Palestinian militant group Hamas said it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal put forward by Qatar and Egypt to halt fighting with Israel in Gaza.

But there was no immediate official comment from Israel, which would be essential for any agreement to hold. Israel’s Channel 12 said Israel was studying the proposal.

The head of the Hamas ...Read more

NEW YORK — Columbia University is canceling its university-wide commencement next week, citing security concerns after weeks of campus protests over the war in Gaza, officials announced Monday.

Most school-level graduations will continue as scheduled, but any ceremonies planned for the main campus lawns — where an antiwar encampment ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dozens of pro-Palestine protesters arrested on college campuses in New York City last week were “unlawfully” jailed by the NYPD — and the Department of Investigation should launch a probe into the matter, the Legal Aid Society said Monday.

In a letter to DOI obtained by the Daily News, Legal Aid wrote that a review by its ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on France to help fend off a “new Cold War” as the European Union increasingly aligns with U.S. concerns over cheap imports and national security risks.

He told French President Emmanuel Macron the two nations should uphold mutual benefits, and jointly oppose decoupling and the disruption of supply chains...Read more

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Monday as the Israel military urged civilians to move out of the southern Gazan city of Rafah, according to U.S and Israeli officials.

Biden reiterated the U.S. opposition to a major ground offensive in the city, and urged Netanyahu to allow humanitarian deliveries through...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is facing tough critiques of its federal land policies and accusations of playing election year politics as it pushes stricter protections for U.S. lands and waters.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is set to return to the Hill on Wednesday to testify to the Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations ...Read more

Ex-prosecutor Nathan Wade Monday defended himself over the affair with Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis that threatened to derail the Georgia RICO election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

Breaking his silence over the affair, Wade insisted there was nothing particularly earth-shattering about the fact he ...Read more

MIAMI — When the Securities and Exchange Commission sued developer Rishi Kapoor in December, accusing him of defrauding investors in his real estate projects, the SEC’s lawsuit made no mention of his company’s consulting agreement with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez.

But that didn’t leave Suarez, who was not named as a defendant, entirely ...Read more

DETROIT — Over the weekend, vandals spray painted a Detroit building used by U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar for community events on Livernois Avenue in the city's University District, putting a red X through his photo and tagging exterior walls with the words "racist," "ceasefire" and "Free Palestine.”

Thanedar said some of the damage was done ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with jail time by Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan on Monday after being found in criminal contempt again for the tenth violation of a gag order in his hush-money case.

In his sternest warning yet, Merchan, in stunning courtroom remarks, said it appeared the $1,000 fines he has issued for Trump’s ...Read more

The stage is set for some space history to be made tonight as two veteran NASA astronauts aim to launch in a spacecraft that has never flown with humans before.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will climb aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule and lift off atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station�...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Democratic National Committee submitted briefs Monday against two election lawsuits brought by Republicans in Michigan courts, arguing the GOP was attempting to "undermine faith in our electoral system."

The filings spotlighted Michigan as a crucial battleground state, six months before the November election, and also ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Authorities were quick to respond when a massive cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, collapsing the span and killing six people, and several agencies promptly launched probes into the deadly disaster.

The 984-foot Dali weighed some 112,000 tons loaded with containers when it left the Port of ...Read more

Israel’s military has told civilians to move out of parts of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.

The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to ...Read more

President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s military to carry out combat drills involving tactical nuclear weapons, ramping up his confrontation with the West just a day before his inauguration for a fifth term.

The army will carry out exercises in southern Russia to “practice the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the ...Read more