Monday October 13, 2025
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World & Nation
President Trump declares an ‘end of an age of terror and death’ to raucous applause in Israel’s parliament
President Trump declared Monday that the cease-fire in Gaza is the “end
of an age of terror and death” and the “historic dawn of a new Middle
East” as he spoke to Israel’s governing body.
The president received a loud ovation as he was introduced to the
Knesset hours after all living hostages were freed by Hamas as part of
a truce deal between the terror group and Israel.
“This is the end of an age of terror and death and the beginning of the age of faith and hope and of God,” he said.
US President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset in Jerusalem.
“It’s the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony for Israel and
all the nations of what will soon be a truly magnificent region. I
believe that so strongly, this is the historic dawn of a new Middle
East.”
Hamas Releases 20 Hostages as Trump Arrives: 'The War Is Over'
Hamas released all 20 remaining living hostages held in Gaza on Monday,
while Israel began releasing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners as part
of a ceasefire pausing two years of war that pummeled the territory, as
President Donald Trump arrived in Israel, declaring "the war is over."
Cheering crowds greeted buses of prisoners in the West Bank, while
families and friends of the hostages gathered in a square in Tel Aviv,
Israel, cried out with joy and relief as news arrived that the captives
were free.
The hostages, all men, have arrived back in Israel, where they will
reunite with family and undergo medical checks. The bodies of the
remaining 28 dead hostages are also expected to be handed over as part
of the deal, although the exact timing remained unclear.
Trump: Inflation Is 'Defeated'
Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly
higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President
Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn't know it from
listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation
fighters at the Federal Reserve.
Trump told the United Nations General Assembly late last month:
“Grocery prices are down, mortgage rates are down, and inflation has
been defeated.”
And at a high-profile speech in August, just before the Fed cut its key
interest rate for the first time this year, Federal Reserve Chair
Jerome Powell said: “Inflation, though still somewhat elevated, has
come down a great deal from its post-pandemic highs. Upside risks to
inflation have diminished.”
Medvedev: US Supplying Ukraine Tomahawks May End Badly for All, Especially Trump
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said Monday that supplying
U.S. Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could end badly for everyone,
especially President Donald Trump.
Medvedev, an arch-hawk who has repeatedly goaded Trump on social media,
said it is impossible to distinguish between Tomahawk missiles carrying
nuclear warheads and conventional ones after they are launched – a
point that President Vladimir Putin's spokesman has also made.
"How should Russia respond? Exactly!" Medvedev said on Telegram, appearing to hint that Moscow's response would be nuclear.
Trump said again Sunday that he might offer long-range Tomahawk
missiles that could be used by Kyiv if Putin does not end the war in
Ukraine.
JD Vance battles ABC's George Stephanopoulos over bribery allegations against Tom Homan
Vice President JD Vance clashed with ABC News host George
Stephanopoulos on Sunday as the vice president denied border czar Tom
Homan accepted a bribe and accused the ABC host of losing credibility,
leading the interview to abruptly end.
Stephanopoulos pressed Vance repeatedly on whether Homan accepted money
and said Homan was "recorded on an audiotape in September 2024, an FBI
surveillance tape, accepting $50,000 in cash."
MSNBC reported in September that Homan allegedly took $50,000 in cash
in September 2024 from undercover FBI agents he believed were business
executives after suggesting he could help them secure government
contracts with a second Trump administration. The outlet reported that
the FBI said the investigation into Homan closed and the White House
said at the time that Homan never even accepted the money in the first
place, and said that Trump did not ask the Justice Department to
shutter the probe.
China Locks Down Minerals to Squeeze US in Trade War
In a dramatic escalation of the economic standoff between China and the
United States, Beijing has moved to intensify its control over rare
earth minerals and magnet technologies — a strategic gambit to block
trade and open a new front in the trade war.
U.S. industries and policymakers are scrambling to respond to what some
analysts warn is Beijing's increasing ability to weaponize its
near-monopoly over critical minerals.
Since at least April 2025, China has imposed strict export licensing
requirements on seven rare earth elements and magnet materials — among
them samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and
yttrium — citing "national security" and dual-use concerns.
The Beltway bubble leads Democrats off a political cliff
The Schumer shutdown is the Seinfeld shutdown — because it’s a shutdown about nothing
If you want to know the headlines that the few thousand people who run
Washington read in the morning, check the three big platforms that used
to be big newspapers — the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and
the Washington Post — the two big news networks that dominate online
traffic — FoxNews.com and CNN.com — and the four "newsletters" that are
avidly read within the Beltway even though they barely make a ripple
outside of it: Axios, Semafor, Politico and Punchbowl News.
That’s nine total landing pages. Check them all tomorrow and every day
thereafter that the "Schumer Shutdown," named justly for Democratic
Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), goes on. Those nine pages will
slowly, but surely, chart the rising cost to Democrats of the
shuttering of the government. Schumer lost three votes from his caucus
on Tuesday night and the pressure is only going to grow with every day
that goes by.
The nine landing pages all joined on Wednesday in either the "both
sides are responsible" if they are liberal outlets, or the other
approach favored by the neutrals: "Federal Government shuts down!"
Kamala Harris’ flaws on full display during her tour de farce book tour
Kamala Harris is on a ridiculous, 15-city “international” book tour,
during which she tells the gullible women who line up for hours to see
her that she only missed out on being president by a whisker.
She claims 2024 was the “closest presidential election in the 21st century.”
Everyone knows this is a “lie,” as Donald Trump said in a heated Truth
Social post, listing the details of his “LANDSLIDE!” victory. He won
the Electoral College 312-226, won counties nationwide by 2,600-525,
won all seven swing states and won the popular vote by millions.
