The activist, a businessman who spearheaded Trump's outreach to the Arab-American community in the 2024 election, began engaging directly with Hamas over the last month via a communication channel with a senior Hamas official

The meeting took place before Trump's address to a summit between the U.S. and Gulf Arab countries in Riyadh, in which he said the U.S. was hopeful for change in the Middle East, including normalizing its relations with Syria

In 1897, Theodor Herzl envisioned a Jewish state at the First Zionist Congress in Basel. Now, the city hopes Israel – and its critics – won't overshadow this year's Eurovision Song Contest: 'Spirits don't run as high here as they do in France or Britain'