🇺🇸⚡️ — U.S. senators reached a deal to end the 40-day government shutdown by advancing a Republican stopgap bill to fund the government through January.

➡️ A few Democrats agreed after securing a December vote on ACA subsidies, though without a guaranteed extension.

➡️ The deal still requires House passage and President Trump’s approval.

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🇺🇸📞🇱🇧❌🇱🇧 — The U.S. has offered to support the Lebanese Army in implementing a stalled plan to disarm Hezbollah and other groups, according to Bloomberg.

➡️ The proposal was made during meetings with President Joseph Aoun, as Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets persist in southern Lebanon.

➡️ Beirut insists the plan can proceed only if Israel halts its attacks.

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🇸🇾❌🏴 — NEW: Syrian officials tell Reuters that two recent Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa were foiled.

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🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇱🇧 — Israel is pressuring the Lebanese Army to search private homes in southern Lebanon for Hezbollah weapons, claiming the group is rearming, according to Reuters.

➡️ Lebanon has refused, warning that such actions could spark civil unrest and escalate into a new conflict.

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🇺🇸✈️⚠️ — Over 2,100 U.S. flights were canceled Sunday, the highest number since shutdown-related cuts began, alongside around 7,000 delays.

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🇺🇸❌🏴💊 — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the U.S. conducted "lethal kinetic strikes" on two suspected drug-trafficking vessels in the Eastern Pacific, resulting in the killing of 6 male "narco-terrorists."

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🇸🇩❌🇸🇩❗️ — NEW: Eyewitnesses and survivors told Sudan Tribune that the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces are holding more than 50,000 civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur’s capital, preventing them from leaving the city.

➡️ The RSF confiscated Starlink satellite internet devices and mobile phones to cut off communication with the outside world.

➡️ Three survivors who escaped to Tawila, about 56 km southwest of El Fasher, told Sudan Tribune that detainees are being held at the land port east of the city, Al-Rashid dormitory and El Fasher University, the Saudi Hospital, and a site in the Awlad al-Reef neighborhood. Thousands more are gathered in Garni, which the RSF previously designated as an assembly point for displaced civilians.

➡️ The survivors also said RSF members forced detainees, especially young men, to record ransom videos and voice messages sent to families via RSF phones, demanding payments between 5 million and 100 million Sudanese pounds for their release.

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🇺🇸🤝🏳️‍🌈 — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to reconsider its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, rejecting an appeal from former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who had refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

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🇸🇾🇺🇸⚡️ — Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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🇮🇳⁉️ — India Today reports that Delhi Police hasn't ruled out terrorism in the car explosions near Delhi’s Red Fort.

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🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾❌🏴 — NEW: A Pentagon official told Al Jazeera that Syria will join the international coalition against ISIS.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ — Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is leading negotiations in Israel to arrange safe passage for 150–200 Hamas fighters trapped in IDF-controlled territory in Gaza, in exchange for them surrendering their weapons, according to the Associated Press.

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🇺🇸🇸🇾⚡️ — A Pentagon official told Al Jazeera that there is "no truth" to the Reuters report on the U.S. intending to deploy forces at an airbase in the Damascus area.

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🇨🇭❌🏳️‍🌈 — The International Olympic Committee is set to ban all transgender athletes from female events after a "science-based review of evidence about permanent physical advantages of being born male."

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