President Trump told CNN Hamas faces “complete obliteration” if the group refuses to cede power and control of Gaza, amid ongoing efforts to push forward his proposed ceasefire plan.

“Many American Jews sharply disapprove of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, with 61 percent saying Israel has committed war crimes and about 4 in 10 saying the country is guilty of genocide against the Palestinians,” according to a Washington Post poll.

“The findings are striking given the long-standing ties between the U.S. Jewish community and Israel, suggesting the potential for a historic breach over the Gaza war.”

“President Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Egypt this weekend to help complete a hostage release deal, U.S. and Arab officials said Saturday, after Hamas and Israel backed his 20-point proposal to end the war but with reservations that need to be ironed out,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The high-profile delegation shows Trump’s seriousness about securing a deal, despite significant concerns about the terms among all the parties involved. Kushner, the president’s son-in-law who played a crucial role in negotiating normalization accords between several Arab countries and Israel during Trump’s first term, helped craft the current plan and will now try to close the gaps and get it implemented.”

Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, alive or dead, under the terms of President Donald Trump’s Gaza proposal, and signaled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details, Reuters reports.

“President Trump ordered another lethal military strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean early Friday, signaling the administration is undeterred by mounting legal questions about the campaign,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a social-media post that on Trump’s orders he had directed a ‘lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel.'”

Zachary Wolf: “Aside from the routinely expiring debt ceiling, the practice of government shutdowns may be the most dramatic, unique and objectively silly quirks of how Washington, DC, works.”

“Shutdowns cost the government billions of dollars, they interrupt the productivity of federal workers, and it’s just plain a bad look for the most powerful democracy on earth to see its government literally sputter.”

“The concept of a shutdown is essentially unheard-of in much of the rest of the world. In most forms of democratic government, a failure to keep the government functioning would lead to the establishment of a new government.”

“President Donald Trump said that Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal for Gaza by Sunday evening and threatened that the group will face more attacks if it doesn’t,” the AP reports.

Said Trump: “Every Country has signed on! If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”

French president Emmanuel Macron was seen laughing as the leaders of Albania and Azerbaijan mocked President Donald Trump for claiming to have ended wars involving their countries, the Daily Mail reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the potential supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine would mark a “completely new stage of escalation” between Washington and Moscow, CNBC reports.

His comments come after a series of reported incursions into European airspace in recent weeks.

“Hamas will demand key revisions to Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire proposal but is likely to accept the plan in coming days as a basis for renewed negotiations,” The Guardian reports.

The Trump administration isn’t ruling out launching military strikes inside Venezuela as it continues its campaign against drug cartels, Semafor reports.

“Greenland is seeking closer ties with the European Union after getting more financial support from the bloc, a rebuke to US President Donald Trump’s ambition to woo the Arctic territory,” Bloomberg reports.

“Taiwan has sought to ease public fears that its prized chip industry could be hollowed out following US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s call for semiconductor manufacturing to be evenly divided between the island and the United States,” the South China Morning Post reports.

“Taiwanese Vice-Premier Cheng Li-chun said on Thursday that Taiwan’s negotiating team had never promised Washington to evenly split chip production.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicted a “pretty big breakthrough” in the next round of trade talks with China, even as the Trump administration takes steps to marshal support for American farmers hurt by a decline in Chinese purchases, Bloomberg reports.

Britain had 66 enormous new American flags specially made for President Trump’s state visit last month — after U.S. officials complained the U.K.’s existing collection featured the wrong shade of red, the Daily Telegraph reports.

“The U.S. will provide Ukraine with intelligence for long-range missile strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure, American officials said, as the Trump administration weighs sending Kyiv powerful weapons that could put in range more targets within Russia,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“President Trump recently signed off on allowing intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to aid Kyiv with the strikes. U.S. officials are asking North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to provide similar support, these people said. The expanded intelligence-sharing with Kyiv is the latest sign that Trump is deepening support for Ukraine as his efforts to advance peace talks have stalled.”