Reno Gazette Journal
PARTY CHANGES
As the 2026 midterm elections get closer, voter registration numbers for the Democratic and Republican parties continue to plummet in Nevada. The final 2025 numbers for active voters show Democrats lost 33,509 registered party members over past year...
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Trump threatens Insurrection Act in MN
President Donald Trump on Jan. 15 threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would give him power to deploy armed forces domestically, as tensions ratcheted up yet further in Minnesota following a second shooting involving a federal agent. The...
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7 Reno High students get guilty sentences
The punishment wasn’t what the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office wanted for the seven former Reno High students charged with gross misdemeanors after a senior prank turned into a rampage on May 22. Four avoided any jail time. Two were sentenced...
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Tens of thousands protest ICE in U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS – Native American dancers performed in a snow-covered park here, wearing traditional outfits. The smell of incense wafted through the air as an estimated 3,000 demonstrators shouted their displeasure with federal immigration agents. Across...
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Furor continues over ICE shootings
Tensions remained high Jan. 9 as shootings involving immigration agents in Minneapolis and in Portland, Oregon, drew protesters to the streets and deepened fractures between federal and state officials. h In Portland, a U.S. Border Patrol officer shot...
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A shot at vaccine policies
With the federal government revamping children’s vaccine recommendations, questions arise about how this might affect Nevada and what the state requires now. Jim O’Neill, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, formally...
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Jacobs Entertainment files permit for first soccer field
Plans for a downtown Reno youth sports association took the next step with the filing of a permit for a new soccer field. Jacobs Entertainment filed a grading permit with the city of Reno on Dec. 23, according to public records obtained by the Reno...
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Maduro’s tight grip on power ends
Nicolas Maduro ruled Venezuela with a heavy hand for more than 12 years, presiding over deep economic and social crises and resisting pressure from domestic opponents and foreign governments for political change. His rule abruptly ended on Jan. 3,...
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Tourism worries
As Nevada’s tourism industry struggles with a decrease in visitors, U.S. Customs and Border Protection put forward a proposal in December that could throw another wrench into the mix. Aimed at bolstering national security, the plan would put new...
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Study looks at climate change, asthma in kids
Better bike lanes, electric buses and more charging stations for electric cars – these are all ways cities can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. But for those who think curbing the planet’s warming is a lofty goal, two...
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Ultimate Rush ride taken down after nearly 30 years
Nearly three decades after it first towered over a corner of the former Reno Hilton, a longtime extreme thrill ride has finally come down to earth. The Ultimate Rush thrill ride was taken down at the Grand Sierra Resort to make way for a...
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Big events on calendar for 2026
As a new year dawns, many Americans are reflecting on 2025, a year marked by historic events including the inauguration of a president, the appointment of the first American pope, and major pop culture moments like the release of “Wicked: For Good” and...
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Experts expect economy to grow
A seesaw year for the U.S. economy in 2025 looks set to give way to a stronger 2026 thanks to tailwinds from President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, less uncertainty around tariffs, the ongoing artificial intelligence boom and a late-year run of...
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Bryant looks back at one year on the job
After a contentious start, Jackie Bryant officially marked her first year in the Reno city manager position. As the fourth city manager in 10 years, Bryant must lead the city through projected financial shortfalls, an ongoing housing crisis, a...
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Why is Las Vegas in a slump?
As Las Vegas’ economy goes, so goes Nevada’s. It’s simple mathematics because of the region’s size, accounting for 70% of the state’s population and a similar amount of its gaming and tourism business. And the math doesn’t look good. A new report by...
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Regenerative farming making a comeback
At Troon Vineyard, in southern Oregon’s Applegate Valley, Garett Long has turned composting into an art form, using it to support soil microbes and eliminate the need for petroleum-based fertilizers. h When Andrea Malmberg and her husband, Tony, bought...
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‘FORMIDABLE CHALLENGE’
LONDON – The West’s push to build a homegrown magnets supply chain to reduce its reliance on China – led by massive U.S. backing for Nevada-based MP Materials – is running into a critical problem: the scarcity of so-called heavy rare earth...
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Merry Christmas
There is no print edition of the paper today, but you can find today’s puzzles, comics, national news and sports here in the eNewspaper.
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‘DEEP CONNECTION’
The places Indigenous peoples call home have intertwined with their ways of life for millennia. Their stories, foodways and cultures relate directly to their homelands. Lands, waters, plants and animals, the creatures that inhabit the waters below and...
