Today, the Trump administration and nearly all Republicans in the House of Representatives took another step toward advancing their top economic priority: keeping taxes for the wealthy and corporation...

"I don't feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."

What can more than 100 years of the international justice system tell us about its present and future? In this episode of Expert Witness, Professor William Schabas, world leading scholar of international criminal law and genocide, reflects on his decades of experience as an academic lawyer and genocide expert, and the challenges facing international law after Israel’s war on Gaza in 2023. Schabas is the former president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and the author of more than 20 books on genocide, the International Criminal Court, and international human rights law.

2025 has been a difficult year for transgender people. Over 850 bills targeting the community have been filed, the most in United States history.

<article data-history-node-id="421428" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-ready-take-part-comprehensive-package-ceasefire-negotiations" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-ready-take-part-comprehensive-package-ceasefire-negotiations" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Hamas ready to take part in ‘comprehensive package’ ceasefire negotiations</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">Hamas’s head of its negotiating delegation Khalil Al-Hayya said on Friday that the group is ready to “immediately engage in comprehensive package negotiations”, whereby all Israeli captives would be released, along with an agreed-upon number of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a complete halt of the war in Gaza and the start of the reconstruction plan.</p> <p>&nbsp;He blamed Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government &nbsp;for exploiting the partial agreements of the ceasefire “as a cover for their political agenda”.</p> <p>Al-Hayya also welcomed the stance of Adam Boehler, the special envoy of US President Trump, regarding the conclusion of the prisoners and war file together.</p> <p>He said: “This aligns with the movement’s stance of readiness to reach a comprehensive agreement on a full-package prisoner exchange, in return for ending the war, the withdrawal of the occupation from the Gaza Strip, and the reconstruction”.</p> <p>Al-Hayya finally called upon the international community to intervene and exert more efforts to lift Israel’s weeks-long blockade on aid to the Strip.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Assad al-Nassasra, who has been missing since the deadly Israeli attack that killed 15 emergency workers in March, is being detained by the Israeli authorities

<article data-history-node-id="421213" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/six-palestinians-killed-israeli-air-strikes-gaza-city" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/six-palestinians-killed-israeli-air-strikes-gaza-city" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Six Palestinians killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza City</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Wafa news agency is reporting that six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, in the north of the Strip.</p> <p>Al Jazeera previously reported that three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli shelling targeting the neighbourhood.</p> </div> </div> </article>

An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday, a month after he was arrested in New York and transferred 1,200 miles to a rural Louisiana jail.