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American hostage Keith Siegel freed from Gaza

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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American Keith Siegel has been released from captivity Saturday morning in Gaza City where he was taken onto a stage wearing a cap, flanked by masked Hamas forces.
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'Important opportunity': DNC chair candidates reveal how they will rebound after disastrous 2024 results

  • News source: FOX News
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Nearly three months after Democrats' major setbacks up and down the ballot in the 2024 elections, the party gathers on Saturday to choose new leadership.

It's the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) first formal step to try and emerge from the political wilderness and rebound in upcoming elections after President Donald Trump recaptured the White House and Republicans flipped the Senate, held onto their fragile majority in the House and made major gains with working-class, minority and younger voters.

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Two Israeli hostages handed to Red Cross in Khan Younis

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ofer Kalderon, 53, and Yarden Bibas, 34, were taken during the 7 October attacks.
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Venezuela frees 6 Americans after meeting between President Maduro and Trump's envoy

  • News source: Regina Garcia Cano | The Associated Press and
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Six Americans who had been detained in Venezuela in recent months were freed by the government of President Nicolás Maduro after he met Friday with a Trump administration official tasked with urging the authoritarian leader to take back deported migrants who have committed crimes in the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell, announced the release of the six men on social media. The visit by Grenell came as a shock to many Venezuelans who hoped that Trump would continue the “maximum pressure”...
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Small plane crashes into Philadelphia neighbourhood, causing explosions

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The small plane was carrying six people and crashed into homes in a busy neighbourhood.
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Father of youngest hostage among three men to be released on Saturday, Hamas says

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Yarden Bibas and two others will be exchanged for more Palestinian prisoners in the fourth swap since the ceasefire began.
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EU foreign policy chief says defence spending must rise

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Kaja Kallas says Europe needs to increase investment to keep pace with threats facing the continent.
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Over 90% of U.S. airport towers are understaffed, data shows

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the controllers' union, according to a CBS News analysis of FAA data.

The issue has received renewed scrutiny following Wednesday night's midair collision between an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people.

Only one air traffic control worker was managing the...
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More than 1,100 EPA employees warned of immediate termination

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Marie Owens-Powell, president of the union that represents more than 8,500 employees of the Environmental Protection Agency, did not mince words during a Friday call about morale among its members: "It's bad. I've been with the agency for over 33 years and I've never seen anything like this."

Starting Wednesday morning, more than 1,100 employees at the EPA received an email, which has been viewed by CBS News, warning they could be immediately fired because of their probationary status as an employee with less than a year in their current role.

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Former senior adviser for Federal Reserve indicted on economic espionage charges

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was arrested on charges of conspiring with Chinese officials to steal Federal Reserve trade secrets, federal court filings unsealed Friday revealed.

Prosecutors allege that John Harold Rogers conspired with people in China to steal trade secrets from the Fed's Board of Governors and Open Market Committee and made false statements to the Federal Reserve inspector general.

The indictment alleges that Rogers exploited his relationship with the Federal Reserve and gave information to...
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DOJ directs FBI to fire 8 top officials, identify employees involved in Jan. 6, Hamas cases for review

  • News source: FOX News
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Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo to the acting FBI director Friday evening directing him to
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Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Canada PM contender over Trump tariffs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The prime ministerial candidate responds to Donald Trump imposing 25% tariffs on Canada.
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Venezuela frees six US men after Trump envoy meets Maduro

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The move follows talks in Caracas between the Venezuelan leader and Trump official Richard Grenell.
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What we know so far about Washington DC plane crash

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Sixty-seven people are believed to have died in Wednesday's disaster, which is being investigated.
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Breaking down Trump's response to deadly midair crash

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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On a national day of mourning after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush told the nation that the tragedy had brought political parties together in a kinship of grief, with no room for politics. But President Trump took on a different tone Thursday after another national tragedy -- the deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C. Margaret Brennan explains.
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