IDF soldier Matan Angrest, age 21, was taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th. Now his mother, Anat Angrest, says she saw footage found by the IDF in Gaza, featuring her son.
Anat said: “I am considered fortunate among the hostage families because I received proof of life from Matan in a video found by our soldiers in Gaza,”
Describing the footage she saw, Anat said: “In the video, my son Matan is seen looking injured at the camera and addressing you, prime minister. He shouts, ‘Netanyahu, I don’t understand how this happened, but I trust you to get me out of here.’ How disappointed Matan must be, as the prime minister has not gotten you out of there, you were not mentioned at all in the first phase, and you are not being talked about in the next phase.

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President Biden, in both words and actions on Friday, made clear that he has little intention of quickly or quietly leaving the presidential race, issuing a blunt warning that if leading Democratic donors and elected officials want to alter his thinking, they are going to have to wage a protracted and public battle.
By the next day, that battle showed signs of intensifying.
Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.), who is in a competitive race and among the more endangered Democrats, on Saturday morning called on Biden to drop out of the race, saying “there is only a small window left to make sure we have a candidate best equipped to make the case and win.”

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President Biden’s campaign is facing criticism for sending pre-approved questions to radio hosts ahead of interviews, after radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders revealed on CNN that the president’s team provided a list of questions for approval prior to her interview with Biden on Wednesday. CNN host Victor Blackwell noted that the questions were “essentially the same” in both interviews, focusing on Biden’s accomplishments, debate performance, progress in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, and what he would say to voters considering not voting in the presidential election. “The questions were sent to me for approval. I approved them,” Sanders said.

A 49-second video clip shared by the Israel Defense Forces on Friday shows disturbing violence as Hamas terrorists use clubs to beat men who reportedly sought food from a warehouse filled with aid intended for civilians.
It begins with a blindfolded man, hands tied behind his back, sprayed with green paint that his captor uses to write Arabic letters on his back. A Hamas terrorist then strikes the captive in the head and yells at him.
“What happens when civilians try getting humanitarian aid in Gaza?” the IDF asked on X.

Bill Harris, a former chief executive of Intuit and PayPal, said he is leading a small group of Democratic donors who have pledged $2 million to help fund presidential debates among potential nominees if President Biden decides to step aside.
The group of donors is pressing for an open competition for the Democratic nomination that would draw public attention if Biden drops out. The group is looking for robust debates rather than merely coalescing around Vice President Harris or another nominee, according to Bill Harris, who declined to name the other donors.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has lashed out at State Prosecutor Amit Aisman, in response to an investigation into three Israeli civilians who were detained on suspicion of killing a Palestinian man on October 7 and stealing weaponry from Israeli troops. “The state attorney who started working to investigate me on suspicion of ‘incitement’ against the residents of Gaza, is also the one who ordered the crazy investigation against three heroic fighters who on October 7 went out to fight in the hell of the Gaza border area — and are now suspected by Aisman of ‘murdering’ a Nukhba terrorist,” Ben Gvir said in a statement.

Another fast-moving wildfire has broken out in California, this time near a gateway town to Yosemite National Park, prompting mandatory evacuations and a temporary road closure.
The French Fire started Thursday evening at French Camp Road in Mariposa county after a heat wave brought days of scorching temperatures. As of 1:14 p.m. local time Friday, the fire had spread to 843 acres and was 15 percent contained, according to Cal Fire’s Madera-Mariposa-Merced unit.
Some of the 1,100 residents forced to evacuate were allowed to return home Friday afternoon. Also on Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) secured a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, making it the second infusion of funds California has received this week to fight wildfires.