A major shakeup affecting how the United States conducts foreign policy is underway as President-elect Donald Trump unveils more cabinet picks and other administration posts. Families of Israeli hostages are watching the incoming administration closely.

Hamas issued a generic statement calling for an end to violence against Palestinians in November, but it has said something similar several other times this year.

Anyone who voted against Kamala Harris last Tuesday to protest the Biden-Harris administration’s policy on the war in Gaza may soon feel the pangs of buyer’s remorse. The first qualms might have come on Friday,