A message President Trump posted on Truth Social in September pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute several political opponents was intended to be a direct message, reports say.
The Wall Street Journal reported multiple officials said Trump believed he had sent the message to Bondi privately. NBC also confirmed the message’s private intent with a former Trump administration official.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-869858
"There is a part of the Right that is extraordinarily conspiratorial and sees Jews as a conspiratorial force… It is rising because social media rewards it,” Ben Shapiro said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post last week. “On X and TikTok, you often get more clicks if you push anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric.”
He argued that the dynamic is structural rather than episodic. “You get a lot more likes and clicks if you are promoting an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish agenda than if you are doing the opposite,” he said. “Virtually every conspiracy theory ends up pointing at the Jews because the narrative needs a villain, and it is easier to recycle an old one than to make an honest argument.”
In a recent interview, Shapiro made waves by saying, even as an Orthodox Jew, that one lesson from Kirk was to “go to church.” He did not back away from that line in his interview with the Post. “America is a Christian country,” he said. “The founders were either deists or Christians, drawing on a 2,000-year Christian tradition with Judaic roots. Saying otherwise is dishonest and counterproductive. People who go to church tend to engage with a biblical morality that is valuable.
In the days before his murder, Charlie Kirk was frustrated — and he wasn’t hiding it from his friends. The conservative influencer complained in a WhatsApp group that his “Jewish donors” were “playing into all the stereotypes” and said they were pushing him to “leave the pro-Israel cause.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416099
Israeli intelligence locates document instructing Hamas terrorists to harm IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians, set entire towns on fire, and document their actions, The New York Times reports.
In July, Trump reportedly called Jens Stoltenberg, Norway’s finance minister and the former Nato secretary general, to ask about the Nobel prize. At the UN last month, Trump falsely claimed that he had halted seven “unendable wars”, telling world leaders: “Everyone says I should get the Nobel peace prize.”
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller sparked a controversy during a live CNN interview this week after claiming that President Donald Trump had “plenary authority”. Miller is under fire for saying Trump has "plenary authority"-the absolute power to make the decision- while discussing the deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon.
Plenary authority refers to a single government official having absolute power on a particular matter, reports The Independent. Plenary authority means complete, absolute, or full power to act on a particular matter, without needing approval or limitation from another body. In this case, it refers to when a president or governor claims full decision-making power within their constitutional limits.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqx7ygq41o
Now the agreement has been formally approved by the Israeli cabinet, a ceasefire is meant to be in effect - though reports overnight suggest Israeli air strikes have continued in some areas.
The Israeli military will now withdraw to a line that will leave it in control of about 53% of the Strip, according to a spokesperson for the Israeli prime minister's office. A map distributed by the White House last week indicates this is the first of three stages of Israeli withdrawal.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that preparations were under way to "transition to adjusted deployment lines soon".
After this, a 72-hour countdown will begin during which Hamas must release all 20 of the hostages believed to be alive. The return of the bodies of the 28 deceased hostages would follow, although it is not clear how long that could take.
Israel would then release about 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli jails and 1,700 detainees from Gaza, a Palestinian source told the BBC. Their identities are currently unclear, but a list submitted by Hamas before the agreement was reached included high-profile figures serving multiple life sentences for deadly attacks on Israelis.
One of the most high-profile prisoners, Marwan Barghouti, will not be released as part of the swap, according to the Israeli spokesperson.
Israel will also return the bodies of 15 Gazans for the remains of each Israeli hostage, according to Trump's plan.
Hundreds of lorries carrying humanitarian aid will also start entering Gaza, where a famine was confirmed by UN-backed experts in August.
Trump's plan specified that 600 lorry loads would be delivered each day, but Palestinian sources said there would initially be a daily minimum of 400, with the number increasing gradually after that.
A multinational force of around 200 troops overseen by the US military will monitor the Gaza ceasefire, according to a senior US official.
The force's makeup is likely to include troops from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the UAE. The official said their role would be to "oversee, observe [and] make sure there are no violations or incursions" of the ceasefire in Gaza.
A second senior US official said no US forces would be on the ground in Gaza.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/416069
The four 'aces' Hamas sought to have freed in the ceasefire agreement will not be freed, but many murderers and mass murderers, including Islamic Jihad and PFLP leaders, will be.
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.
