RFK JR.: “I don’t think people should take medical advice from me.”

The IDF has issued an evacuation warning for Palestinians in several schools and a hospital in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, saying that Hamas is exploiting the civilian sites for terror. “Due to the Hamas terror organization exploiting civilian areas for terror activities, as shown in the attached image, the IDF will attack the area with great force,” warns the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, Col. Avichay Adraee.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he will hold up all Department of Justice nominations on the Senate floor until he gets more answers about the free Air Force One replacement that President Donald Trump says would be donated by Qatar. Trump said this week that he wants to accept the $400 million plane, and that it would later be donated to a presidential library. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Monday that the details of the donation are still being worked out.

BREAKING: According to ABC News, Minneapolis and state officials are reportedly bracing for a possible pardon of Derek Chauvin.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signs a defense cooperation agreement between the United States and Qatar.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. An estimated 80,000 people died from overdoses last year, according to provisional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday. That’s down 27% from the 110,000 in 2023. The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the agency’s National Center for Health Statistics. All but two states saw declines last year, with Nevada and South Dakota seeing small increases. Some of the biggest drops were in Ohio, West Virginia and other states that have been hard-hit in the nation’s decades-long overdose epidemic.

After arriving in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, President Donald Trump indicated he was ready to hold talks with Ahmed al-Sharaa, a onetime high-ranking member of both al-Qaeda and ISIS, who now leads Syria following the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in December.
President Trump announced his willingness to lift economic restrictions that had long targeted Syria. According to officials, Sharaa had been eager to secure a meeting with Trump, offering sweeping incentives including energy agreements with the U.S., diplomatic recognition of Israel, and even permits for a Trump Tower project in Damascus. The White House confirmed that Sharaa was expected to fly into Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to sit down with the president.

The United States is weighing reviving a controversial arms deal with Turkey, and Israeli officials are raising quiet but pointed objections to the possible sale of advanced F-35 stealth fighter jets to a government they now view with growing suspicion—and no small measure of alarm. According to senior Israeli officials, Jerusalem has conveyed diplomatic messages to the Trump administration opposing any move to approve the sale, citing concerns over the erosion of Israel’s qualitative military edge in an increasingly volatile region. The messages, which have not been made public, reflect mounting unease within Israel’s security establishment as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey sharpens his rhetoric against the Jewish state.