U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has declined to bring the House into session next week, meaning that the government shutdown will continue until at least October 14th, unless the Senate is able to successfully pass the House-passed Clean Continuing Resolution (CR).

Hamas has agreed to release all remaining Israeli hostages, alive and dead, under the terms of U.S. President Donald J. Trump's 20-point comprehensive proposal to end the fighting in Gaza, while signalled readiness to immediately enter mediated negotiations to discuss the details, according to Reuters.

Traders on Polymarket are still somewhat doubtful of Hamas and Israel’s intent to end the fighting soon in the Gaza Strip, despite an apparent breakthrough in negotiations aided by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, with Polymarket’s betting market predicting only a 48% chance, down roughly 27%, that a ceasefire will go into effect before the end of 2025.

Full response by Hamas to U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s 20-point ceasefire and peace proposal to end the fighting with Israel in the Gaza Strip:

“Hamas appreciates the Arab, Islamic, and international efforts, as well as the efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump, calling for stopping the war on the Gaza Strip, exchanging prisoners, immediate entry of aid, rejecting the occupation of the Strip, and rejecting the displacement of our Palestinian people from it.

Within this framework and to achieve the cessation of war and full withdrawal from the Strip, the movement announces its approval to release all occupation prisoners, alive and dead, according to the exchange formula mentioned in President Trump's proposal, and providing the field conditions for the exchange process. In this context, the movement confirms its readiness to immediately enter negotiations through mediators to discuss the details.

The movement also renews its approval to hand over the administration of the Gaza Strip to a Palestinian independent technocratic authority based on Palestinian national consensus and relying on Arab and Islamic support.

As for other issues mentioned in President Trump's proposal related to the future of the Gaza Strip and the authentic rights of the Palestinian people, these are linked to a comprehensive national position based on relevant international laws and resolutions, and will be discussed through a comprehensive Palestinian national framework in which Hamas will participate and contribute responsibly.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump recording a response from the Oval Office to Hamas’ decision earlier to accept his 20-point peace agreement to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Sean “Diddy” Combs, aged 55, has been sentenced to fifty months, or just over four years, in a federal prison for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump calls for Israel to immediately halt further strikes against the Gaza Strip, following today’s positive response by Hamas to his 20-point peace proposal, stating that “This is not about Gaza alone, this is about long sought PEACE in the Middle East.”

A Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) has been issued for Munich International Airport in Southern Germany, following tonight’s unidentified drone sightings, with the airport expected to reopen around 5:00am CEST.

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican, aged 37, was killed earlier today near the frontline in the Donetsk Oblast of Eastern Ukraine, as a result of a Russian drone strike, which also reportedly injured Ukrainian journalist Heorgiy Ivanchenko.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved military operations against two vessels last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and Palestinian supporters, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, according to American intelligence officials who spoke with CBS News.

Officials state that between September 8-9, the Israeli Navy launched drones from a nearby submarine that had been following the flotilla, dropping incendiary devices on both the Portuguese-flagged vessel Family and the British-flagged vessel Alma, while both boats were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said in the Mediterranean Sea, over a thousand miles away from the Gaza Strip and Israel.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump: “I appreciate that Israel has temporarily stopped the bombing in order to give the Hostage release and Peace Deal a chance to be completed. Hamas must move quickly, or else all bets will be off. I will not tolerate delay, which many think will happen, or any outcome where Gaza poses a threat again. Let's get this done, FAST. Everyone will be treated fairly!”

For days and weeks after this took place, Israeli accounts and officials denied that an attack occurred, instead claiming that the “incendiary devices” dropped on the ships were actually just misfired flares by members of the flotilla, claiming that it was a “False Flag” to blame Israel.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, announced Saturday that F-35A Lightning lls with the Royal Norwegian Air Force will arrive at airbases in Poland on October 6th. The F-35s will work alongside fighter jets from the Polish and Dutch Air Force to secure Poland’s Airspace for several weeks as part of NATO Operation Eastern Sentry.

During an interview Saturday with Axios’ Barack Ravid, U.S. President Donald J. Trump said that they are close to a peace deal in Gaza, with hopes that it will be finalized in a few days. “I said, 'Bibi, this is your chance for victory.' He was fine with it. He's got to be fine with it. He has no choice. With me, you got to be fine,” Trump said regarding conversations he had about a potential peace deal alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with him adding, “Bibi took it very far and Israel lost a lot of support in the world. Now I am gonna get all that support back.”

According to an exclusive report by the Minnesota Star Tribune, the White House’s Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, Anthony Salisbury, was caught casually exchanging messages over Signal in a crowded, public space last weekend in Minnesota, discussing with a senior advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other high-level officials in the Trump Administration, the possibility of deploying the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, instead of the National Guard, to Portland, Oregon. At one point in the conversation, Salisbury typed out a question to Hegseth’s senior advisor Patrick Weaver, asking: “82nd is part of this trained element you guys have been building for this very [thing] right?”

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are on their way to Cairo in the hopes of finalizing the technical details of the hostage release by Hamas and to discuss a lasting peace deal with mediators from Egypt, Israel, and Qatar, according to a White House official who spoke to Axios.

A swarm of unidentified drones that caused the closure of Munich International Airport in Southern Germany overnight on Thursday and Friday, as well major disruptions at other airports and military sites in Frankfurt and throughout Germany, have been determined by the Bundeswehr to have been “military-grade reconnaissance drones” launched and flown by an unknown actor, according to a classified report seen by BILD.

At least two commercial flights bound for Vilnius International Airport in Southeastern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus, are currently diverting for an unknown reason to Riga in Latvia.