Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special envoy, is expected to visit Russia this week to try to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

President Donald Trump‘s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Russia this week for one last face-to-face meeting before the president’s shortened 10-day window for a deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war expires.

The Israeli prime minister is said to be looking at fully occupying the strip including areas where Israeli hostages are held

The Washington Post reports U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told the families of Israeli hostages in Gaza that there is a plan to bring the hostages home and end the war. MSNBC foreign affairs analyst and former Special Assistant to President Obama Dennis Ross joins Erielle Reshef to discuss this news and explain why President Trump himself may hold the key to negotiating the end of the war.

Israeli media are reporting that Benjamin Netanyahu has decided on full occupation of Gaza

A clause in FEMA’s terms and conditions mandating states to maintain commercial ties with Israel and Israeli companies to be allowed access to federal emergency funds was quietly removed on Monday.Vie

The Trump administration on Monday reversed course on requiring U.S. cities and states to rebuke boycotts of Israeli companies in order to receive disaster funds, according to a statement, and deleted the earlier policy from its website.

Cities and states that boycott Israeli companies will be ineligible for federal disaster preparedness aid, according to new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding guidelines. A series of grant notices posted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Friday required applicants to comply with the “terms and conditions” issued by the DHS in April,