Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, the politics behind the $8 billion paramount skydance merger just approved by the FCC. The president signs an executive order to combat homelessness by making it easier to forcibly put people in mental health

facilities.

And controversial private companies that run immigration detention centers could soon cash in

on a windfall from Republicans' new spending plan and the Trump administration's goal of boosting

deportations.

In terms of what the administration has publicly emphasized and prioritized,

we have not seen any meaningful new safeguards aimed at preventing abuse. Welcome to the News Hour.

In Israel today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's considering alternative options to ceasefire talks with Hamas.

That comes after Israel and the U.S. pulled their negotiating teams out of talks in Qatar yesterday.

And it echoes a statement by White House Special Envoy, Steve Whitkoff, who said Hamas was showing

what he called a lack of desire to reach a deal. Hamas says negotiations are set to resume next week.

But while leaving the White House today, President Trump suggested Israel's only option is to escalate the war.

It got to be to a point where you're going to have to finish the job.

So now we're down to the final hostages.

And they know what happens after you get the final hostages.

And basically because of that, they really didn't want to make a deal.

I saw that. So they pulled out

and they're going to have to fight. On the ground in Gaza, health authorities say nine more

Palestinians died of malnutrition in the past day. All told, officials say hunger has claimed

more than 120 lives since the start of the war, most of them children. This week, Israel showed

journalists what it says is aid piled up by the border waiting to be distributed by the United

Nations, but the UN says its operations are limited by Israeli military restrictions and looting.

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