last month, has reportedly been removed from office.

Under the euphemism of “pupil and student safety,” Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a requirement that California’s public schools, middle school through college, include the number for the radical Trevor Project’s “LGBTQ+ suicide hotline” on student identification cards. The existing California law had already required that all student IDs — at public and private […]

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The planned deposition of former President Bill Clinton before the House Oversight Committee in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation won't happen Tuesday, The New York Sun reported.

Republicans should know by now what happens when they step into left-wing lion’s dens like ABC’s “This Week.” But on Sunday, Vice President J.D. Vance didn’t just survive the ambush […]

The post Stephanopoulos Cuts off JD Vance, Ends Interview After He's Called Out for Going Down 'Weird Left-Wing Rabbit Hole' appeared first on The Western Journal.

'It’s not really a peace deal'

President Donald Trump cast his vision for a prosperous Middle East as he spoke before world leaders in Israel and Egypt.  

Together, Israel and America will “build a legacy that all the people of this region can be proud of,” Trump said while standing before the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, only hours after the 20-remaining living hostages were set free after two years in Hamas captivity. 

With a ceasefire holding between Israel and Hamas that the U.S. played a central role in brokering, and negotiations underway for a permanent end to the war, Trump called for lasting peace and collaboration in the Middle East.  

“So instead of building fortresses to keep enemies at bay, the nations of this region should be building infrastructure to weave your commerce closer together, because you’ve got to compete with a big world out there in commerce,” Trump said.  

President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, Oct. 13. (Evelyn Hockstein – Pool via Getty Images)

“Instead of making weapons and missiles, the wealth of this region should flow to schools and medicine, industry, and frankly, the new hot thing, artificial intelligence,” the president continued.  

The Abraham Accords is the central tool Trump spoke of to bring about collaboration and prosperity in the Middle East.  

“It’s my firm hope and dream, frankly, that together, the Abraham Accords will turn out to be everything that we thought they would,” Trump said.  

The Abraham Accords, which were signed during Trump’s first administration, normalized relations between Israel and four other nations, Morocco, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Sudan, although the agreement with Sudan has been affected by the Sudanese Civil War. The accords aim to foster peace and healthy trade relations between Israel and counties in the Middle East and North Africa, and are named after Abraham, a significant religious figure for Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike.    

The nations who chose to join the Abraham Accords are now “among the most successful in the region,” Trump said as he urged additional counties to enter the agreement, a sentiment the president further stressed during the “Summit for Peace” held in Egypt Monday immediately following Trump’s visit to Israel.  

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi greeted Trump in Sharm el-Sheikh, about 300 miles southeast of Cairo for the meeting that drew leaders from about two dozen nations, including Britain, Canada, France, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Egypt, Quatar, and Turkey. Netanyahu did not participate in the summit due to a Jewish holiday.  

Trump described the participating nations as “among the most powerful counties in the world,” and the “richest.”  

“We have achieved together in recent days a change that really is historic, and it’s going to be remembered forever,” Trump said of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas which mediators from Egypt, Quatar, Turkey, and the U.S. led the way in negotiating.  

“The momentous breakthrough that we’re here to celebrate tonight is more than the end of the war in Gaza, it’s, with God’s help, it’ll be the new beginning for an entire beautiful Middle East,” Trump said.  

Trump urged the nations in the region to “join the Abraham Accord,” telling world leaders there is now “no excuses.”  

“We don’t have a Gaza, and we don’t have Iran as an excuse. That was a good excuse, but we don’t have that anymore,” Trump said. 

Discussions of peace and greater collaboration in the Middle East come about four months after the U.S. crippled Iran’s nuclear program, which posed an immediate threat to Israel and region, through three major targeted strikes.  

“All the momentum now is toward a great, glorious, and lasting peace, and our commitment to fulfilling the 20-point plan we developed together will be the crucial foundation for achieving that bright future,” the president said.  

Trump proposed a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza in early October. Israel immediately agreed to the plan and Hamas accepted parts of the plan, leading to the ceasefire and hostage deal.  

The subsequent phases of the peace deal are “being worked on right now as we speak, and we’re actually in stage three and four,” Trump said.  

Trump and world leaders are expected to work together on long-term goals for a stable government in Gaza through a “Board of Peace.”  

“We’ve all agreed that supporting Gaza must be done to lift up the people themselves, but we don’t want to fund anything having to do with bloodshed, hatred, or terror,” Trump said, adding, “We’re going to make sure that the Middle East is going to be a safe and secure place.”  

The post Trump Casts Vision of Prosperous, Peaceful Middle East Following Israel-Hamas Ceasefire  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The state of Minnesota told the Trump administration on Friday that it would not provide a "substantive response" to a demand the state ban transgender-identifying males from female sports and spaces. 

The post Minnesota Says it Will Not Respond to Trump Admin’s Demand to Ban Trans Athletes Until ‘Extensive’ Review appeared first on Breitbart.

Tearful reunions were captured on video Monday as the last 20 living Israeli hostages were released from Hamas captivity in Gaza and reunited with their […]

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