The daughter of an American-Israeli hostage freed from captivity over the weekend, the latest release in the Gaza ceasefire deal, said he spent long periods in isolation and lost a drastic amount of weight. The six-week first phase of the truce calls for the release of 33 hostages and nearly 2,000 prisoners, as well as the return of Palestinians to northern Gaza and an increase in humanitarian aid to the devastated territory. Israel and Hamas are beginning to negotiate a second phase of the ceasefire, which calls for releasing the remaining hostages and extending the truce indefinitely.
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the U.S. to take steps to start developing a government-owned investment fund that he said could be used to profit off of TikTok if he's successful at finding it an American buyer. Trump signed an order on his first day office to grant the Chinese-owned TikTok until early April to find a domestic partner or buyer, but he's said he's looking for the U.S. to take a 50% stake in the massive social media platform. “We might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make or we do a partnership with very wealthy people, a lot of options,” he said of TikTok.
Automaker stocks tumbled on Monday following impending imposition of President Trump’s tariffs on goods coming from Canada and Mexico.
Major stock market indices opened the week down after President Donald Trump announced tariffs on Canada and China, while stating late Monday morning that duties against Mexico would be put on hold.
Crews began the complex job of lifting American Airlines Flight 5432 from the Potomac River after it collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter in the Washington, D.C. area.
The U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement Monday to delay a 25% tariff on all Mexican imports for one month, after Mexico agreed to ramp up security at its border — averting, at least for now, a move that could have driven up prices for U.S. consumers and stalled both countries' economies.
In the rolling hills of Kentucky where most of the world's bourbon supply is crafted, the prospect of a new trade war feels like an aching hangover that won't go away. Kentucky bourbon producers again find themselves in the crosshairs as a target for retaliation after President Donald Trump ordered new tariffs on U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico. On Monday, Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum put their planned tariffs on hold for a month to give time for further negotiations.
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Monday moved to force through France's budget without a vote but looked certain to keep his job -- for now -- thanks to support from the Socialists in the bitterly divided parliament. But even if the far-right National Rally (RN) party decides to back the vote this week, Bayrou appears certain to keep his job for now, after the Socialist Party decided against backing the motion, giving the prime minister a much-needed boost.
NY Gov. Hochul said her state would refuse extradition request, saying shield law protects providers who send abortion pills out of state.
Ugandan authorities on Monday began a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola that has killed one person in the outbreak declared last week. This is the first trial to assess the efficacy of a vaccine against the Sudan strain, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. Health workers and others exposed to the Ebola strain are being targeted in the study, which began four days after Uganda announced the death of a nurse in the capital, Kampala.
AMD will report its Q4 earnings after the bell on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually. Mexico agreed Monday to send 10,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a deal with Trump to pause the tariffs for a month — and hold off levying its own. Neither Canada nor China has signaled major changes to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and each has said it would retaliate for any U.S. tariffs.
President Donald Trump made Elon Musk, who heads his Department of Government Efficiency, a special government employee at the White House.
Companies in a wide range of industries are seeing their stocks come under pressure Monday on Wall Street because of tariff threats from President Donald Trump. Automakers, technology companies and retailers all fell as the U.S., Mexico, Canada and China wrangled over tariffs. Trump said over the weekend that 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico would go into effect Tuesday, along with 10% tariffs on imports from China.
Shops and businesses across the U.S. are closed for a day to show support for communities impacted by Trump's immigration policies.
Elon Musk, the world's richest person and President Donald Trump's controversial close advisor, said Monday the giant USAID humanitarian agency will be "shutting down" as part of his radical -- and critics say unconstitutional -- drive to shrink the US government.The SpaceX and Tesla CEO -- who has massive contracts with the US government and was the biggest financial backer of Trump's campaign -- said he had personally cleared the unprecedented move with the president.
Two Democratic senators on the committee that will get to decide whether to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination say his recent financial disclosure filing gave them “grave concern” about whether he should become the next health and human services secretary.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday told hospitals that they would be violating state law if they stop offering gender-affirming care for people under age 19 in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump aimed at curtailing federal funding for such treatments. In a letter, James told health care facilities that refusing to provide the treatments would violate New York's anti-discrimination laws.
The U.S. Justice Department formed a multi-agency task force on Monday to fight antisemitism, with its first priority "rooting out" antisemitic harassment in schools and universities. The task force follows an executive order and fact sheet from President Donald Trump last week in which he warned "resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests" that they would be deported, referring to pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses. Trump also pledged to revoke the student visas of what he called "Hamas sympathizers" and directed his cabinet to familiarize U.S. universities with immigration law against foreigners who pose security threats.
The international community must take concrete action and impose sanctions on Rwanda to curb the M23 rebel conflict in eastern Congo and keep the peace in the wider region, Congo's communications minister told Reuters on Monday. An ongoing escalation has displaced around half a million more people and led to the capture last week of Congo's largest eastern city Goma, fanning fears of regional wars like those that killed millions between 1996 and 2003, most from hunger and disease. Foreign powers including the U.S. and the European Union have condemned Rwanda's involvement in the fighting, which U.N. reports have said includes the deployment of thousands of its own troops and weapons in support of the Tutsi-led M23 militia.