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• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office cited Hamas’s refusal “to release our hostages” in authorizing the first major strikes since the cease-fire.
• The health ministry in Gaza said more than 300 people had been killed.

A Justice Department lawyer refused to answer questions from a judge trying to determine whether the Trump administration’s deportations violated an order.

A New York Times review showed that at the time of a federal judge’s order, two deportation flights were in the air, and one had not yet taken off.

In a conservative district and a more liberal one, two Republican representatives found anxiety about the Trump administration’s agenda and their support of it.

Many corporate leaders believed President Trump would use tariffs as a negotiating tool. As it turns out, he sees them as an end in themselves.

A standoff at the independent agency ended with police involvement and the Department of Government Efficiency taking up residence.

In an echo of the Yalta Conference in 1945, the American and Russian leaders will talk about who gets what in the process of ending the war in Ukraine.

The Los Angeles Dodgers star is a marketer’s dream — both a sports icon and national hero in Japan. He has about 20 active sponsorship deals at any time.