julie banderas is in for harris. julie: a fox news alert. hostage deal finally reached. hamas set to release some of the nearly 240 people it is holding hostage. we are nearing the 50-day mark in the war between israel and hamas. this is a special edition of the faulkner focus. i m julie banderas in for harris today. some provisions of the deal. the release of 50 women and children held by hamas reportedly including three americans. those hostages in exchange for 150 women and children held by israel. the releases are set to be in phases spanning a four-day pause in fighting. israel will allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into gaza during this break. hamas officials say the truce starts tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. local time. 3:00 a.m. in the u.s. three americans are reportedly among the hamas hostages included in the deal. one of them a 3-year-old named abigail. hamas murdered both her parents in the october 7th massacre. she turns four on friday. meantime israeli prime m
the bowels of history where it belongs. since the supreme court drafted vision over attain roe v. wade was leaked earlier this week, national republicans we saw there have been testing out there abortion ban messaging. we had former vice president mike pence reading from the approved notes, but should the supreme court and up overturning roe, as the indicates a lead. the decision on whether abortion will become a crime will be made at the state level, that is where the animated face of the antiabortion crowd will be making future reproductive decisions for hundreds of, hundreds of millions of americans. you have people like ohio state representative jean schmidt, who s proposing a total ban on abortion including in instances of rape. rape is a difficult issue. but if a baby is created, it is a human life, and whether that mother and that pregnancy or not, the scars will not go
to defend the law, the affordable care act. because they are not doing that, because jeff sessions and donald trump actually ordered the lawyers at the department of justice to no longer defend the aca, and in fact removed those lawyers from the case, we as democratic ags have had to step in to defend the constitutionality of the law. and fundamentally, this is about people. we talk about the law, and it s important and the cases in court. but chris, i m here and my colleagues are here because this is about people s lives. you know, through the aca, hundreds of millions of americans have access to health care coverage. in the state of massachusetts alone, more than 300,000 have access through expanded medicaid. another 2.5 million folks are covered here with preexisting conditions. all of that is now at risk, and it is my hope that this court rules the right way, but certainly it s a matter that s probably going to head to the supreme court, and we will be there the whole way. here i
repeal it no less than 70 times. it s really sad that we are back in court today, and especially so because the u.s. department of justice isn t doing its job. the justice department has a constitutional duty, obligation to defend the law, the affordable care act. because they are not doing that, because jeff sessions and donald trump actually ordered the lawyers at the department of justice to no longer defend the aca, and in fact removed those lawyers from the case, we as democratic ags have had to step in to defend the constitutionality of the law. and fundamentally, this is about people. we talk about the law, and it s important and the cases in court. but chris, i m here and my colleagues are here because this is about people s lives. you know, through the aca, hundreds of millions of americans have access to health care coverage. in the state of massachusetts alone, more than 300,000 have access through expanded medicaid. another 2.5 million folks are
it is cute. you could say former president h.w. bush is looking rather aerodynamic these days as in he doesn t have much hair. his new look is our favorite story of the day. it really is. president bush shaved his head in support of the young son of one of his secret service agents. the youngster named patrick is battling leukemia and is losing his hair as a result. the 89-year-old former president got the idea to get his head shaved as he saw members of his secret service detail doing the same thing. nice going, mr. president, and all the best to patrick. that is cute, huh? really is. really is my favorite story of the day. i almost picked a different one. but i m glad i went with this one instead. this one is great. just kind of a little background here for you. apparently former president bush and his wife barbara lost their second child then 4-year-old robin bush to leukemia, 60 years ago. makes sense why he would do this. sure does. coming up, imagine a town where ev