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Joe Biden said Thursday there was "real progress" in talks for a ceasefire and hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, an agreement the US president is pushing for in his last days in office.

Trump's approval plummeted after the January 6, 2021, riot, but Biden's is on track to be lower when he leaves office.

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In public, Trump has decried the state of the nation as "a disaster" and "a mess." But at their private meeting, Trump praised him, Biden said. "He was very complimentary about some of the economic things I had done. And he talked about − he thought I was leaving with a good record."

Hamas has named 34 hostages, some of them believed to have died in captivity, who it says it would return to Israel in the first phase of an evolving if still elusive ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian militant group circulated the list to media outlets after Israel sent envoys to Qatar for fresh talks for a pause in the devastating war.

Now he tells us. In an interview published Saturday in the New York Times, Secretary of State Antony Blinken named the key impediment to a Gaza hostage deal: “Whenever there has been public daylight between the United States and Israel,

The U.S. State Department is warning Congress of its intention to sell $8 billion worth of weapons to Israel, multiple media outlets reported.

As the talks aimed at cementing a truce in Gaza between Israel and Hamas are ongoing efforts to achieve a host's deal is intensifying. In a press conference on Thursday, US President Joe Biden stated that real progress is being made in the talks for a ceasefire and a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

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