Here’s what to know about the hostages whose bodies have been returned to Israel — or who remain in Gaza as pressure mounts on Hamas to turn them over.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/14/hamas-gaza-israel-hostages-killed/
President Prabowo Subianto wants assert Indonesia’s influence on the global stage — and foster closer ties to President Donald Trump.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/15/indonesia-gaza-peace-process/
Offering Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine has been suggested as a way of pressuring Russia to return to the negotiating table.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/15/zelensky-trump-ukraine-tomahawks-russia-hegseth/
With the victory lap over, now comes thorny issue of building a genuine peace.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/15/israel-middle-east-peace-region-trump-future/
The operation follows Senate Republicans’ narrow defeat of a measure that aimed to prevent the administration’s actions on legal grounds.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/14/trump-drug-boat-venezuela/
A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.https://www.wired.com/story/a-plan-to-rebuild-gaza-lists-nearly-30-companies-many-say-theyre-not-involved/
Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.https://www.wired.com/story/feds-seize-record-breaking-15-billion-in-bitcoin-from-alleged-scam-empire/
About a fifth of the agency’s remaining staff was affected, including employees working on special education, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-education-department-federal-layoffs.html
The president said he would release a list of the cuts on Friday. “We are closing up Democrat programs that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again,” he added.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-threats-democrats-shutdown.html
The cease-fire talks in Egypt showed that with pressure on Hamas and Israel, seemingly huge impediments could be overcome or set aside.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/world/middleeast/us-arab-gaza-deal.html
President Trump’s threats to provide the missiles to Ukraine, whether he follows through on them or not, are a sign of his growing frustration with Moscow.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-tomahawks-ukraine-russia.html
Tariffs and other restrictions between the United States and China are reverberating in unpredictable ways.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/business/economy/us-china-trade-tariffs-global-economy.html
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/trump-drugs-boat-attack.html
The panel’s Republican chairman, Representative Jim Jordan, accused the former special counsel of “prosecutorial misconduct and constitutional abuses.”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/jack-smith-house-judiciary-committee.html
The departures of Todd Gilbert and his deputy in the Western District of Virginia show the pressure being brought on prosecutors to pursue the president’s perceived foes.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/politics/doj-trump-russia-inquiry-prosecutors.html
After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/arts/music/dangelo-dead.html
The video for “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” brought him new levels of fame, but not always the kind of attention he sought.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/arts/music/dangelo-untitled-video.html
The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/arts/music/dangelo-songs-playlist.html
The Trump administration’s embrace of unproven or debunked theories about vaccines and Tylenol has left doctors fielding questions from worried parents.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/health/autism-parents-genetics-vaccines-tylenol.html
This school year, many Texas districts are teaching from an elementary curriculum that features extensive content about the Christian faith, according to a New York Times analysis.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/us/bible-public-school-curriculum-texas.html