The U.S. government shutdown heads into its third weekend with no budget deal on the horizon. The next Senate vote is expected on Monday, Oct. 20.

A US-brokered ceasefire in Gaza appears to have survived its first major test as Israel and Hamas affirmed their commitment to the deal after two Israeli soldiers were killed in the enclave on Sunday,

The U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in international waters against a suspected drug vessel, killing three alleged terrorists, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said.

Israel-Hamas ceasefire is tested, and Zelenskyy wants in on the Trump-Putin summit: Weekend Rundown Israel launched airstrikes on southern Gaza early Sunday in the first major test of its ceasefire with Hamas, as the two sides traded accusations of significant breaches of the deal brokered by President Donald Trump.

Venezuela's top ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, once again denounced the U.S. military strikes in Caribbean waters and urged the Trump administration to "stop this madness" during a press briefing with reporters at the U.N. on Thursday.

President Donald Trump said in a Sunday interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures that amid Ukraine ’s request for Tomahawk missiles from the United States in its ongoing war with Russia, “we have to remember one thing, we need them for ourselves too.”

Kremlin tyrant Vladimir Putin “is in a weak position” and fearful that the US will finally send Ukraine some Tomahawk missiles that can cut deep into Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky