{"id":167359,"date":"2025-10-09T03:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-a-note-a-whisper-and-the-first-phase-of-a-gaza-ceasefire-deal-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T03:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T03:16:49","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-a-note-a-whisper-and-the-first-phase-of-a-gaza-ceasefire-deal-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-a-note-a-whisper-and-the-first-phase-of-a-gaza-ceasefire-deal-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: a note, a whisper and the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire deal – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump announces \u2018first steps\u2019 to \u2018durable peace\u2019; Kristi Noem compares Antifa to MS-13. Key US politics stories from 8 October at a glance
It started with a whisper. Marco Rubio interrupted Donald Trump\u2019s roundtable event with conservative influencers discussing antifa, speaking quietly into Trump\u2019s ear. Rubio handed the president a note<\/a>, which read \u201cVery close. We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.\u201d
Soon afterwards Trump posted to Truth Social that the \u201cfirst phase\u201d of a peace plan to pause fighting and release some hostages and prisoners held in Gaza had been agreed by Israel and Hamas, bringing the best hope yet of a definitive end to a bloody two-year conflict.
\u201cThis means that ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their Troops to an agreed upon line as the first steps toward a Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace,\u201d Trump wrote.
Donald Trump hailed what he said was a \u201cgreat day\u201d for the Arab and Muslim world, Israel and all surrounding nations, as well as the US.
\u201cWe thank the mediators from Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey, who worked with us to make this Historic and Unprecedented Event happen. BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!\u201d he posted.
Hamas said on Thursday it had reached the agreement after talks on the proposal, confirming the deal includes an Israeli withdrawal from the enclave and a hostage-prisoner exchange.
Responding to the announcement, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: \u201cWith God\u2019s help, we will bring them all home.\u201d
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While Republican lawmakers lined up to praise Donald Trump<\/a> on Wednesday for brokering a tentative deal on the \u201cfirst phase\u201d of an agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the fighting in Gaza, and win the release of the remaining Israeli hostages, Palestinian American were more wary.
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The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem<\/a>, on Wednesday compared antifa to MS-13, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic State, calling the loosely affiliated network of antifascist street activists \u201cjust as dangerous\u201d as designated terrorist organizations during a White House roundtable discussion.
\u201cThey are just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA [Tren de Aragua], as Isis, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them, they are just as dangerous,\u201d Noem said. \u201cThey have an agenda to destroy us, just like the other terrorists we\u2019ve dealt with for many, many years.\u201d
The roundtable featured rightwing social media journalists such as Andy Ngo, Nick Sortor, Katie Daviscourt and others who cover leftwing protests.
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The deadlock over ending the US government shutdown deepened on Wednesday, with senators once again rejecting competing bills to restart funding as Democrats and Republicans remain dug in on their demands for reopening federal agencies.
The funding lapse has forced offices, national parks and other federal government operations to close or curtail operations, while employees have been furloughed. Signs of strain have mounted in recent days in the parts of the federal government that remained operational, with staffing shortages reported at airports across the US as well as air traffic control centers.
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The Internal Revenue Service will furlough nearly half of its employees \u2013 about 34,000 workers \u2013 due to the ongoing government shutdown.
In a statement on Wednesday, the IRS said that \u201cdue to the lapse in appropriations\u201d, it will begin its furlough on 8 October for \u201ceveryone except already-identified excepted and exempt employees\u201d.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday called for the imprisonment of Brandon Johnson, Chicago\u2019s mayor, and JB Pritzker, the Illinois governor, accusing them of failing to protect US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers.
\u201cChicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers!\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday morning. \u201cGovernor Pritzker also!\u201d Both Johnson and Pritzker are Democrats.
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The former FBI director James Comey pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday in connection with federal charges that he lied to Congress in 2020.
Comey entered the federal courthouse shortly before 10am through a private entrance. He was joined in court by his legal team, as well as his wife and daughter, Maurene, who was fired last month as a federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York. Troy Edwards Jr, Comey\u2019s son-in-law who resigned as a prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia immediately after Comey was indicted, was also seen at the courthouse.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Staffing shortages at US airports are anticipated to cause further disruption to air travelers on Wednesday<\/a><\/strong> as effects from the US government shutdown, now in its seventh day, ripple out across the country.
The US supreme court appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to a challenge brought by a Republican congressman to an Illinois law<\/a><\/strong> governing how the state counts mail-in absentee ballots received after election day.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened 7 October 2025<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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