The top American and Russian diplomats met for the first time since February on Thursday. Secretary of State Rubio said he and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed a “new and a different approach” toward peace.

The Donald Trump administration is using the Canary Mission’s website to target foreign students with deportation. The Canary Mission is an anonymous database that uses McCarthyite tactics against people expressing pro-Palestine views or criticism of Israel.

US officials ignored dozens of objections and waived several required safeguards to rush millions of dollars to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Amnesty International has labeled the GHF a tool of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

A week after the Pentagon paused some weapons shipments to Ukraine due to supply constraints, the US resumed transfers of artillery shells and rockets to Kiev.

The Israeli government and High Court have maintained a prohibition on foreign journalists entering Gaza since October 7, 2023. The Israeli onslaught in Gaza has killed more than 230 Palestinian journalists.

Russian forces have carried out their largest aerial attack against Ukraine since the start of the war on Wednesday. Over 700 drones and a dozen cruise and ballistic missiles were fired at Ukraine overnight.

Israeli settlers attacked the West Bank town of Taybeh on Monday, causing extensive damage to a fifth-century church and a cemetery.

President Donald Trump is weighing whether to send yet another Patriot air defense system to Ukraine, even as US arsenals face critical shortages in some munitions. The Pentagon recently assessed that it has only 25% of the Patriot interceptors needed for its various battle plans.