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The Biden administration kept President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration closely apprised of its efforts to broker the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah that took effect early Wednesday, according to the outgoing Democratic administration. Trump’s team, meanwhile, was quick to spike the football and claim credit for the rare spot of good news for a Democratic administration that’s been dragged down by the grinding Mideast conflict. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “Everyone is coming to the table because of President Trump,” Florida Rep.

JERUSALEM — Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants began a ceasefire Wednesday in a major step toward ending nearly 14 months of fighting as a region on edge wondered whether it will hold. Some celebratory gunshots could be heard in parts of Beirut’s southern suburbs, battered over the past two months, but no immediate violations of the ceasefire were reported. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Israel has said it will attack if Hezbollah breaks the agreement, and an Israeli military spokesman, in an Arabic-language X post in the first half-hour of the ceasefire, warned evacuated residents of southern Lebanon to not head home yet, saying the military remained deployed there. Read More: Will a Hezbollah-Israel Ceasefire Last? The ceasefire calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border.

MEXICO CITY — President Claudia Sheinbaum suggested Tuesday that Mexico could retaliate with tariffs of its own, after U. S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% import duties on Mexican goods if the country doesn’t stop the flow of drugs and migrants across the border. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Sheinbaum said she was willing to engage in talks on the issues, but said drugs were a U.

LAS VEGAS — Shedeur Sanders fits Sin City like a sequin glove. “When you look at our options for next year, hands down, he is the No. 1 pick in my opinion,” Patrick Brannon, a Raiders fan from Jamestown, Tenn., told me Monday morning outside the Raider Image team store at Mandalay Place. “We need some help.

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