As members of the cabinet met at the White House to celebrate the beginning of the end of the war in Gaza, a product of the peace deal that Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised as “a historic moment in the history of our country,” the Senate prepared to vote.

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His appetite for territorial expansion has not waned. Before he even returned to the White House, Donald Trump set his sights on the Panama Canal and then resource-rich Greenland. Now, the president who once railed against foreign entanglements wants to acquire some of the most disputed geography in the world.

John Ondrasik couldn’t stomach what was happening in his neighborhood. After the horrifying Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, his usually quiet community in Thousand Oaks, Calif., erupted. In the early aftermath of the attacks, Ondrasik would often drive by a street corner near his house where dueling Israel-Hamas war protests were raging every day.