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I'm Jail Snyder speaking to reporters outside the White House Wednesday, President Trump's
“press secretary, Caroline Levitt, said there is no set deadline for the ceasefire with”
Iran that the President extended on Tuesday. >> The President has not set a firm deadline to receive an Iranian proposal unlike some of the reporting I've seen today.
Ultimately, the timeline will be dictated by the Commander-in-Chief and the President
United States. It also has only President Trump knows how long ceasefire extensions were last. And Iranian President Mosul Pazeskiyon says Iran remains open to discussion, but he says U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and breach of commitments are the main obstacles. We talk stall between the U.S. and Iran Israel and Lebanon are set to hold a second
round of negotiations in Washington today. The first round led to a ten-day ceasefire that posse fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. There have been more reports of violence than the Israeli-occupied West Bank as settlers
“with Molotov cocktails, where film setting fire to a house, Palestinian authorities said”
eight people were injured.
According to the UN, some 36,000 Palestinians have been driven from their homes in the West
Bank since 2023. Here's Imperial Honor Beardsley. >> You can hear the Palestinian family's anguish inside their house as a video surveillance camera captures a group of settlers hurling objects at the dwelling until it catches fire.
Sarat Meheli of Israeli-human rights group but Selam says attacks like this take place on a daily basis. >> The Army and the police, the only bodies that could provide any sort of security or protection for Palestinians are operating the exact opposite purpose. >> Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government includes two top ministers who are
settlers themselves, they consider the West Bank part of the Jewish homeland and call it by its biblical name, Judea and Samaria, Eleanor Beardsley and Pierre News, Tel Aviv. >> Geneva Democratic Attorney General, Jay Jones, says he'll fight a circuit judge's ruling that blocks the state from certifying Tuesday's redistricting referendum for Geneva voters narrowly approved a ballot measure that could boost Democrats' chances of winning control
the house's November President Trump claims of what was rigged. >> Trump posted on social media blaming the results of the election on mail-in ballots, which he claims without any evidence, tilted the results of the election. Trump has often framed mail-in ballots as a fraudulent part of the election process and claims that the U.S. is the only country that uses mail ballots, neither of which is true.
Trump accused the language of the Virginia referendum of being "disceptive." He said he is, quote, "an extraordinarily brilliant person and even he did not understand the referendum." The president suggested that the courts could get involved in the results of the election. Virginia's Supreme Court was already set to consider challenges to the redistricting efforts.
Deepishivaram and Pierre News, the White House. >> This is in PR news. A massive emergency response in Denmark two trains collided this morning north of Copenhagen photo show the front end of the train smashed, so both remained upright on the tracks. It's not clear how many people were injured.
Authorities say Wednesday's chemical leak at a plant in West Virginia killed two people in St. more than 20 others to area hospitals. Emergency officials say workers were preparing to shut down at least a part of the facility when the leak occurred causing a violent chemical reaction.
A tech billionaire has donated more than $100 million to one of the most visited museums
in the United States, and Pierre's Netto Ulibi reports a gift is intended to loan art owned by the National Gallery in Washington, DC to smaller museums around the country. >> This gift comes that a challenging moment for American museums, tourism is down, federal funding has been cut and ever since President Trump started targeting museums as, quote, "the last remaining segment of woke corporations have been cautious about philanthropy."
But now, the National Gallery has announced that a wealthy art collector in entrepreneur named Mitchell P. Rails, who used to run its board of trustees, will help some of the museums
“most important works, be seen at regional museums starting next year.”
The National Gallery owns nearly 200,000 works of art, including major pieces by the likes of Claude Monet and George O'Keefe. The cost of shipping and churning and installing such art are staggering, but bringing these works to museums across the U.S. can help draw local visitors and support. Netto Ulibi and Pierre News.
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