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 House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media, following a meeting with fellow Republicans on the day where a potential government shutdown looms during the holidays, after a spending bill backed by US President-elect Donald Trump failed in the US House of Representatives, on Capitol Hi

US Congress approves stopgap bill to avoid government shutdown

 Aviva Siegel speaks at a press conference Wednesday, December 18, 2024.

Families of hostages plead for release at US Capitol press conference

 US president-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, US, November 19, 2024.

'Costly to our nation': Trump renews efforts to end daylight-savings time

 ACCORDING TO one Taiwanese NGO, TikTok users in Taiwan are more inclined than others to believe in Chinese videos.

US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from app stores on Jan. 19

 NEWLY ELECTED members of the US Congress pose for a photo on the steps of the Capitol in Washington.

Challenges and opportunities for the Jewish members of the 119th Congress

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he departs for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at Ben Gurion International Airport, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 23, 2024.

US supports Syrian-led transition after Assad’s fall: Blinken

Commander Jared Isaacman of Polaris Dawn, a private human spaceflight mission, speaks at a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 19, 2024. Launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for August 26

Trump picks Jewish space adventurer Jared Isaacman to head NASA

By PHILISSA CRAMER/JTA
 Former president Donald Trump listens as Adam Boehler, the CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, addresses the daily coronavirus task force briefing in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, US, April 14, 2020.

Trump taps Abraham Accords negotiator Adam Boehler as special envoy for hostage affairs

US President-elect Donald Trump participates in an event with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis at the Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, US, July 31, 2020

Trump considers replacing Hegseth with DeSantis to run Pentagon, WSJ reports

By REUTERS
 Activists with the New York Hostages Families Forum protest outside of the UN Women headquarters in New York on December 1..

Activists protest UN Women’s silence on Hamas sexual violence allegations

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks during a dinner with US service members and their families ahead of Thanksgiving in New York.

President Biden mourns slain American hostage Omer Neutra

 U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by Hunter Biden and Beau Jr., walks out of a bookstore in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts, U.S., November 29, 2024.

Biden says he is pardoning his son, Hunter Biden

By REUTERS
 US president-elect Donald Trump attends a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket, in Brownsville, Texas, US, November 19, 2024.

Donald Trump threatens BRICS nations with '100% tariffs' if they replace US dollar

 PRESCOTT VALLEY, ARIZONA - OCTOBER 13: Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of Defense Kash Patel speaks during a campaign rally for U.S. Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump at Findlay Toyota Center on October 13, 2024 in Prescott Valley, Arizona.

Trump picks Kash Patel to head FBI

By REUTERS
 Yael Alexander, mother of hostage Edan Alexander and Varda Ben Baruch, grandmother of Edan Alexander.

Edan Alexander’s parents urge Trump to help secure hostage deal following Hamas video

Charles Kushner attends the funeral for Ivana Trump, socialite and first wife of former U.S. President Donald Trump, at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, in New York City, US, July 20, 2022.

Donald Trump nominates Charles Kushner as US ambassador to France

 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gives a statement to the press, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 29, 2024.

US Senator Lindsey Graham: 'President-elect Trump wants hostage release deal before inauguration'

 IDF troops operating in the Litani River area in Lebanon for first time in over two decades

US official reveals how Israel, Lebanon truce will avoid pitfalls of 2006

 US PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump speaks at an America First Policy Institute gala last week at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.

Majority of US voters support Trump's policy plans for future

 Yehuda Kaploun and Donald Trump.

Trump’s Jewish outreach chief on President-elect's vision for US-Israel relations

 Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida, arrives to the Fiserv Forum on the second day of Republican National Convention, Milwaukee, July 16, 2024.

Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general, wants FBI to question pro-Hamas protesters

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
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