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FREQUENT FLYERS
Folks traveling through the Reno airport for the holiday season may want to avoid these four days — or at least be prepared for a crowd. Reno-Tahoe International Airport is expecting between 14,000 to 15,000 passengers daily on the following dates: h...
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Lake upgrades
The University of Nevada, Reno is upgrading Manzanita Lake and the adjacent grassy field with the goal of making the once hot spot on campus a bustling destination again. h A$7 million construction project includes structural and utility upgrades, but...
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Turning Point USA gains ground on campuses
Apair of students stood in the Indiana University Indianapolis student center asking a simple legal question: “Is ‘hate speech’ protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution?” Students slowed to read the white board, and many shuffled toward...
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States take up conservation goals terminated by Trump
WASHINGTON – With a snappy title and a laudable goal, “30 by 30” was a landmark plan hatched to help save at least 30% of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030. Alongside this multinational push, the United States had its own trailblazing version of...
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Enrollment climbs in charter schools
All but three public school districts across the state saw student enrollment drop this year, according to the data compiled by the Nevada Department of Education. Statewide enrollment in K-12 public school districts dipped by around 2% for the...
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Police arrest son in Reiners’ deaths
Police have arrested Nick Reiner, the son of actor-director Rob Reiner and his film producer wife, Michele Singer Reiner, following the deaths of the couple. Nick Reiner, a 32-year-old screenwriter, was taken into custody on Dec. 14, and is being held...
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Jacobs to demolish Bonanza Inn
Jacobs Entertainment is changing its plans for the Bonanza Inn, opting to demolish the West Fourth Street property instead of renovating it due to higher than expected costs. The demolition will allow for the development of a new and larger project at...
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Graduation rates fluctuate
It used to be easy to blame Clark County for Nevada’s place near or at the bottom of national education rankings. Now, the giant district — fifth-largest in the U.S. — has a higher graduation rate than the state and Washoe County. Clark County jumped...
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Private firms snap up mobile home parks
One of America’s most affordable paths to homeownership is slipping away. At manufactured home parks – sometimes called trailer parks or mobile home parks – rents are rapidly rising due to large-scale buyouts by private equity firms. Although private...
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‘Present for all of our teachers’
Under a new two-year contract for teachers, the Washoe County School District is giving raises, bonuses, stipends and 17 days of paid time off that no longer has to be claimed as sick leave. h Most teachers will get a 2% raise. Some in tough-to-fill...
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UNR works to keep local food business center operating
Federal funding for local food production was hit hard earlier this year when the Trump administration cut several agricultural programs supporting home-grown food and farm businesses. Despite those cuts, the University of Nevada, Reno says the local...
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Congress working on $901B defense policy bill
WASHINGTON – Lawmakers on Dec. 7 unveiled an annual defense policy bill authorizing a record $901 billion in national security spending next year, billions more than President Donald Trump’s request, and provides $400 million in military assistance to...
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‘The exploration of space must continue’
Fleischmann Planetarium is preparing for its largest upgrade in more than a decade, with renovations expected to begin in February 2026 and a tentative reopening in August. The project will replace the planetarium’s current projection system with a...
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Fire calls
How many calls does the Reno Fire Department respond to, which locations have the most calls and how fast do firefighters get there? A new public dashboard on the city of Reno’s website — updated hourly — answers those questions and many more. It’s...
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Watchdog: Signal chats violated Pentagon policy
WASHINGTON – A Pentagon watchdog found that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth risked the safety of American troops and their mission when he discussed a covert military operation in Yemen over the commercial messaging app Signal, but that he had the right...
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Safety grades vary by region
Nevada’s fall 2025 hospital safety grades show a clear divide between the northern and southern parts of the state, according to new ratings from The Leapfrog Group. The biannual grades evaluate hospitals on preventable harm, including infections,...
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HF Sinclair eyes Reno link in Western fuel plan
HF Sinclair Corp. is considering a major pipeline expansion that could link Reno to its Western fuel network, part of a broader effort to address tightening gasoline supplies and refinery shutdowns across California. Reno has a single pipeline for its...
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Trump doubles down on asylum freeze
President Donald Trump doubled down on his anti-immigration policies on Nov. 30, saying his administration’s pause on the processing of all asylum applications has “no time limit, but it could be a long time.” “We don’t want those people. We have...
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Special session leaves legislature hanging
Rank-and-file lawmakers, lobbyists and issue advocates repeatedly criticized the chaotic nature of a week-long special session that saw the demise of a Democratic-sponsored plan to publicly subsidize the film industry and the passage of Republican Gov....
