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On Friday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that it’s time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be willing to give ground in talks with Hamas and that if a deal in Gaza is struck, “it will also shape the way in which Israel views the nature of its retaliation on Iran.” After Krishnamoorthi stated that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar increases the likelihood of a hostage deal because Sinwar changed his demands in negotiations, Host Jim Sciutto asked, “[T]here were also times in the negotiations when U.S. negotiators felt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was...

On Friday night, a judge dismissed former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against CNN in which the current 2024 front-runner for the Republican nomination claimed CNN’s coverage of his election lies equated him to Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Judge Raag Singhal, a Trump-appointed judge, ruled that CNN referring to Trump’s claims about the election being stolen as “The Big Lie” did not meet the criteria for defamation despite Trump’s belief to the contrary. "There is no question that the statements made by CNN meet the publication requirement for defamation under Florida law," Singhal wrote. "The next question is whether the...