Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not Palestinians as a group. But two of Israel’s best-known rights groups — long critical of Israeli policy — now say they disagree.

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The biggest name in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book back in 2003 was a past president rather than a future one.

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After a lot of big talk on trade, the Trump administration needed a big win. It appears to have just gotten one.

At a news conference on the trade deal, a reporter asked Mr. Trump whether he had rushed the agreement forward in an attempt to knock the Epstein story line out of the news. “You’ve got to be kidding,” a frustrated Mr. Trump responded. “That had nothing to do with it.”

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Amichay Eliyahu’s comments came amid growing hunger in the territory, where Israel controls the delivery of food.

Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population.

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As the military had warned, combat operations continued otherwise. Health officials in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 38 Palestinians from late Saturday into Sunday, including 23 seeking aid. An airstrike on a Gaza City apartment killed a woman and her four children. Another strike killed four people, including a boy, his mother and grandfather, in the eastern Zaytoun neighborhood.

The most recent AP-NORC poll, from July, puts Trump at 40% approval. While that is not a meaningful change from March, there is some evidence that Trump’s support may be softening, at least on the margins. The July poll showed a slight decrease in approval of his handling of immigration since earlier in the year. Some other pollsters, such as Gallup, show a downward slide in overall approval since slightly earlier in his term, in January.

If Trump eventually makes good on his threat of tariffs against Europe, it could make everything from French cheese and Italian leather goods to German electronics and Spanish pharmaceuticals more expensive in the United States.

To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

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For the third time in as many months, US and Chinese officials will meet in Europe for trade talks — and this time, Beijing is arriving at the negotiating table more emboldened than ever.

President Trump is trying to divert attention from the Epstein conspiracy theory with a new-and-improved one about Barack Obama and treason.

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