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Unlawful businesses
Next door to Reno nail salons, convenience stores and restaurants, women are being trafficked in illegal brothels masquerading as massage parlors. They are called IMB’s in police lingo, for illicit massage businesses. “Massage parlors have been an...
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Trump vows further migrant crackdown
President Donald Trump said Nov. 27 that U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, of the West Virginia National Guard, died after being shot the previous day in an ambush near the White House, a shooting that drew claims from his administration of Biden-era...
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Inflation weighing on income growth
WASHINGTON – Inflation has helped set back income growth to levels comparable to the slow recovery from the Great Recession more than a decade ago, potentially constraining the spending power of consumers ahead of the critical holiday retail season,...
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Patient becomes the healer
This anniversary is an overwhelmingly grand milestone — a mix of poignant relief and gratitude for Reno’s Haley Carroll. “It feels like I am free,” Carroll said during a recent break from a shift as a pediatric oncology nurse at Renown Regional...
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AVOIDING
If you’re hosting friends and family for Thanksgiving, especially if you have guests of varied digestive and immune systems, you’ll want to take food safety to health inspection levels. h After all, nobody wants to be remembered as the host of that...
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Things to do in Reno-Tahoe
Thanksgiving passes the baton to Christmas this week. h Northwestern Nevada’s calendar is packed with holiday events the final week of November, with a pair of pre-Thanksgiving fun runs in Reno and Sparks, followed with two Christmas tree lighting...
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ANTI-MORMON SLURS AND VIOLENCE PERSIST
A day before a shooter killed four people and set fire to a Michigan church in September, students at a football game in Colorado chanted vulgar slurs against the same religious organization. The two events spurred sweeping conversations about the...
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Flight disruptions unlikely to ease soon
Air travelers across the United States continued to face challenges Nov. 11 with the Federal Aviation Administration planning to increase the percentage of flights cut at 40 major airports from 4% to 6%. And mandated flight cancellations plus some...
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Shutdown appears closer to ending
WASHINGTON – The longest-ever government shutdown is on the verge of ending, as food aid benefits are in limbo and flight cancellations and delays disrupt travelers. The U.S. Senate on Nov. 9 took the first big step toward voting on a bipartisan deal...
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Duffy: Air travel could slow to ‘trickle’
For a third day on Nov. 9, travelers found themselves glued to their phones and computers, tracking whether their flights were among the growing wave of government-mandated cancellations. Some disruptions and delays were reported during the first two...
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Shopping strain
As political wrangling over SNAP continues to hit millions of Americans hard, the uncertainty over the food assistance program is also causing headaches for retailers right before one of the industry’s busy shopping periods. Thanksgiving weekend is...
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NEXT-LEVEL DEDICATION
The proof of Max Ellinger’s Costco fandom is his only tattoo, inked on his right arm. It’s the Kirkland Signature logo – the Costco house brand for everything from rotisserie chicken to laundry detergent. Ellinger got it in 2019 after a friend...
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Every major road project in Reno-Sparks
Move over, death and taxes. If you live in Reno-Sparks, there’s a third certainty in life: road construction. Between the area’s growth and typical wear and tear on infrastructure, road work has become a familiar sight for many drivers in the...
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Democrats sweep off-year elections
President Donald Trump received a rebuke as Democrats swept every major contest on Nov. 4, which they hope foretells a nationwide backlash to Republican control in Washington in the pivotal 2026 midterm elections. The results represent the first...
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Beadles revealed as ‘Doe’ in GPS tracking case
The person behind the secret GPS tracking of Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve is Robert Beadles. The Washoe County Republican influencer confirmed his identity Monday evening to the Reno Gazette Journal. It was first reported on the 775Times Facebook...
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‘This year, the anniversary is hitting me hard’
Theresa Huston tells her son that on Dia de los Muertos, his grandmother leaves him a gift even though they have never met. “It’s the one day she can come back,” Huston tells the 6-year-old about the Day of the Dead, the Mexican celebration every...
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GROUND ZERO
President Donald Trump set off a flurry of questions with a recent social media post that puts Nevada squarely at the center of the ultimate hot button issue: nuclear testing. “Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the...
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Wildfire policies put in ‘sandbox’
A new Nevada law goes into effect Jan. 1 that creates a “sandbox” where insurance companies can experiment on wildfire policies over the next four years. “We are the first in the nation to offer this type of sandbox as it relates to wildfire,” state...
