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US envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff met Saturday in Ibiza, Spain, with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani to discuss a plan for ending the war in exchange for the release of all hostages held by the Hamas terror group. According to the report, the developing proposal includes a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, the release of all hostages, the disarmament of terrorist organizations, the expulsion of senior Hamas officials abroad, and the establishment of a professional government under the supervision of a police force. An Israeli official familiar with the deals of the...

President Trump’s lawyers requested a meeting with US Attorney General Merrick Garland over unfair treatment by Special Counsel Jack Smith. In a letter sent to Garland, Trump’s lawyers said unlike Joe Biden and his son Hunter, President Trump is “being treated unfairly.” “We represent Donald J. Trump, the 45′ President of the United States, in the investigation currently being conducted by the Special Counsel’s Office. Unlike President Biden, his son Hunter, and the Biden family, President Trump is being treated unfairly,” the letter states, according to Fox News. No President of the United States has ever, in the history of...

Original title of story running on wide-circulation daily Mainichi Shimbun today here in Tokyo is: "米中間選挙：大統領支持率低迷で民主苦戦　ミシェル夫人「好感度」頼み" My summary translation follows (of the main points):

BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama was making a last-ditch attempt Sunday to save a Democratic-held Senate seat in Massachusetts - and an important 60th vote for his health care plan - as the top Senate Republican called the shockingly close race a verdict against the bill no matter who wins. "This is, in effect, a referendum on the national health care bill," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said. "It is perfectly clear if it's unpopular in Massachusetts, it's unpopular everywhere. The American people don't want us to pass this bill."

An unlicensed intravenous form of the antiviral drug Relenza saved the life of a woman with a severe illness resulting from infection by the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, British doctors reported today in the journal Lancet. Dr. Michael Kidd and Dr. Mervyn Singer of the University College London Hospitals were treating the virus, commonly known as swine flu, in a 22-year-old woman who had contracted it after undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease. The woman had increasing shortness of breath, build-up of fluid in both lungs and was progressively deteriorating. Physicians had given her Tamiflu and Relenza, which is normally given...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun control activists, health care advocates and law enforcement groups geared up on Tuesday for a last-ditch effort to prevent a 1994 ban on assault weapons from expiring next week, but even its most ardent backers acknowledge the drive is all but futile. But the influential National Rifle Association gun lobby, meanwhile, said it would "not take anything for granted" as it works to send the ban into oblivion. Ban advocates called on President Bush (news - web sites) to intervene and get Congress to act. But Bush, who in his 2000 campaign promised to sign legislation,...

Aide: Saddam Behind Last-Ditch Attempt To Stop War Purported Deal Said To Have Crumbled When U.S. Demanded Saddam Step Down POSTED: 5:53 p.m. EST November 7, 2003 UPDATED: 5:56 p.m. EST November 7, 2003 BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein personally initiated an attempt to reach a last-minute deal with Washington to avoid the U.S.-led invasion that ousted his regime, a former Iraqi government official said Friday. The official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said Iraqi officials had Saddam's "full consent" when they approached the United States with the deal, offering oil contracts for U.S. companies...

ESPN reported on Sportscenter that the Iowa State basketball coaches have been asked to clear out their offices and work from home for the time being.Reportedly the head coach Larry Eustachy who was under fire for partying with co-eds and having pictures of him in compromising position has until today to make an appeal on the University motion to fire him (that was sent to the Chancellor by the AD)

By ED McCULLOUGH, Associated Press WriterLAJES, Azores Islands - With no real hope of solving a diplomatic crisis on disarming Iraq (news - web sites) and time running out, U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and the prime ministers of Britain, Spain and Portugal flew to this mid-Atlantic island Sunday to decide a final strategy.   Even before the summit in the Azores archipelago located 1,450 kilometers (900 miles) off southern Europe's coast, officials on both sides of the Atlantic were pessimistic that any new resolution backing a U.S.-led war would garner approval at the U.N. Security...