Donald Trump's legal challenges also start our day's other news.

At his hush money trial in New York, a former tabloid publisher offered more details about burying stories in 2016

that could have hurt then candidate Trump.

David Pecker described the so-called catch and kill schemes,

one involving a former Playboy model who claimed she had an affair with Trump.

Also today, prosecutors said Trump violated a gag order

four more times.

That brings the total to 15.

The judge has not yet ruled on that matter.

The US and 17 other nations have issued a joint appeal for Hamas to release the

roughly 130 hostages still believed to be held by the group.

The statement insisted that, quote, the deal on the table to release the hostages

would bring an immediate and prolonged ceasefire in Gaza. Hamas said it would not be

influenced by the appeal. That comes a day after Hamas released an undated video of American

Israeli hostage Hirsch Goldberg Poland. Today the State Department said the

video underscores the urgency of reaching an agreement.

It is a high time that every hostage be released.

There has been a deal on the table that Hamas continues to move the goalposts for.

And so we would stress the dire circumstance and the dire importance for this to be done

and to be done so immediately.

Also today, a Hamas official told the Associated Press that the group would agree to a truce

if a Palestinian state is established.

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