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Trump targets filibuster to end shutdown
WASHINGTON – As the shutdown drags on, President Donald Trump is urging Senate Republicans to go around Democrats to break an impasse with growing ramifications, with millions of Americans poised to lose federal food assistance. Trump called for an...
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‘Silver Belle’ heads to D.C.
Even a government shutdown can’t stop this year’s official Capitol Christmas tree — the first ever from Nevada — from getting to Washington, D.C. While many members of the U.S. Forest Service and the Nevada Air National Guard are without paychecks...
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SNAP benefits shutdown
More inside Free food available to those who lose SNAP benefits in November, have access, not just those on SNAP. About $40 million from state contingency and emergency accounts would fund the food insecurity plan, and the state’s Agriculture...
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‘WE WON’T BE TURNING ANYONE AWAY’
The Food Bank of Northern Nevada is bracing for 48,000 Reno-area residents to not receive federal food benefits as scheduled Saturday because of the government shutdown. “We are trying to do as much as we can to replace the food that people will be...
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Shutdown will affect SNAP benefits in Nov.
The 42 million Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will go without their benefits come Nov. 1 because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, according to a new message from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. SNAP,...
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Food banks brace for surge amid shutdown
WASHINGTON – Cynthia Kirkhart, the CEO of Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington, West Virginia, has already had to explain to customers this year why the organization is rationing bags of potatoes. The food bank has had to shrink its allotments as...
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‘We make it happen’
University of Nevada, Reno President Brian Sandoval had the proof when he said, “We don’t wait for the future to happen, we make it happen.” The 17th president of UNR laid out aggressive plans for the future in an hour-long State of the University...
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Persistent inflation up again in September
Inflation rose again in September, revealing the persistence of rising prices as the job market showed signs of cooling and consumers begin to think about the holiday season. h Consumer prices increased 3% from a year earlier, slightly up from 2.9% in...
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P3 funding to fuel Reno airport’s rental car center
Thirteen shovels propelled clumps of dirt through the chilly autumn air at Reno-Tahoe International Airport, their fancy gold color a contrast to the overcast skies above. For the Reno-Tahoe Airport Authority, the groundbreaking marks the start of its...
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No end in sight
The federal government shutdown is already one of the nation’s longest at 23 days with no end in sight, as Democrats and Republicans in Congress remain locked in a bitter stalemate. h The shutdown has placed 750,000 federal workers on furlough, forced...
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Work begins on Trump’s $250M ballroom project
Construction began on President Donald Trump’s new $250 million White House ballroom with workers demolishing part of the East Wing ahead of building a 90,000-square-foot addition, one of the biggest changes to the presidential residence in...
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UNR deal would build 400 apartments downtown
The University of Nevada, Reno is planning a new 400-unit apartment complex for faculty, staff and students on an empty 2.7 acre lot just south of campus. The housing project at 600 University Way — formerly 600 N. Center St. — is in downtown Reno...
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Reno’s No Kings rally draws 18,000
About 18,000 people attended the Oct. 18 “No Kings” rally in downtown Reno, according to organizers. Protesters marched from Reno’s federal building Saturday to City Plaza near the metal “Believe” structure to oppose what they consider overreach by...
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TOURISM DECLINING ACROSS NEVADA
The throaty roar of classic car engines filled the air as a long line of chrome and candy-colored Americana drove through the Reno Arch just before sunset in early August. For the thousands of drivers and spectators who flock to the Biggest Little...
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Shutdown continues
Members of Congress remain at loggerheads over how and when to reopen the federal government, and Americans in both red and blue states are beginning to take notice. “It’s a lot of antics going on in both parties,” said Scott Wickham as he walked amid...
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NDOW getting more calls about bears
As temperatures continue to drop and the Sierra Nevada gets its first significant snow of the season, hungry bears in the region are preparing for winter. They enter “hyperphagia, a natural phase when their appetites go into overdrive as they work to...
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2 Nevada airports won’t air Noem video
The two biggest airports in Nevada will not be airing a video about the government shutdown despite a request from a federal transportation agency, with both citing concerns over being accused of political advocacy and breaking federal law. h Harry...
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Company racks up alleged environmental violations
Nevada state regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of violating environmental regulations nearly 800 times in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.” The company’s...
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A ‘day of profound joy’
Israel celebrated the release of the remaining hostages taken by Hamas militants in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks as the first phase in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan was met with joy around the world on Oct. 13. Twenty Israeli hostages in Gaza were...
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