Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, agreed to stop defaming two Georgia election workers he falsely accused of helping steal the 2020 election for Joe Biden as part of a legal settlement on Thursday.

The Gaza Strip ceasefire should begin on Sunday as planned, despite the need for negotiators to tie up a “loose end” at the last minute, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, and mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce’s start on Sunday.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth questioned Pete Hegseth on his knowledge of ASEAN, asking him to name a member, describe the U.S. agreement with them, and state how many nations are in the bloc.

Donald Trump’s nominees for top national security jobs said they would not prioritize their loyalty to the president-elect over their duty to the country in U.S. Senate hearings on Wednesday, where they appeared to be on a path to easy confirmation.

U.S. President Joe Biden warned on Wednesday in his farewell address that an American oligarchy is taking shape among a few tech billionaires who have amassed a “dangerous concentration of power.”

Firefighters on Wednesday confronted persistently strong and dry winds fueling two giant wildfires that have terrified Los Angeles for eight days, testing the resolve of a city upended by the worst disaster in its history.

Voting is under way in Vanuatu’s snap election, which is remarkably going ahead despite the turbulence of a severe earthquake one month ago.

The Pacific Islands Forum has deployed an Election Observer Mission to observe the Vanuatu snap election that will be held today.

Negotiators reached a phased deal to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, the U.S. and Qatar said, after 15 months of bloodshed that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and inflamed the Middle East.

President Joe Biden will cap his half-century political career on Wednesday with a final Oval Office speech, hoping to seal a legacy that has been overshadowed by Democrats’ failure to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House.

Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise – to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House.