https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5547121-trump-7-wars-nobel-peace-prize
President Trump’s moment of truth as a global peacemaker will come early Friday morning when the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded.
Trump has made no secret of his desire to win the prize.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, he raised the count to eight, adding the Gaza ceasefire announced Wednesday to his list.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-ceasefire-agreement-10-09-25
• Plan approved: Terms of the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal are in effect after Israel’s government approved a US-brokered plan, according to two officials. But it’s unclear whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the military to stop fighting.
• US role: The US is sending 200 troops to the Middle East to monitor the plan’s implementation alongside soldiers from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the UAE, a senior official said. “No US troops are intended to go into Gaza,” another official said.
• What’s in the deal: The release of all hostages, Israeli military withdrawal to an agreed point and the release of some Palestinian prisoners. Hamas said a “formal declaration” ending the war must be made before hostages are released.
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-trump-win-nobel-peace-prize-israel-hamas-10855209
The deadline for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize nominations was January 31, just two weeks after the president’s inauguration. Foreign leaders who said they would nominate Trump for the prize said as much well after the deadline, although the committee has the option of adding further names at a meeting on February 28.
However, BBC reported that the five-person committee finalized the list of winners for this year’s prizes at a meeting on Monday, which is “without appeal.”
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-gaza-israel-hamas-steve-witkoff-jared-kushner-peace-deal-10856973
Witkoff and Kushner were instrumental in helping secure the ceasefire agreement that Trump announced Wednesday, nine days after Netanyahu’s visit to the White House.
The pair, both New York-based investors, offered key concessions to Netanyahu regarding Gaza’s postwar future in order to win his support, according to several sources with knowledge of the talks. Those concessions included watering down language about Palestinian statehood that was included in previous peace plans put forth by Arab states earlier this year, these people said.
While Trump’s comments sparked swift backlash from women and the medical community, he doubled down on his position following Kennedy’s wild claim Thursday.
“There’s a tremendous amount of proof or evidence, I would say as a non-doctor,” said the president, adding that he studied the controversial topic “a long time ago.”
“Just don’t take it. You have to tough it through sometimes. I’m addressing it as best I can as a non-doctor, but I’m a man of common sense.”
https://www.kgns.tv/2025/10/09/autism-highly-likely-linked-tylenol-circumcision-rfk-jr-says
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed Thursday in a cabinet meeting that there may be a link between circumcision and autism.
The health secretary stated that it was due to the administration of Tylenol to infants following the procedure.
“There are two studies which show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, it’s highly likely, because they were given Tylenol,” Kennedy is quoted by the New York Post as telling President Donald Trump in Thursday’s meeting.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-869898
If the current Israel-Hamas deal holds and the war is in fact over, a major key to ending the war was new concessions by both sides and the sequencing of the strategic military issues in dispute.
The final sequence to end the war was completely different from both Israeli and Hamas positions at other key points, such as summer 2024 and early 2025, when the war might have ended.
Qatar, Turkey, and US President Donald Trump brought new levels of pressure to bear on both sides. A scorecard of concessions and "ties" between the sides shows that both sides are making concessions now that they did not make in prior rounds, though ultimately Israel has more of the upper hand in terms of leverage.
The man who carried out an attack at a synagogue in Manchester, in the north of England, that left two victims dead and four others injured last week “pledged allegiance” to the Islamic State in a call to law enforcement, according to counter terrorism police.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/xkqols4do
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office responded to a publication in the American website "Politico" claiming that the PM's apology to Qatar at the White House was dictated by the Americans, and that a representative from Doha was present to supervise the conversation. "This is fake news. Prime Minister Netanyahu's remarks in his conversation with the Prime Minister of Qatar were determined by the Prime Minister in consultation with his professional team only. Regarding the Qatari official, he was present only during the conversation at the invitation of the American team, and there was no contact with the Israeli team," the office stated.
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-hamas-gaza-war-10-08-25
• Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a US-brokered ceasefire framework that will allow for the swift release of all hostages held in Gaza, Israeli withdrawal to an agreed point and the release of some Palestinian prisoners.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/415995
In photos released from Egypt, members of the Israeli, American, and Qatari delegations can be seen hugging and shaking Hands.
The Saudi channel Al-Hadath reported later that Hamas and Israel will sign a ceasefire agreement on Thursday at 12:00 noon.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote: "With God's help we will bring them all home".
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-inside-political-enemies-17f13f72?mod=hp_lead_pos9
In his second term, President Trump has taken control of the Justice Department in ways he could have only dreamed of during his first.
Then, he publicly railed against senior department officials but largely heeded the counsel of aides who urged him to trust the legal process. This term, all it took was one errant post to get what he wanted.
