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Farm aid frozen by the shutdown is due to be released to help farmers harvest their biggest

crop ever. Plus, a flurry of White House officials touched down in Israel to help shore up the

fragile ceasefire deal. The next 30 days are crucial because right now they're in the first stage of the

agreement, which was more of a prisoner and hostage exchange, but the U.S. wants to move to a second

stage of the agreement, which is even thornier. And how the bankruptcy of tween retailer Clare's

has sent lawyers and a judge down memory lane. It's Wednesday, October 22nd. I'm Caitlin McCabe for the Wall

Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories

moving your world today. We begin today with a journal exclusive, as we've learned that the Trump administration is planning to release more than $3 billion in aid to U.S. farmers that have been frozen as a result of the government shutdown.

According to administration officials, Trump directed the Agriculture Department to distribute the money from a fund that was used to bail out distressed farmers

during Trump's first term. Journal Agriculture reporter Patrick Thomas says it will help a sector

that has been grappling with the fallout from President Trump's trade war with China.

So American farmers are in a really tough position right now between low commodity prices for corn and soybeans and rising

costs for equipment, fertilizer, and other farmer needs. What they were really getting concerned

about during the government shutdown was that they were going to lose some of the funding for

traditional safety nets that these real crop farmers often

have. And that over the next 30 to 60 days, if Congress didn't reach a resolution here, they wouldn't

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