"President Trump wants to alleviate suffering for the people of Gaza because he has a humanitarian heart. He announced a new aid plan today to help Gazans obtain crucial access to food – details are forthcoming," White House deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said in a comment to ABC News.

CHINA TRADE TALKS: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, meanwhile, are meeting with Chinese officials in Stockholm for another round of trade talks ahead of an Aug. 12 deadline for steep tariffs on both U.S. and Chinese goods to go into effect.

President Trump said today that the U.S. would do more to help the starving population in Gaza. After a meeting in Scotland with Britain’s prime minister, the president criticized the aid distribution effort his administration has backed in Gaza and said he wanted to create more easily accessible food sites.

The Israeli government is defending a top military officer who dismissed images of starving Palestinians as “fake” over the weekend, despite President Trump stating Monday that he believes the pictures are real.

Long-term trends in this once strongly pro-Democratic group are hard to discern, but right now all the buzz is about Zohran Mamdani.

President Trump on Monday said he was moving up a deadline for Russia to make peace with Ukraine before facing further possible sanctions. CBS News White House reporter Willie James Inman has more on that and Mr.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he terminated Jeffrey Epstein’s membership at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida two decades ago because Epstein repeatedly “stole people that worked for me” — a new explanation for the fallout between the two men who were once friends.

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