The story of how Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire in Gaza stretches back over more than a year. The timing and unlikely partners who coalesced to push negotiations ...

Witkoff, who is Jewish and who has been friends with Trump since the 1980s when he bought Trump a sandwich after they worked on a real estate transaction, has no Middle East diplomatic experience.

Emily Damari makes emotional first comments as she is among first hostages released by Hamas under Gaza ceasefire deal while 90 Palestinian prisoners are also freed from Israeli jails ...

President-elect Trump meets with Scott Turner, his nominee to lead HUD. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The day after Donald Trump won office, the mood at a Miami real-estate conference was ...

Sunday’s call between Biden and Netanyahu came as the head of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency, David Barnea, and Biden’s top Mideast adviser, Brett McGurk, were both in the Qatar ...

The official events are financed by Trump’s inauguration committee, which is chaired by longtime Trump allies Steve Witkoff, a real estate developer who is Trump's pick to be his Middle East ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Voting along party lines, the U.S. Senate buried impeachment proceedings targeting the Jewish Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas. All 51 senators caucusing with ...

Peter Aitken is a Newsweek Politics Editor based in New York. His focus is domestic U.S. politics, but he has experience covering Foreign Affairs, Business and Technology. Peter joined Newsweek in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday tapped billionaire professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon to be ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland. The president-elect is renewing unsuccessful calls he made during his first term for ...