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Israeli hostages released as part of the cease fire agreement have begun to give accounts of their horrific ordeal at the hands of Hamas. But their stories are tinged with hope for the future.

In New Orleans to support her boyfriend Travis Kelce, the mega-star matched her game-day ’fit to the Chiefs’ game-day uniform.

The real lesson of DeepSeek is that America’s approach to AI safety and regulations — the concerns espoused by both the Biden and Trump administrations, as well as by many AI companies — was largely nonsense.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: When it came to the Gaza Strip, Trump’s thinking on Tuesday was so far outside the box that it was not clear he even knew there was a box.

Over the past few months, University of California officials have boasted that they have admitted the most racially diverse class ever to their sprawling system. Now they’re facing a lawsuit.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Soft power is out. Hard power is in. Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has demonstrated that he prefers to bludgeon, not bargain, his way to foreign policy goals.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The US relationship with Russia is at its worst since the Cold War. What went awry?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Experts say Donald Trump’s hard-line response to Gustavo Petro may have a chilling effect on other leaders in the region as they weigh their own actions.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose relationship was always the subject of mystery and psychodrama in the first Trump term, are at it again.

Two US companies teamed up to treat cancer patients using an unproven blood filter in Antigua, out of reach of American regulators. Then things took a tragic twist.

President Donald Trump has ordered federal prisons to house inmates who are transgender women in men’s facilities and halt medical treatments related to gender transition.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s pardon was not an obvious agenda item for Donald Trump. Here’s the inside story of how he was persuaded to free the Bitcoin pioneer.

Donald Trump has ordered that officials tasked with overseeing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across federal agencies be placed on administrative leave and that all initiatives be brought to a halt.

BRET STEPHENS: The most interesting detail of the Israeli and Hamas hostage and ceasefire deal isn’t in its terms, which mainly resemble what’s been on the table for months, it’s the way the deal was secured.

President Joe Biden kicked off his final week in office with a robust defence of his foreign policy, arguing in a speech that America had grown stronger on his watch and had ‘the wind at our back’.