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President Trump's mid-east envoy, Steve Whitkoff, remains in the region following talks with Israeli

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

As NPR's Aibatrawi reports,

Wittkoff is hoping to make progress toward another ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and to

address the spread of starvation in Gaza. Deaths from hunger have climbed this month in Gaza,

and the past 24 hours marked one of the deadliest in the war for people trying to seek aid.

Gaza's health ministry says more than 90 people were killed and 600 wounded while trying to get food.

Many of them shot dead trying to reach aid trucks entering Gaza near Israeli troops.

The White House says Whitkoff and U.S. ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee will meet with Palestinians in Gaza

and visit a food distribution

site run by U.S. contractors there. The U.N. says hundreds of people have been killed by

Israeli forces trying to reach food at these sites since late May, and it's calling for much more

aid to flood Gaza to be distributed through them and other aid agencies.

Ayabatrawi, M. Pierre News.

President Trump has signed an executive order that imposes new tariffs on dozens of countries beginning August 7th. Tariffs on U.S. imports from Canada are being raised from 25% to 35% beginning today.

Trump accuses the Canadian government of being uncooperative on helping

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