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Manu Raju has been talking to GOP lawmakers who are worried about there being no definitive plan to address rising health care costs over tax credits.

Settlers' MP says ‘no moral justification’ for keeping Jews in prison, including killers of the Dawabsheh family and teenager Mohammed Abu Khdeir

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America in the latest escalation of military firepower to a region.

<article data-history-node-id="430748" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-demands-170m-fine-owner-seized-israel-linked-ship" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iran-demands-170m-fine-owner-seized-israel-linked-ship" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Iran demands $170m fine from owner of seized Israel-linked ship</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Iran has demanded a $170m fine from the owner of a cargo ship that it seized in Gulf waters last year and accused of having ties to Israel, a judicial official said on Tuesday.</p> <p>The Revolutionary Guard&nbsp;intercepted the MSC Aries in April 2024 and detained its 25 international crew members.</p> <p>At the time, the official IRNA news agency said the Portuguese-flagged vessel was "managed by Zodiac, which belongs to the Zionist capitalist Eyal Ofer".</p> <p>On Tuesday, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said charges had been filed and the case was before the courts, though no date had been set for a trial.</p> <p>"A fine of $170m has been demanded against its owner, of Israeli origin, accused of financing terrorism," Jahangir said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430755" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-fifty-bodies-recovered-gaza-city-grave-most-unidentified" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-fifty-bodies-recovered-gaza-city-grave-most-unidentified" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Report: Fifty bodies recovered from Gaza City grave, most unidentified</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Khalil Abu Alrish, director of Civil Defence operations in Gaza City, said most of the recovered bodies buried in a makeshift grave last year after Israel besieged al-Shifa Hospital can't be unidentified, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>Alrish said a search is underway and the rescue team “have recovered more than 50 dead bodies" so far.</p> <p>He said there are “no identification tools”, such as DNA analysis equipment, so authorities will be forced to distinguish each unidentified body with a unique code before burying them in a “special cemetery”.</p> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="430729" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-bar-turkish-armed-forces-entering-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-bar-turkish-armed-forces-entering-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel to bar Turkish armed forces from entering Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has said his country will not allow Turkey to send troops to Gaza as part of the international force outlined in US President Donald Trump's ceasefire plan.</p> <p>At a news conference in Budapest, Saar cited&nbsp;Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's "hostile approach" to Israel, saying it is "not reasonable for us to let their armed forces enter the Gaza Strip, and we will not agree to that and we said it to our American friends".</p> </div> </div> </article>